About the roleYou'll own our day-to-day legal work and build the practices that support Allium as we grow. Your initial focus will be commercial contracts, data licensing, and technology transactions. Data rights are central to our business: permitted use, redistribution, derived data, and AI all shape what we can build and how we serve customers.
You'll work closely with our founders and leaders across Finance, Sales, Product, and Engineering, with outside counsel available for specialist matters and additional capacity. This role suits someone who enjoys personally drafting and negotiating agreements while building a legal function at a Series B startup. You'll have substantial ownership from the start and a direct role in how Allium builds products, structures partnerships, and serves customers.
What you'll do- Lead commercial contracting. Draft and negotiate enterprise customer agreements, data licenses, partnerships, and vendor contracts. Work with Sales and Finance to resolve issues and move deals through to signature.
- Shape our data and IP rights. Establish practical positions on data acquisition, permitted use, redistribution, derived data, AI use, and post-termination rights. Align supplier rights with the commitments we make to customers.
- Advise on products and partnerships. Work with Product and Engineering early on new offerings. Translate privacy, IP, and regulatory considerations into clear recommendations that help teams make decisions.
- Build legal operations. Develop templates, negotiation playbooks, approval guidelines, intake workflows, and a reliable contract repository. Use AI and automation thoughtfully, with appropriate confidentiality protections and human review.
- Coordinate broader legal needs. Partner with leadership and outside counsel on corporate governance, financings, employment matters, compliance, and other issues as they arise. Manage priorities, specialist support, and legal spend.
- Make obligations actionable. Help teams understand the commitments in our contracts and policies, and work with the right owners to put them into practice.
What we're looking for- Strong experience independently leading complex commercial negotiations for a technology, SaaS, financial data, or related business.
- Depth in data licensing or technology transactions, including IP rights, data use, confidentiality, liability, indemnification, and privacy provisions.
- Experience advising business teams directly, ideally in-house, and translating legal analysis into clear decisions and workable alternatives.
- A track record of building or improving legal templates, playbooks, and processes, with sound judgment about when to push and when to bring in specialist counsel.
- Clear writing, strong negotiation skills, and trusted working relationships with technical and commercial teams.
- Ownership and adaptability: you can manage competing priorities, follow through on details, and create structure while staying close to the work.
- A J.D. or equivalent legal qualification and active admission to a U.S. state bar, with eligibility to practice in-house in the role's location.
Experience that would be helpful- Working in a small legal team or helping build a legal function.
- Financial market data, fintech, payments, AI, or blockchain-related products.
- Selling to financial institutions or other sophisticated enterprise buyers.
- Privacy, product counseling, or public-sector contracting.
Don't take our word for it, what our customers say about us (https://www.allium.so/blog#love)What some cool people have to say about us:- The Information's Top 50 Startups (https://www.allium.so/post/allium-named-to-the-informations-50-most-promising-startups-of-2025)
- Mario Gabriele from The Generalist's Future 50 Startup List: https://www.allium.so/post/allium-named-awardee-of-the-generalists-inaugural-future-50-startups
- Tomasz Tungus from Theory Ventures: https://tomtunguz.com/allium/
- Bucky Moore from Kleiner Perkins: https://www.kleinerperkins.com/perspectives/allium-series-a/
Ok, now for some tough love. Here are the values we strive for at Allium:- Obsessiveness - The best people at Allium cannot put a problem down once they pick it up. We care more about the work than is strictly rational. Institutions trust us because our data is right. Right means caring about the small things. The decoded contract that ships with one wrong field. The label that is 99% accurate but wrong on the address that matters. The query that runs in 4 seconds when it should run in 400 milliseconds. Most companies tolerate these. We do not.
Obsessiveness shows up as depth of care. It is not measured in hours worked or visible effort. You should feel something physical when work ships half-right. That instinct is what we hire for. - Pro Athlete Mindset - Consistency. Day in and day out, in pursuit of excellence. A win yesterday does not guarantee (or even imply!) a win tomorrow. I hope anyone who supports a failing sports team will feel the pain (cough Man United fans) of inconsistency
- Figure It Out & Extreme Ownership - Every day is unexplored territory. There are new engineering frameworks, new legal docs, new compliance, new sales, new regulations, and new operational procedures every single day. If you don't know it, learn it. If you can't learn it, find someone or a product that does it. If you can't find someone, find someone who can find someone. It is never a lack of resources, but lack of resourcefulness.
- High Agency - (One of) the highest commonalities between all successful people is their responsiveness. Most successful billionaire CEOs still reply to emails within minutes (within working hours). And when you reply, respond fast with effective solutions - and even better, resolutions. If you're looking for a superpower, you can't go wrong with responsiveness. Well of course this doesn't make sense when you're an engineer coding in flow, but in general high agency of problem solving gets one very far in life
- Leading from the Front - No one is going to listen (and adopt) your suggestion unless you lead by example. It's one thing to say We need to do XYZ this better & it's another thing to build an MVP and say "This is the way we should do things". The proof of work and momentum goes a long way.
- Strong Opinions On the Future (loosely held) - It is okay to be wrong, but what is not okay is not to have an idea of how a better future should be. Alliumites take pride in trying to improving everything about the company all the time.
- Sense of (Allium) business smell - There are number of folks who live to eat at Allium, but the Allium smell we are talking about is that we love folks who naturally want to know why and how the work they are doing builds leverage for their teammates and also relates to the business goals
About the teamWe invite people of all backgrounds (https://www.allium.so/about). We have engineers who learnt coding much later in life, who learnt coding on the side, we have engineers who are still in school and we also have engineers who went to the top schools (CMU, Stanford, UIUC, UPenn, Oxford, NUS, Cornell), all are welcome if one comes in with a curious mind and an infectious work ethic.
Administrative Benefits- Medical, Dental, Vision, Life and AD&D insurance - US folks get 100% coverage for Gold plans, 80% for dependents
- Ownership - Meaningful early-stage equity. Every full-time employee receives a stock option grant so you can share directly in Allium's upside
- Time off - Flexible, trust-based paid time off. We encourage people to take the rest they need. In every country we hire, our policies meet or exceed local statutory vacation requirements
- Retirement - Company sponsored 401(k) plan in US so you can save pre-tax for the long term
All applicants have to answer this pop quiz: "What is an Allium? What is your favorite Allium?". Bonus points for the right pronunciation.
