Your Role
This role plays a key part within the company’s legal and governance functions, supporting the General Counsel on high-impact work to drive strategic growth. The role requires expert advice on corporate and commercial matters, helping safeguard the business while enabling agile decision-making. Close collaboration with teams across the organisation ensures that governance, from both a compliance and risk perspective, remains robust and proportionate across both UK and international entities. Overall, the role is central to building a resilient, well-governed business that can confidently navigate complex regulatory and commercial landscapes.
You will:
1. Provide strategic legal support to the General Counsel on high-value and complex projects, contributing to key business decisions and ensuring legal considerations are integrated early in the planning and execution stages.
2. Manage and deliver a wide range of company, commercial, and corporate legal matters, including all forms of corporate work, drafting and negotiating contracts and supervising the work of external legal counsel to ensure consistency, quality, and cost-efficiency.
3. Oversee and strengthen corporate governance practices, including preparing board and committee materials, ensuring regulatory compliance, and supporting governance processes across both UK-based and international legal entities.
4. Implement and manage an enhanced compliance framework, promoting a culture of accountability and integrity across the organisation, and ensuring alignment with legal, regulatory, and internal policy standards.
5. Act as a key liaison between the legal function and internal business teams, building strong cross-functional relationships to provide proactive legal advice and support that aligns with commercial objectives and operational needs.
Requirements
What you will need to succeed:
6. Proven ability to advise across a broad range of legal matters with minimal reliance on external counsel.
7. A proactive, hands-on mindset with the confidence to take initiative and work independently.
8. Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment, balancing speed with sound judgment.
9. Genuine interest in innovation and emerging technologies, with a commitment to supporting a rapidly evolving business.
10. Experience advising on the protection of innovation, including intellectual property in its broadest sense and the compliance requirements necessary to support this.
11. Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams and contribute to wider business value.
12. Post-qualification experience gained at a leading national firm or a specialist commercial practice.
13. Minimum of 4 years’ PQE (or equivalent experience).
14. Expertise in one or more of the following areas: corporate law, commercial contracts, intellectual property, or regulatory compliance.
Extra kudos if you have:
15. Some experience of in-house, through employment or secondment.
16. Experience of the technology sector and/or working for or with a scale up.
The Candidate Journey: Multi-Step and Two-Way
No-one wants to feel like a square peg in a round hole, so this process is designed to give you every chance to get the measure of us, and us of you. The various stages give you every opportunity to show your unique strengths and qualities, and enables each of us to establish if we’re a good fit for the other. If the fit is good and you’re selected, you’re then in a position to do great work and thrive, which is what everyone wants.
Benefits
We provide:
17. Competitive salary, benchmarked against the market and reviewed annually
18. Company share programme
19. Hybrid and/or flexible work arrangements
20. An outstanding £3,000 flexible benefits including private medical insurance, critical illness coverage, life assurance, EAP, group income protection
21. Funded relocation support
22. Fully funded Visa sponsorship if required
23. A salary exchange pension plan
24. 25 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays
25. A pet-friendly office environment
26. Safe assigned spaces for team members with individual and diverse needs