Legal Counsel
At Phrase, we help open the door to global business by providing the world’s leading Language Intelligence Platform.
The Phrase Platform combines AI, agentic orchestration, and a headless, API-first architecture in one composable system. Beyond translation, it orchestrates and adapts content to culture, audience, channel, brand voice, and intended outcome in any language, for every audience. It applies the context that makes content perform in every market: quality standards, glossaries, prior translations, and cultural nuance. Every team, in every region, can ship content that is on-brand, on-point, and ready for any audience.
Phrase gives enterprises the intelligence to automate workflows, the freedom to connect their own tools and engines, and the control to govern global content at scale.
With a global team based in our offices, and remote colleagues across Europe, the UK, the US, and the APAC region, Phrase offers an international environment built on collaboration, innovation, and shared purpose.
As our Legal Counsel, based in the Czech Republic, you’ll be a core member of our in-house legal team in a global tech company, providing advice on a broad range of legal matters with a main focus on commercial agreements and the compliance agenda focused mainly on data protection and AI governance. You’ll work with real autonomy — owning contract negotiations and legal analysis directly rather than assisting on them — while helping build internal processes in a successful, fast-growing business and applying a modern approach to in-house legal, including the latest legal tech tools.
What you’ll be responsible for:
• Revising and drafting commercial contracts and customised versions of template documents
• Leading contract negotiations with customers and suppliers
• Owning and improving the compliance agenda
• Maintaining and updating the contract repository in our legal tool
• Preparing legal analysis covering a range of legal matters, including more complex or ambiguous questions
• Providing legal support to the sales team throughout the whole contracting process
• Identifying and driving improvements to internal legal processes and templates
• Working closely with other teams on the wider daily legal agenda
• Reporting directly to the company’s Director of Legal Affairs
What you need:
• Master’s degree in law
• Minimum 3 years of work 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 English skills, written and verbal, including legal English — we’re an international team and English is our official language
• Very good communication, drafting, and negotiating skills, with the ability to work independently and take ownership of matters end to end
• Experience with AI tools is a strong plus
• Proactive mindset — comfortable identifying opportunities for improvement without being asked
What you’ll get:
– Work experience in a successful and growing global SaaS company
– Be part of an international team in Europe, APAC, and the Americas
– Expert colleagues in their field who are determined to build the best localization platform on the market, creating a world where language never limits opportunity
– An agile work environment, where it is encouraged to take smart risks
– Take part in a culture full of trust, support and loyalty, where respectful and open feedback is valued, and diversity is fully embraced
– A positive, open-minded, and innovative atmosphere
– Support in your professional development and personal career goals
What’s on top:
– 4 Company holidays additional to your regular holidays (1 day per quarter where the entire company is off to celebrate our achievements).
– In addition, the company also provides employees with a Christmas break to allow you to spend time with family and friends without use of your vacation allocation.
– Your birthday is off because it is important to celebrate you as well.
– 2 Giveback days where you can support the local community, volunteer, and/or participate in charity events and activities.
– Modern technical setup and latest software.
– Professional and extensive onboarding.
– Flexible working hours and home office options.
– Team-building activities, weekly breakfast with colleagues, complimentary fruits, beverages and snacks in the Prague office.
– Enterprise Claude Licence
– Additional local benefits depending on the entity you’re hired at, just ask your Talent Acquisition Partner
Phrase is committed to ensuring equal pay for equal work and work of equal value between women and men. Our aim is that our workforce will be truly representative of all sections of society and that each worker feels respected and able to give their best. The job requirements and salary range for this job have been established through a gender-neutral job evaluation and classification process. This process objectively assesses the skills, responsibility, effort and working conditions required for each job. This systematic approach ensures fair pay regardless of who performs the work. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of their sex, race or ethnicity, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender identity or age. We value and welcome different perspectives, experiences and backgrounds as we believe that these differences make our team even stronger on our mission of opening the door to global business by giving everybody access to the content they need in the language they speak.