Legal Counsel

About the role

As a Legal Counsel at Phrase, you will join the in‑house legal team based in the Czech Republic. You will provide advice on a broad range of legal matters, focusing on commercial agreements, data‑protection compliance and AI governance, while working with autonomy on contract negotiations and legal analysis.

Key responsibilities

• Revise and draft commercial contracts and customised versions of template documents.
• Lead contract negotiations with customers and suppliers.
• Own and improve the compliance agenda, especially data‑protection and AI governance.
• Maintain and update the contract repository in the legal tool.
• Prepare legal analysis covering complex or ambiguous questions.
• Provide legal support to the sales team throughout the contracting process.
• Identify and drive improvements to internal legal processes and templates.
• Work closely with other teams on the daily legal agenda.
• Report directly to the Director of Legal Affairs.

Required profile

• Master's degree in law.
• Minimum 3 years of experience as an in‑house counsel or at a law firm.
• Strong working knowledge of Czech and EU legislation.
• General knowledge of IT law and data‑protection law, especially GDPR.
• Excellent written and verbal English, including legal English.
• Very good communication, drafting and negotiating skills, with the ability to work independently.
• Proactive mindset, comfortable identifying improvement opportunities.
• Experience with AI tools is a strong plus.

Required skills

• Experience with AI tools.