Legal Associate

About Sana 

Sana is an AI lab building superintelligence for work.

We believe organizations can accomplish their missions faster when teams can effortlessly access knowledge, automate repetitive work, and learn anything with the help of agentic AI.

As part of Workday, we are committed to building AI that augments people.

If that’s a mission that excites you, you’re in the right place.

Who you will work with

With talent density as our main north star, we have assembled a founding team of exceptional individuals from Google AI, Spotify, McKinsey, BCG, and Slack, all on a mission to reshape how humans access and use knowledge. Our AI products are already trusted by pioneering global companies and have served over 1 million users worldwide. We are backed by $130M+ in funding from leading investors including NEA, Menlo Ventures, and EQT Ventures. We've been recognized as a LinkedIn Top Startup, earned Fast Company's 2024 Next Big Things in Tech for AI & Data award, and been named to Forbes AI 50 list of top business AI companies. Yet we're just beginning our journey to transform how organizations and humans harness knowledge.

About the role 

We are seeking our next legal hire to join us as Legal Associate to play an integral part in our dynamic legal and global operations team, to bring Sana to our next stage of growth. In this role, you will be working with our Head of Legal at the front line, collaborating across the organization to ensure our legal function operates smoothly and efficiently as we scale. The  Sana legal team operates across a wide range of legal disciplines and jurisdictions and plays a key role as a partner to all other teams with a focus on commercial contracts, product development and business operations. This is an excellent opportunity for a legal professional eager to play a pivotal role in the legal function of a fast-growing, innovative AI scaleup. 

What you’ll do

• Work closely with stakeholders in our commercial and product teams on day-to-day legal matters, including SaaS contracts, vendors, privacy reviews and marketing approvals.

• Negotiate and draft agreements, amendments, NDAs, and other legal documents.

• Review product features and functionalities and help balance risk.

• Actively assess and address privacy risks ensuring alignment with data protection regulations.

• Support stakeholders and various departments by providing ad-hoc legal advice where needed.

• Stay current with legal changes that might impact Sana’s business operations.

• Help build efficient and scalable processes to build an AI first legal function.

What will help you thrive 

• Law Degree (Swedish LL.M. or equivalent).

• 0-2+ years of professional legal experience from a top-tier law firm and/or as an in-house counsel of a SaaS organization or tech scale-up.

• Familiar with international contracting processes and requirements.

• Experience or a demonstrated interest in data protection matters.

• Excellent problem-solving skills with the ability to achieve meaningful business outcomes.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills and can explain legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders.

• You enjoy working collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including product managers, engineers, and sales teams.

• You have a self-starter mindset, meaning you can proactively identify issues and opportunities and tackle them without being told to do so.

• Keen interest in AI and you are eager to apply these tools in an AI first legal function.

What we offer

• Help shape AI's future alongside brilliant minds from Notion, Dropbox, Slack, Databricks, Google, McKinsey, and BCG.

• Competitive salary and compensation package

• Swift professional growth in an evolving environment, supported by a culture of continuous feedback and mentorship from senior leaders.

• Work with talented teammates across 5+ countries, and collaborate with customers globally

• Regular team gatherings and events (recently in Italy and South Africa)