Head of Legal & Compliance📣 إعلان

Head of Legal & Compliance at Lucidya

Lucidya is an AI-native platform specializing in Customer Experience (CX) Intelligence, autonomously managing entire customer lifecycles from initial engagement through retention and growth. Our platform leverages proprietary Natural Language Understanding (NLU) capabilities, trained on billions of multilingual conversations, to empower marketing, customer support, CX, and research teams. As Lucidya experiences rapid growth and expansion across the GCC, serving a growing number of enterprise and government customers, and preparing for its next strategic stage, the Legal & Compliance function is recognized as a critical enabler of this growth. We are seeking a Head of Legal & Compliance to join our team in Riyadh, Riyadh Province, in a full-time capacity.

Role Purpose and Scope

This hands-on leadership role involves close partnership with the executive team, managing a small internal team, and coordinating external counsel. The successful candidate will be instrumental in building the foundational elements for Lucidya's long-term success. You will be responsible for establishing and leading a lean, high-impact Legal & Compliance function, owning the legal, governance, risk, compliance, and data protection agenda to ensure commercial agility while meeting the expectations of customers, regulators, auditors, and investors.

Key Responsibilities

• Own Lucidya's legal and compliance strategy, building a function that enables business growth while maintaining strong governance and effective risk management.
• Streamline commercial contracting processes across customer, vendor, partner, and public sector agreements by creating practical templates, playbooks, and processes.
• Lead the Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) program, ensuring certifications such as ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, NIST, and GDPR remain audit-ready through close partnership with Security and Engineering.
• Act as Lucidya's Data Protection Officer, ensuring compliance with Saudi PDPL, GDPR, and other privacy regulations, and embedding privacy-by-design into products and operations.
• Lead corporate legal matters across the group structure, supporting board governance, corporate administration, mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, and future capital markets readiness.
• Enable Lucidya's regional expansion by leading the legal and compliance work required to establish new entities, manage local regulatory obligations, and coordinate external legal counsel across multiple jurisdictions.
• Build and lead a lean Legal & Compliance team, balancing internal capability and external expertise, and serving as a trusted advisor to the CEO, CFO, and executive leadership team.

Performance Expectations (First 6-12 Months)

• Establish a well-run Legal & Compliance function with clear ownership, governance, and efficient operating processes.
• Streamline the contracting process and successfully integrate and develop the Legal Associate.
• Deliver ISO 27001 and SOC 2 renewals on schedule while maintaining a strong, evidence-backed compliance posture.
• Implement an enterprise risk register, core corporate policies, and a robust Data Protection Officer framework.
• Significantly advance Lucidya's legal and governance readiness for mergers and acquisitions, future fundraising, and capital markets activities.

Qualifications and Experience

• A minimum of 10 years of legal experience, including in-house legal and compliance leadership at a technology, SaaS, or comparably regulated company.
• Qualified lawyer with a strong grounding in commercial, corporate, and technology law; Saudi law exposure and understanding of the KSA/GCC regulatory environment is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ownership of a compliance and certification program (ISO 27001, SOC 2 or equivalent) and of data-protection compliance (PDPL and/or GDPR).
• Hands-on M&A and corporate experience, including managing diligence and transaction processes, ideally with experience working alongside investors and boards.
• Exposure to regulated industries, with experience serving or operating within public-sector, banking/financial-services, or telecom environments.
• Proven track record of building or scaling a legal and compliance function in a high-growth company, and of managing external counsel effectively on a budget.
• Pre-IPO or capital-markets readiness experience is a strong advantage.

Required Skills and Competencies

• Autonomous operator: Ability to run the function independently with minimal oversight, bringing structure to ambiguity and requiring no hand-holding.
• Commercial judgment: Balances legal risk against business velocity, acting as a business enabler rather than a blocker.
• Governance rigor: Builds durable policies, controls, and audit trails that withstand external scrutiny.
• Clear communicator: Translates complex legal and regulatory matters into concise, decision-ready guidance for executives and the board.
• Pragmatic and lean: Understands when to build in-house versus utilizing external counsel, and how to prioritize effectively under resource constraints.
• High integrity and independence: Comfortable upholding governance standards and escalating issues when necessary.