Senior Legal And Product Specialist, Commercial Group

Who are Robin AI?

Robin AI is an exciting, venture-backed technology start-up using software, artificial intelligence and human intelligence to make contracts simple. Robin was established in 2019 by CEO Richard Robinson (a former City lawyer) and Chief Technology Officer James Clough (a theoretical physicist who works in Machine Learning) and is backed by some of the world’s most impressive companies and investors, including Forward Partners, Episode One, Google and Softbank.

At Robin AI, we create ground-breaking products that are transforming legal work. Our work is multi-disciplinary and brings together the best talent in engineering, AI and the law. At the heart of our offering is a traditional legal service which is being enhanced by cutting edge machine learning. We are looking for a bright legal mind to help us provide a world-class experience to our customers, support the development of our junior team members and maintain our exceptionally high service delivery standards.

Why is this role important to Robin AI?

This role is within the Legal and Product Team at Robin, and will involve working directly with commercial teams at fast-growing corporates, global insurance companies and private capital funds as they buy and sell services of all types. In addition, you will have an important role in the development of Robin’s legal technology products, and will work closely with Robin’s engineering and commercial teams to onboard new clients to those products.

As an experienced legal professional, you will have responsibility for reviewing and negotiating commercial documents such as vendor agreements (including master services agreements, statements of work, SaaS agreements and more), data processing addenda, confidentiality agreements and engagement letters, amongst others. You will also have the opportunity to help us hire and develop fantastic new junior legal talent in the team. In addition, Robin offers great opportunities for personal career development in a variety of areas alongside traditional legal work, including client onboarding and management, product development and ongoing customer success.

We are expanding our North American presence, with the goal of opening a standalone New York City office.

This role will suit an experienced legal professional (whether a qualified solicitor or paralegal) who might be considering an in-house position within a commercial legal team. At Robin we are proud to have high-calibre clients of the sort described above, and our core commercial work covers many of the same areas and document types that they handle internally – but we work in a much more modern, creative and flexible way!

Requirements

Sounds great! What are my responsibilities?

• Reviewing and negotiating contracts such as vendor agreements, data processing addenda, confidentiality agreements and engagement letters, using a combination of Robin’s AI technology and your own legal experience.
• Helping establish and agree contract playbooks (i.e. review guidelines) with current and new clients.
• Reviewing the work of junior team members and assisting with their professional development and ongoing training (all of which will also be available to you).
• Testing Robin’s technology products and feeding back issues, bugs and areas for improvement to our engineering and machine learning teams.
• As Robin continues to experience success, you will also have the chance to get involved in exciting business-related projects, including helping to support our future fundraising rounds.

What about my skills?

You will have at least 1-3 years’ experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating the core commercial documents regularly encountered by our clients described above. You will have previously worked with commercial legal teams (and perhaps procurement teams), whether in-house, at a service provider or at a law firm, and will understand the typical process for negotiating supplier agreements.

You will enjoy taking the initiative and seeking answers to interesting practical and legal issues. You will be both technical and commercial, both in the practice of law and outside of it. You will be interested in developing your client management skills at a faster pace than might be possible elsewhere, and ideally, you’ll be looking forward to taking ownership of some of our client relationships in due course. Last (but certainly not least), you will be motivated by working in a fast-paced, diverse and intellectually challenging environment where collaboration between lawyers and non-lawyers is essential to achieving results.

Benefits

At Robin AI, we put humanity first— we believe a great product is inextricably linked to a great internal community.

We’re a quickly growing, cross-functional team that values supporting each other's development. As part of the team, you can expect:

• Competitive salary (c.$50,000 – $150,000, depending on experience)
• Meaningful equity in the business
• Flexible working from home and in our WeWork office
• Technology to enable you to work seamlessly from the office or home
• Focus on continual learning and development
• Core benefits package

We are deliberate about the culture we are building, and are committed to creating an inclusive environment that attracts the best talent from diverse backgrounds. Whether it’s helping curate the Robin Spotify playlist, discussing gender equality in tech, or taking a meditation break with our holistic health plan, we want you to find your space within the Robin community.

From our offices, you’ll have access to all of the WeWork amenities including co-working space, bike lockers, pool tables, table tennis, free barista-made coffee and free beer in the evenings.

DEI @ Robin AI

We want to break diversity, inclusion and equality barriers within the tech industry. In building our team, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring, and welcome applications regardless of ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, education, opinions, nation of origin, languages spoken, age, pregnancy and maternity, or veteran’s status.