Legal Counsel - Latin America

About the role

Bizagi, an enterprise automation and AI platform, is seeking a Legal Counsel to provide pragmatic, business-oriented legal support on its commercial, corporate, privacy and intellectual property matters. The role focuses primarily on Latin America and also supports Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and North America when required, under the guidance of the Director, Global Legal Affairs. The position is based in Bogota.

Key responsibilities

• Review, draft and negotiate commercial agreements in Spanish and English, including NDAs, partner agreements, supplier agreements and software agreements.
• Support negotiation of customer agreements and Order Forms (PaaS and Professional Services), mainly for LATAM, and cover EMEA and North America when needed.
• Manage standard legal matters within approved templates and escalate non-standard, material or higher-risk matters.
• Support privacy and data protection compliance, including Colombian Law 1581 of 2012, data subject requests and data protection terms in contracts.
• Coordinate intellectual property matters, including trademarks, renewals, deadlines and filings with outside counsel, keeping registrations up to date with the SIC and DNDA.
• Help respond to customer security and compliance questionnaires with the Security team.
• Handle corporate housekeeping for Bizagi entities, such as minutes, powers of attorney, certificates and signature authority.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Law; at least 3 years of experience in similar roles.
• Prior in-house experience in a generalist legal role or combining corporate and commercial contracting responsibilities.
• Demonstrated independent review, drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts in Spanish and English; full bilingualism strongly preferred.
• Experience in software, SaaS, cloud services or technology companies is highly desirable; privacy, IP, corporate and tax matters are a plus.
• Advanced professional English; location is Bogota (ideally).

Required skills

• Solid knowledge of commercial and contract law, including software and technology agreements.
• Knowledge of personal data protection regulation and intellectual property, including trademark registration.
• Knowledge of corporate law and entity management.
• Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Dynamics, Copilot) and generative AI tools for legal work.
• Business-oriented negotiation, stakeholder management, clear communication and attention to detail.