General Counsel / Head of Legal

This role is part of our Central Team at saas.group.

We are a Delaware-incorporated, remote-first serial acquirer of SaaS companies across North America and Europe. With a portfolio spanning 6+ jurisdictions, a $100M debt facility, and a 400-person global team, our complexity is high, but our team is lean.

As our first legal hire, you will build the legal function from the ground up, ideally super-lean by leveraging software, AI, and automation to maximize efficiency—minimizing the need for additional headcount or external counsel. We are a fast-moving serial acquirer of SaaS companies with a global team and a significant debt facility. You will be a key partner to the executive team, ensuring our acquisition engine runs smoothly, our global compliance is airtight, and our corporate governance supports our long-term growth.

Your immediate impact in the first 3-6 months will be:

• Establish a scalable, AI-driven legal operations framework to minimize reliance on external counsel.
• Audit and streamline the legal due diligence process for our M&A pipeline to support ~5 acquisitions per year.
• Take full ownership of the corporate secretarial duties and governance for our Delaware parent and global subsidiaries.

• M&A Execution: Lead legal due diligence and partner with the M&A team and the board during transaction execution; manage outside counsel across various jurisdictions to ensure deals are closed on time and within budget.
• Corporate Governance: Manage our Delaware parent entity and subsidiaries in Germany, Austria, France, Finland, Canada, and the US, acting as the corporate secretary for board meetings.
• Capital Structure & Debt: Oversee the legal requirements of our $100M debt facility, including compliance with financial covenants and reporting obligations.
• Global Employment & HR: Partner with People Ops to manage a hybrid workforce of 400+ (FTEs, Contractors, and EORs) and ensure our SAR (Stock Appreciation Rights) program is compliant.
• Commercial & SaaS: Streamline customer contracts and privacy policies (GDPR/CCPA) across the portfolio to ensure best-in-class standards.
• Risk & Compliance: Build scalable processes for IP protection, data privacy, and internal audits.

• Legal Qualification: JD, LLM, or equivalent degree, admitted to practice in a major jurisdiction (US or EU preferred).
• M&A & Private Equity Expertise: 6+ years of experience with a heavy emphasis on M&A or Venture Capital; in-house experience at a "buy-and-build" platform is a major plus.
• Cross-Border Proficiency: Comfortable navigating both US and European legal frameworks in a remote-first, asynchronous environment.
• Operational & AI Mindset: You view legal as a business enabler and are eager to adopt AI tools (like ChatGPT Enterprise or Gemini) to scale efficiency.
• Strategic Influence: Ability to set functional strategy, align with senior leadership, and act as a multiplier across the organization.

• Ultimate flexibility: We're 100% remote. You can work from wherever you like, whenever you like.
• Freedom and autonomy: We're a high-trust team, and you'll be given lots of flexibility to solve problems in your own way.
• Minimum bureaucracy: We don't like to get bogged down with meetings and red tape. We like to be efficient and keep momentum steady & sustainable.
• Our network: We are a community of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals that regularly exchange ideas, knowledge, and expertise.
• Flexible time off: We want you to recharge your batteries when needed.

We don't just simply offer you to "take a job with us" but rather to "join us on this journey" to build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies.