Location: London, UK
The Opportunity
Neat’s Legal organization is seeking a Director, Legal, to scale our legal department and provide broad, strategic legal guidance across the business. This is a builder role for a seasoned in-house attorney. You will serve as a strategic partner to our global Sales team and other key departments, directly driving business growth while protecting the company from risk.
Reporting directly to the General Counsel, you will design and execute an exceptional legal playbook for Neat's commercial operations. You will have the strategic autonomy to manage complex negotiations, advise on diverse global matters, and act as a key architect in Neat's next phase of worldwide growth.
At Neat, you will have the freedom to innovate and the support to execute. If you are a high-performing legal leader who thrives on driving business enablement and shaping the future of workspace collaboration, we want to hear from you.
What You'll Own
Commercial Contracts & B2B Sales
Deal Structuring & Negotiation: Lead the drafting, reviewing, and negotiation of complex commercial agreements in a global B2B sales context, heavily focusing on enterprise end-customer agreements and channel partnerships.
Sales Enablement: Partner closely with Sales and Sales Operations leadership to streamline the contracting process, reducing time-to-close and removing friction while actively protecting Neat’s interests.
Channel Strategy: Provide strategic legal guidance on global channel and go-to-market strategies, ensuring compliance and mutual success with our worldwide network of channel partners.
Broad Legal Counsel
Intellectual Property: Safeguard Neat’s pioneering hardware and software portfolio by advising on IP strategy, trademark protection, and patent processes.
Employment Law: Collaborate closely with our People team to navigate global employment matters, ensuring compliance with local labor laws across our international hubs and fostering a supportive, inclusive workplace.
Cross-Functional Influence
Strategic Advising: Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership across Sales, Marketing, Product, and HR, translating complex legal risks into actionable business strategies.
Process Optimization: Build and scale legal workflows and policies, establishing a culture of high performance, accountability, and continuous improvement.
How Success is Measured
We believe in clear accountability. In this role, your impact will be measured directly by your ability to drive business outcomes:
Contract Velocity: Consistently driving faster deal cycles and reducing friction in the B2B sales process without compromising risk management or company standards.
Risk Mitigation: Effectively identifying and managing legal and compliance risks across our global commercial operations, IP portfolio, and employment practices.
Who You Are
Required Experience
Legal Expertise: Juris Doctor (JD), LLB, or equivalent degree, with active bar admission in good standing in California or England & Wales (depending on your location).
Hardware and SaaS Transaction Experience: Significant experience managing both hardware and SaaS commercial transactions.
Global In-House Experience: Must have significant experience working as an in-house attorney at a global company, navigating multi-jurisdictional legal landscapes.
Commercial Contracting: Deep, hands-on experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts in a B2B sales ecosystem, specifically with enterprise end-customers, distributors, and resellers.
Diverse Legal Acumen: Proven experience handling broad corporate legal matters beyond just commercial contracts, with specific, demonstrable proficiency in Intellectual Property (IP) and Employment law.
Cross-Functional Influence: Proven ability to partner effectively with Sales, HR/People, and Product organizations.
A Builder Mindset: Demonstrated experience defining new workflows, legal policies, and playbook strategies through a company's rapid growth phases.
AI Proficiency: Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools to build efficiencies in legal workflows and operations.
Preferred (Not Required)
Industry Familiarity: Experience in the collaboration, audiovisual (AV), SaaS, or hardware space is a major plus and will flatten the learning curve.
Litigation management: Experience overseeing legal disputes, managing outside counsel, and developing litigation strategies to protect company interests.
Data privacy: Strong understanding of global data protection regulations, such as GDPR and CCPA, and experience implementing privacy compliance frameworks.
M&A experience: Experience with mergers, acquisitions, and corporate development activities is a plus.
Why Join Neat?
At Neat, you’ll be part of a passionate team shaping the future of video collaboration. You’ll have the unique opportunity to represent our brand directly to global audiences and play a key role in how customers experience Neat.
We’re looking for passionate people who work hard and are focused yet like to have fun. The independent thinkers who thrive in a top-notch team of diverse talents. You’ll be contributing to a positive force for progress as the world moves to a new way of working. The workplace is changing, and you can be a part of shaping that future.
Our Company
Neat brings people together with beautifully simple, versatile video devices and experiences. By minimizing the physical and virtual divide, we enable everyone to feel more connected, present and understood, however they prefer to work. We aim to make our technologies so intuitive that terms like "in-office" and "remote" will seem obsolete in five years. Neat's pioneering portfolio addresses the needs of today's workplace and natively supports Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Google Meet, and a range of compelling business apps.
We are an ambitious, accountable, collaborative, responsible, and growing team that fosters an environment where creativity and ingenuity can flourish. We strive to bring out the best in our Neaters and make amazing products and experiences. We are based in Oslo with Neaters working all over the world.
