EMEA Legal Counsel
Team8
Description
About Port:
At Port.io, we are building an open and flexible Agentic Engineering Platform for modern engineering organizations. Following our recent $100M Series C funding round, we are in a phase of rapid hypergrowth with strong enterprise momentum.
We act as the central nervous system for engineering, enabling platform teams to unify their stack and expose it as a governed layer through golden paths for developers and AI agents. By combining rich engineering context, workflows, and actions, we help organizations transition from manual processes to autonomous, AI-assisted engineering workflows while maintaining control and accountability. As a product-led company, we believe in building world-class platforms that fundamentally shape how modern engineering organizations operate.
About your day-to-day:
We’re looking for a commercially driven Legal Counsel to join our growing team in Israel and take ownership of commercial legal matters across EMEA.
This is a hands-on role for someone who wants to build, not just maintain. You’ll be a key legal partner to our GTM teams and play a real role in Port’s continued hyper-growth. If you’re looking to make an impact, influence outcomes, and be part of a meteoric growth story – this role is for you.
As part of your responsibilities, you will:
- Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including SaaS agreements, partner agreements, vendor contracts, DPAs, NDAs, and related documents, in alignment with the company’s go-to-market strategy.
- Own and manage the full lifecycle of commercial agreements, from intake and negotiation through execution, implementation, and archival.
- Act as a trusted legal partner to Sales, Product, Security, and other stakeholders to support and accelerate deals and remove legal blockers.
- Lead and contribute to commercial legal operations, including scalable processes, tools, workflow automation, and internal training.
- Draft, maintain, and continuously improve commercial templates, clauses, and playbooks to ensure consistency, efficiency, and compliance.
- Manage and coordinate external counsel on specialized commercial matters when required.
- Support commercial activity across the EMEA region, with occasional travel to London and other offices as needed.
What Success Looks Like After 6 Months:
- Fully owns and leads commercial legal work across EMEA with minimal supervision.
- Trusted legal partner to Sales and GTM, enabling faster deal execution without blocking the business.
- Independently negotiates complex SaaS and partner agreements with enterprise customers.
- Standard commercial templates and playbooks are in place and actively used.
- Contract turnaround times are shorter and processes are clear and scalable.
- Seen as someone who builds, takes ownership, and genuinely contributes to Port’s growth.
Requirements:
- 5+ years of experience as a commercial lawyer, including at least 2 years in a fast-paced tech company (in-house).
- Proven experience in commercial tech / SaaS agreements – mandatory.
- Law degree from a leading academic institution.
- Certified lawyer with an active bar membership.
- Strong background negotiating B2B SaaS contracts with enterprise and mid-market customers across EMEA and globally.
- Solid understanding of privacy, IP, and data protection regulations relevant to SaaS businesses (including GDPR, CCPA, and similar frameworks).
- A hands-on, get-things-done mindset with strong business judgment and the ability to operate in a fast-moving environment.
- Highly organized, able to manage multiple priorities while keeping the details tight.
- A true team player with excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- A proactive self-learner who takes ownership, looks ahead, and pushes things forward.
- Someone who cares deeply about the company’s success and is excited to help build and scale a high-growth organization.