Senior Counsel (Commercial Contracts) Temporary / Fixed term contract (6 months)
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Description
We are looking for a Senior Counsel to join Quantinuum’s legal team on a temporary basis. Our company is in a period of significant growth. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Corporate Counsel to play a vital role in managing corporate contracts and legal activities for the company.
The Senior Counsel is an important role in the business that will be based in London or Cambridge. You will be working closely with the legal team, to manage corporate contracts and transactional activities. Among key areas, the role will focus on drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, technology licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, scientific research and collaboration agreements, trademark branding and marketing agreements, employment contracts, as well as providing support on various compliance functions, including in relation to technology control, import and export laws, data protection and regulations. In addition, you will develop and codify policies and standard operating procedures, and support in their rollout and related training.
We have many leading scientists working for us developing products which will have a significant impact on everyday life in the future. Your legal expertise will enable our teams and the company to be successful.
Key Responsibilities:
The Senior Counsel is an important role in the business that will be based in London or Cambridge. You will be working closely with the legal team, to manage corporate contracts and transactional activities. Among key areas, the role will focus on drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, technology licensing agreements, SaaS agreements, scientific research and collaboration agreements, trademark branding and marketing agreements, employment contracts, as well as providing support on various compliance functions, including in relation to technology control, import and export laws, data protection and regulations. In addition, you will develop and codify policies and standard operating procedures, and support in their rollout and related training.
We have many leading scientists working for us developing products which will have a significant impact on everyday life in the future. Your legal expertise will enable our teams and the company to be successful.
Key Responsibilities:
- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including technology licensing, SaaS, scientific research and collaboration agreements, branding and marketing contracts, employment agreements, and other corporate transactions.
- Provide pragmatic, business-focused legal advice to internal stakeholders across commercial, technical, scientific, and operational teams, enabling the company’s growth and innovation strategy.
- Partner closely with the wider legal team to manage corporate legal activities and transactional workflows across multiple jurisdictions.
- Support compliance programmes relating to technology controls, import/export regulations, data protection, and other applicable regulatory frameworks, ensuring legal and operational risks are effectively managed.
- Minimum 12-15 years of post-qualification legal experience
- US or UK Law Degree
- Admitted and registered as a solicitor in the UK or to practise in the US
- Excellent research, writing and drafting skills
- Exceptional communication skills (oral and written)
- Strong organizational skills
- Incisive analytical thinker and a self-starter
- Energetic and dynamic
- Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
- Ability to work under tight timeframes
- Company secretarial experience
- Experience of working in scientific, software engineering or computer science industries
Working alongside a highly talented team, with leading names in the quantum computing industry.
About Us:
Quantinuum is the world leader in quantum computing. The company’s quantum systems deliver the highest performance across all industry benchmarks. Quantinuum’s over 700 employees, including 400+ scientists and engineers, across the US, UK, Germany, Japan and Singapore, are driving the quantum computing revolution.
By uniting best-in-class software with high-fidelity hardware, our integrated full-stack approach is accelerating the path to practical quantum computing and scaling its impact across multiple industries.
Visit our news pages to learn more about Quantinuum and our scientific breakthroughs and
achievements: https://www.quantinuum.com/news
Quantinuum Intro Video: The Future of Quantum Computing
Please note that employment with us is subject to successfully passing our pre-employment screening checks. We are an inclusive equal opportunity employer. You will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
Quantinuum Intro Video: The Future of Quantum Computing
Please note that employment with us is subject to successfully passing our pre-employment screening checks. We are an inclusive equal opportunity employer. You will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, or veteran status.
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.