Qutwo is an AI lab and software company working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and enterprise optimization. Its Qutwo OS platform helps teams develop quantum and hybrid AI algorithms, connect high-performance computing, GPUs, and different quantum processing unit modalities, and operate production workloads with data pipelines, monitoring, and resilience. Qutwo also supports customers through research partnerships, forward-deployed scientists, and integration services designed to turn advanced AI and quantum-computing experiments into practical enterprise applications. The international team includes AI and quantum scientists and engineers, with hiring across AI, MLOps and DevOps, quantum algorithms, and platform engineering.
Senior Legal Counsel — Qutwo (Hybrid, Finland)
Lead the development of Qutwo’s legal function for its quantum AI platform. Advise on commercial contracts, financing, privacy, AI-enabled legal operations, and M&A support.
Description
- Build a scalable legal function aligned with Qutwo’s growth
- Create contract templates, a contracting playbook, a repository, and signing procedures
- Negotiate strategic and non-standard commercial agreements
- Oversee board and shareholder records, share issuances, convertible loans, option plans, employee equity, cap table administration, group structure, and related-party approvals
- Support GDPR compliance, data processing agreements, and readiness for the EU AI Act
- Identify legislation relevant to Qutwo and clarify ownership between the business and Legal
- Support employment templates, cross-border employment matters, IP assignments, and invention agreements
- Design and operate an AI-enabled legal function
- Evaluate and implement legal AI platforms, including Legora or Harvey
- Create reusable legal skills, prompts, and playbooks for contract review, NDA triage, and due diligence
- Help business teams handle routine legal matters through self-service processes
- Support M&A work across due diligence, transaction documentation, and post-closing integration
- Select and oversee external law firms while managing the legal budget
- Run legal operations covering signing authorities, powers of attorney, the legal risk register, and reporting to management and the Board
- Handle disputes and claims in collaboration with external counsel
Requirements
- Master of Laws degree, such as an OTM or equivalent
- At least eight years of experience at a leading law firm, in-house at a technology company, or both
- Demonstrated expertise in commercial contracts involving software, SaaS, or technology licensing
- Practical knowledge of corporate law and venture financing, including the Finnish Companies Act, share issuances, option plans, and convertible instruments
- Practical experience applying AI to legal work, including Legora, Harvey, or general-purpose large language models
- Motivation to develop legal skills, prompts, and automated workflows
- Experience in international environments with cross-border transactions and colleagues or counterparties from varied jurisdictions and cultures
- Experience coordinating foreign legal counsel when required
- Excellent written and spoken English
- Sound judgment and comfort making decisions with incomplete information
- Ability to establish structure in ambiguous environments and adapt as priorities change
- Ambitious, pragmatic, and commercially minded
- Able to work independently and prioritize effectively in a fast-moving scale-up
- Preferred: experience with M&A transactions, ideally on the buy side
- Preferred: exposure to AI, deep tech, or quantum computing
- Preferred: experience implementing legal technology or developing legal automation, including contract lifecycle management, AI agents, or no-code workflows
- Preferred: experience establishing a legal function from the ground up in a scale-up