EMEA Legal Counsel

About Port.io

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. We combine rich engineering context, workflows, and actions to help organizations move from manual processes to autonomous, AI-assisted engineering workflows while keeping 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 as EMEA Legal Counsel

We’re looking for a commercially driven EMEA 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 meaningful role in Port.io’s continued hypergrowth. If you want to make an impact, influence outcomes, and be part of a fast-growing 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, aligned 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 while removing 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 for EMEA Legal Counsel?

• Fully owns and leads commercial legal work across EMEA with minimal supervision.
• Becomes a 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.
• Establishes standardized commercial templates and playbooks that are actively used across the organization.
• Shortens contract turnaround times and builds clear, scalable processes.
• Is seen as someone who builds, takes ownership, and genuinely contributes to Port.io’s growth.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a commercial lawyer, including at least 2 years in a fast-growth 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.

Key skills/competency

• Commercial Law
• SaaS Agreements
• Contract Negotiation
• Data Protection (GDPR, CCPA)
• Legal Operations
• Stakeholder Management
• Compliance
• IP Law
• Vendor Management
• Business Acumen