At Verda, we're building a fully featured European AI cloud — with everything needed to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models at scale.

We are a full-stack AI infrastructure company, meaning we design, operate, and optimize the compute powering modern AI workloads across training and inference. Our infrastructure runs on 100% renewable energy, helping build a more sustainable AI ecosystem.

Join Verda while it's still being built — not once it's finished.

About the role

As Verda continues to grow internationally, we're looking for a Legal Intern to support our legal function across a broad range of commercial and operational matters.

This is a hands-on role for someone early in their legal career who wants exposure to the realities of building and scaling a technology company. You won't be sitting on the sidelines conducting theoretical legal research. Instead, you'll work closely with our Lead Legal Counsel and business teams to help keep deals moving, support internal stakeholders, and improve how legal operates across the company.

We're looking for someone who is pragmatic, commercially minded, and motivated by helping the business achieve outcomes efficiently while managing risk appropriately.

Your responsibilities

• Support in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements, including non-disclosure agreements, customer, supplier, vendor, and partnership contracts

• Support the legal review process for commercial opportunities and strategic initiatives

• Conduct legal research and provide concise, practical recommendations to internal stakeholders

• Assist with contract lifecycle management, record keeping, and legal operations processes

• Help develop and maintain legal templates, playbooks, guidance materials, and internal policies

• Support compliance, governance, corporate, and regulatory matters as required

• Work closely with teams across Sales, Finance, Operations, Procurement, and People to provide timely legal support

• Identify opportunities to improve legal processes and increase efficiency as the company scales

• Help ensure legal risks are identified, communicated clearly, and managed in a commercially sensible way

Your key competencies

• Recently completed a law degree or 3+ years of legal studies, or approximately 1 year of relevant experience in a law firm or an in-house legal team

• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English

• Excellent attention to detail and organisational skills

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently

• Strong commercial awareness and interest in technology businesses

• Ability to communicate legal concepts in a clear and practical way

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and evolving environment

• Strong ownership mentality and willingness to take initiative

Most importantly, you are:

• Pragmatic

• Results-oriented and business-minded

• Focused on solutions rather than obstacles

• Curious, proactive, and eager to learn

• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and changing priorities

Nice to have

• Experience working with commercial contracts

• Exposure to technology, SaaS, cloud, AI, or infrastructure-related legal matters

• Familiarity with GDPR, privacy, or compliance topics

• Additional European language skills

• Previous experience in a scale-up or venture-backed company

• Comfortable using AI-powered tools to improve legal workflows and productivity

Why Verda

• Opportunity to gain broad exposure across commercial, corporate, compliance, and operational legal matters

• Direct mentorship from an experienced in-house legal leader

• Fast learning environment with meaningful responsibility from day one

• Work alongside ambitious teams building critical infrastructure for the AI ecosystem

• International environment with colleagues from dozens of nationalities

• Opportunity to contribute to a company scaling rapidly across multiple markets

Practicalities

• Location: Helsinki

• Hybrid mode: Full-time employees are expected to work from our Helsinki office 3 days per week. More flexibility is available for part-time arrangements.

• Employment type: Full-time or part-time

• Duration: Initial 6-month contract

• Reporting line: Lead Legal Counsel

What's next

We're building fast and this role needs the right person behind it. There's no artificial deadline, but when we find who we're looking for, we move.

If this sounds like your next move, apply now.

Please submit your application through our Careers page. We don't accept applications sent by email.