8-12 years of legal experience, in-house or at a firm, with expertise in commercial contracting.
Experience negotiating API, SaaS, or data licensing agreements with B2B and enterprise customers.
Ability to own legal risk and responsibilities as the sole legal counsel in the company.
Technical proficiency to collaborate effectively with product and engineering teams.
Familiarity with CLM tools, AI-assisted contract review, and e-signature/document workflow platforms.
Experience building legal infrastructure rather than merely maintaining it.
J.D. and active admission to the New York State Bar or ability to obtain it quickly.
Responsibilities
Take full legal responsibility for the Swedish parent and US and Irish subsidiaries.
Build a scalable legal function from scratch, including processes and templates.
Manage end-to-end commercial contracting, focusing on API and data licensing agreements.
Engage with B2B and enterprise customers to resolve legal redlines and negotiate contracts.
Advise product and engineering teams on data use, IP, and liability issues.
Coordinate with outside counsel across different jurisdictions.
Collaborate with the CFO/COO on risk management, compliance, and governance.
Benefits
Opportunity to influence the foundational team and shape the company's trajectory.
Culture of meritocracy where the best ideas prevail and ego is set aside.
Office-based role promoting collaboration with some flexibility for remote work.
Competitive salaries and a generous wellness allowance to support overall health.
Full Job Description
We're hiring our first Legal Counsel in New York: the person who owns legal, across a Swedish parent company and US and Irish subsidiaries. You'll report directly to our CFO/COO and work closely with sales, product and leadership to keep Quartr moving fast without cutting corners.
This isn't a role where you inherit a legal department. You'll be the first in-house lawyer at a company already doing serious B2B and enterprise volume, which means you set up the structure, tools and judgment calls yourself, and you own the outcome. What you'll do
Take full legal responsibility for the group: a Swedish parent, a US subsidiary and an Irish subsidiary.
Build a legal function from the ground up: process, templates, playbooks and tooling that scale with the business, not against it.
Own commercial contracting end to end, with a focus on API and data licensing agreements: MSAs, DPAs, order forms, SOWs.
Work directly with B2B and enterprise customers to discuss and resolve legal redlines, translating commercial and technical requirements into contracts that protect Quartr without slowing down deals.
Advise product and engineering teams on data use, IP and liability as we build and ship.
Manage outside counsel across Sweden, the US and Ireland, and keep cross-jurisdictional matters moving.
Partner with the CFO/COO on risk, compliance and governance as Quartr grows.
Who you are
8-12 years of relevant legal experience, in-house or at a firm, with deep commercial contracting expertise.
Direct experience negotiating API, SaaS or data licensing agreements with B2B and enterprise customers.
Comfortable being the only lawyer in the room: confident owning legal risk end to end without a large team around you.
Technical enough to work closely with product and engineering, and to understand what you're actually contracting around.
Fluent with contract lifecycle management (CLM) tools, AI-assisted contract review, and e-signature/document workflow platforms, and comfortable choosing and rolling these out from scratch to ensure we build a modern scalable legal function.
A builder's mindset: you've stood up legal infrastructure before, not just maintained it.
J.D. and active admission to the New York State Bar (or ability to obtain it promptly).
Nice to have
Experience across multiple jurisdictions, ideally including Sweden, Ireland or similar.
Background at a high-growth data company.
A data-driven approach to legal ops: tracking contract turnaround, risk exposure and outside counsel spend.
What we offer
Do your life's work: The world's leading finance professionals use Quartr daily. We do fewer things better and hold a very high bar for quality.
Join the foundational team: We're still at the very beginning of a multi-decade journey. You'll have a big influence on how we build and scale the company.
Meritocracy over hierarchy: You'll join a culture where the best idea wins. We value clear thinking, leave ego at the door, and obsess over the details.
Office culture: This role is based mainly on-site at our Manhattan office. We value being together, while also offering flexibility to work from home when needed.
Compensation & well-being: We offer competitive salaries, benefits, and a generous wellness allowance to support your physical and mental health.
At this time, we are not able to sponsor work visas for this position; candidates must already be authorised to work in the US.
