Associate Legal Counsel, Commercial

This Associate Legal Counsel role will provide transactional and advisory support across both EMEA Procurement & Inbound Legal and EMEA Marketing Legal. In this role, you will independently lead complex, high-value commercial negotiations, ranging from strategic inbound technology, AI, professional services, and outsourcing agreements to flagship regional sponsorships, creative/media agency deals, and brand partnerships. In addition to high-priority contracting, you will act as a trusted advisor to procurement and marketing stakeholders, delivering pragmatic risk assessments on multi-jurisdictional marketing campaigns, advertising compliance, consumer protection, IP, data privacy, and AI governance. You will also be expected to drive team-wide operational excellence across EMEA by helping to design and maintain scalable templates and playbooks, leveraging AI contracting tools, resolving complex escalations, and mentoring junior team members.

Our mission is to drive the success of Google’s business operations and brand initiatives across EMEA through principled, innovative and commercially-minded legal strategies. By combining deep commercial contracting expertise with regional insight, we enable our internal clients to move quickly and responsibly, whether sourcing critical third-party services and technologies or launching high-visibility marketing campaigns across EMEA.

Minimum qualifications:

- JD, LL.B., equivalent degree, or equivalent practical experience.

- 3 years of attorney-level experience in government, in-house, or at a law firm.

- Experience leading the structuring, drafting, and negotiation of commercial or enterprise service agreements at a technology company or in a legal environment focusing on technology customers/agreements.

- Admitted to the bar and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status) in the jurisdiction in which the position is located.

Preferred qualifications:

- Experience providing marketing and advertising advisory support across EMEA (including consumer protection, advertising standards, promotional activations, and brand campaigns).

- Experience in the technology, digital media, or corporate procurement sector.

- Experience designing and delivering streamlined, efficient contracting playbooks, templates, and commercial programs.

- Experience working on legal matters across EMEA, including UK and European digital, AI, privacy, and extended workforce regulations.

- Experience managing multiple simultaneous projects to deadline.

- Structure, draft, and negotiate complex, high-value commercial agreements across EMEA, covering both strategic inbound procurement (software, AI technologies, professional services, and outsourced operations) and regional marketing initiatives (flagship sponsorships, agency agreements, media buying, and brand partnerships).

- Provide pragmatic, end-to-end legal and regulatory counsel to marketing and procurement stakeholders on multi-jurisdictional brand campaigns, product launches, promotional activations, and supplier engagements across EMEA.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with a broad range of stakeholders to assess and mitigate complex risks across IP, data privacy, AI governance, consumer protection, and advertising law.

- Handle complex contract escalations, interpretation disputes, and senior stakeholder briefings, balancing commercial velocity with sound risk management.

- Lead scalable legal operations initiatives across EMEA, developing regional templates, fallback playbooks, and client trainings, integrating AI-powered contracting tools, and providing guidance and mentorship to junior team members as required.