With 67% of members achieving a pain-free life and a 70% reduction in surgery intent, at Sword, we are using AI Care to change lives, and save millions for our 25,000+ enterprise clients across three continents. Today, we hold the majority of industry patents, win 70% of competitive evaluations, and have raised more than $400 million from top venture firms like Founders Fund, Sapphire Ventures, General Catalyst, and Khosla Ventures.
Recognized as a Forbes Best Startup Employer in 2025, this award highlights our focus on being a destination for the best and brightest talent. Not only have we experienced unprecedented growth since our market debut in 2020, but we’ve also created a remarkable mission and value-driven environment that is loved by our growing team. With a recent valuation of $4 billion, we are in a phase of hyper growth and expansion, and we’re looking for individuals with passion, commitment, and energy to help us scale our global impact.
Joining Sword means committing to a set of core values, chief amongst them to “do it for the patients” every day, and to always “deliver more than expected” on behalf of our members and clients.
This is an opportunity for you to make a significant difference on a massive scale as you work alongside 1000+ (and growing!) talented colleagues, spanning three continents. Your charge? To help us build a pain-free world, powered by AI, enhanced by people — accessible to all.
Overview:
As Senior Commercial Counsel, you will play a key role in advising our business and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts across our UK and European operations. You will provide pragmatic legal guidance to stakeholders, helping the business achieve its commercial goals while effectively managing risk and ensuring compliance with UK, EU and EU member state laws and relevant international considerations.
Responsibilities :
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide variety of commercial agreements, including client services contracts (MSAs, SOWs, SLAs), vendor agreements, and non-disclosure agreements.
- Provide clear, business-focused advice on UK and EU contract law and commercial best practices.
- Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of contract templates, playbooks, and legal processes.
- Collaborate with operational, commercial, clinical and leadership teams to provide high quality, commercially-focused and pragmatic legal advice on a wide range of topics.
- Advise generally on legal and regulatory requirements relevant to our business and services in the UK and EU, including GDPR, AI, advertising and marketing standards, and technology-related regulations.
Qualifications:
- Qualified solicitor or barrister in England & Wales with 5–10 years’ post-qualification experience in a law firm or in-house legal role preferred. Applicants qualified only in EU jurisdictions may be considered with compelling UK commercial experience.
- Strong experience negotiating and drafting software/SaaS commercial contracts, license agreements, services agreements, technology agreements, vendor contracts, and other types of commercial agreements, especially with respect to the healthcare and health tech space.
- Solid experience providing in-house legal advice in a fast-paced start up or scale up environment.
- Ability to provide pragmatic, commercially minded solutions to legal issues.
- Excellent drafting skills, attention to detail, and analytical capabilities.
- A proactive, collaborative team player who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced and rapidly-evolving start up environment.
- Fluent in English (written and spoken); additional European languages are a plus.
- Proficiency in data security, data privacy and AI regulations are a plus.
- Experience in the healthcare or health tech space is a plus.
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