Senior Legal Counsel, Product and Technology

Overview

In this role you will provide commercially focused legal support to product, engineering, and go-to-market teams to accelerate the design, development and launch of Sage solutions. You will act as a trusted adviser on technology matters, including AI, IP, and data privacy, ensuring pragmatic risk management. The position sits in the Product & Technology Legal team, collaborating across OGC to deliver high‑quality guidance for a global product portfolio. You will help scale legal operations by leveraging AI-powered tools and supporting innovative technologies. This is a chance to influence how legal services enable cutting‑edge product delivery at scale.

Pay / Benefits

• generous pension scheme
• 25 days annual leave plus up to 5 more days
• 8 bank holidays
• volunteering days
• health, dental, and vision coverage
• hybrid working

Responsibilities

• Provide commercially focused legal advice across the product development and readiness lifecycle
• Partner with product, engineering and go-to-market teams to support delivery of technology solutions
• Advise on AI, IP, data privacy and related technology law matters
• Draft, review and negotiate commercial, technology, procurement and partner agreements
• Support compliance requirements for products, financial services and marketing regulation
• Create practical guidance, training and self-service resources
• Collaborate with specialist OGC teams for coordinated support
• Identify opportunities to improve legal processes and leverage AI tools
• Support product teams on emerging technologies including generative and agentic AI

Key requirements

• Qualified Solicitor or equivalent
• minimum 5 years post-qualification experience
• pragmatic, commercially focused legal advice in a tech environment
• knowledge of AI, IP and data privacy (GDPR and EU AI Act)
• strong drafting, negotiation and commercial skills
• ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders
• strong collaboration across teams and jurisdictions
• growth mindset and continuous learning
• excellent analytical, problem-solving and organizational skills

• collaboration
• communication
• relationship-building
• AI knowledge (generative/agentic)
• intellectual property
• data privacy (GDPR, EU AI Act)

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