Affinda Group - General Counsel
Affinda Group
Full-time
On-site
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
About Affinda Group
Affinda Group is building the world’s leading AI transformation business. We are focused on transforming the value of any company with AI by leveraging our three core capabilities: automating complex business processes through our agentic AI platform, identifying and delivering high-impact AI solutions, and training teams to use AI properly.
Alongside our AI transformation offering, we also offer AI and software products, including a growing suite of legal tech products under our Draftable brand, whose document comparison and drafting tools are used by law firms and in-house teams globally.
We are growing revenue at 100% year on year, have 2,000+ customers globally and a team of ~100 people in 10 countries. We are well capitalised and are currently investing in multiple growth engines to accelerate our ambition of becoming an Australian AI company of global significance.
The role
We’re looking for a General Counsel to help Affinda scale from $20+ million revenue to $100+ million over the coming years.
This is a high impact role within a rapidly growing AI scale-up, where you will lead the legal function with a clear mandate to support the growth of the business. You must be a systems thinker, be proactive in your adoption of AI and have a highly commercial mindset.
What makes this role compelling
Why nowAs the world races towards AGI and the pace of AI adoption accelerates, we are uniquely positioned to help organisations capture the full potential of this once-in-a-generation shift.
For a senior legal professional, this is a chance to guide how a fast-growing AI company behaves, contracts, manages risk and builds trust, while staying very close to how AI is reshaping the practice of law itself.
You will:
What you'll bring
Essential:
Compensation & location
Compensation:
Commensurate with experience. Package made up of salary plus long-term incentives.
Location:
How to apply
Submit in PDF format:
Affinda Group is building the world’s leading AI transformation business. We are focused on transforming the value of any company with AI by leveraging our three core capabilities: automating complex business processes through our agentic AI platform, identifying and delivering high-impact AI solutions, and training teams to use AI properly.
Alongside our AI transformation offering, we also offer AI and software products, including a growing suite of legal tech products under our Draftable brand, whose document comparison and drafting tools are used by law firms and in-house teams globally.
We are growing revenue at 100% year on year, have 2,000+ customers globally and a team of ~100 people in 10 countries. We are well capitalised and are currently investing in multiple growth engines to accelerate our ambition of becoming an Australian AI company of global significance.
The role
We’re looking for a General Counsel to help Affinda scale from $20+ million revenue to $100+ million over the coming years.
This is a high impact role within a rapidly growing AI scale-up, where you will lead the legal function with a clear mandate to support the growth of the business. You must be a systems thinker, be proactive in your adoption of AI and have a highly commercial mindset.
What makes this role compelling
- High impact: Join the leadership team of one of Australia’s fastest-growing AI companies, shaping how organisations adopt and use AI in practice.
- Real influence: Be the person the founders and execs turn to on the toughest judgement calls, blending commercial, legal and risk perspectives.
- Own the legal function: Autonomy and authority to build the systems and playbooks to help us move faster while appropriately managing risk.
- Support new legal products: Leverage your experience, insights and legal network to support the development of new drafting tools for the legal industry.
Why now
For a senior legal professional, this is a chance to guide how a fast-growing AI company behaves, contracts, manages risk and builds trust, while staying very close to how AI is reshaping the practice of law itself.
You will:
- Refine and maintain standardised customer contract templates.
- Establish playbooks to support scalable contracting processes.
- Support sales with clear, pragmatic and timely legal advice.
- Promote a commercial pragmatic, solutions-oriented culture within the legal function.
- Advise on privacy, data protection, IP and information security.
- Support corporate projects, capital raisings and strategic transactions.
- Maintain practical governance, risk and compliance frameworks.
- Manage relationships with external counsel.
- Partner with legal tech product teams on strategy and feedback.
What you'll bring
Essential:
- 3+ years leading a legal function (e.g. in-house legal counsel) or business unit (e.g. GM)
- Expertise in contract law with experience negotiating complex commercial contracts
- Commercial judgement that appropriately balances growth and risk
- Systems mindset, with a focus on building scalable processes to support growth
- Genuine curiosity about AI and comfort adopting modern AI tools in your own workflow
- In-house experience in a high-growth tech business
- Experience with international contracting, data and regulatory issues
- Public markets experience
Compensation & location
Compensation:
Commensurate with experience. Package made up of salary plus long-term incentives.
Location:
- Melbourne, Australia
- Flexible working arrangements with regular in-person collaboration
How to apply
Submit in PDF format:
- A cover letter
- Your CV