Hybrid Legal Counsel

at Gearset

• Job title: Legal Counsel
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior
• Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Cambridge, United Kingdom

About the role

• Commercial lawyer accelerating Gearset’s growth by managing legal functions for Salesforce DevOps. Work closely with Sales and Customer Success teams to ensure legal compliance and scalability.

Responsibilities

• Accelerate Gearset’s growth by partnering with our Sales and Customer Success teams to review, negotiate, and close commercial agreements with some of our largest and most complex customers, balancing the legal risk against our commercial goals.
• Solve a variety of legal and business challenges in a fast-moving, focused, and collaborative environment
• Educate Gearcitizens on the latest legal and regulatory developments which may impact our business, keeping abreast of and up to date on any changes.
• Recommend ways to improve and scale our processes and reduce friction, so we can keep up with the rapid growth of the business.
• As part of a small but mighty legal team, you’ll work closely with our Head of Legal and existing Legal Counsel to provide expert, pragmatic legal advice on a wide range of business matters.
• Support our Sales and Customer Success functions, as we continue to grow our customer base and expand opportunities, to ensure we can quickly and effectively win customer opportunities.
• Advise and assist other internal teams with their legal challenges, as the need arises.
• Play a key role in ensuring we remain compliant with national and international data protection legislation, supporting our Head of Legal and Compliance Manager, advising on data processing agreements and our internal data protection processes.
• Work closely with our IT and Engineering teams, as we increase the use of AI tools across the business and within our software.
• Help shape and develop our legal function, as we scale and streamline our legal operations.

Requirements

• A proactive junior/mid-level UK qualified lawyer with proven post-qualification experience.
• Experience reviewing and negotiating technology/SaaS agreements (whether in private practice or in-house).
• Able to pragmatically balance ideal legal outcomes with the reality of commercial goals.
• Comfortable leading contract negotiations with customers, and building effective working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders.
• A good understanding of UK and EU data protection laws (US would be helpful too).
• Exceptional writing skills and attention to detail, which you can apply to drafting documents, policies and contracts and communicating in a precise and digestible manner.
• Able to effectively prioritise and stay focused in an environment that’s constantly evolving.
• Excited to help a rapidly growing company scale its legal function.
• Comfortable saying that you don’t have the answer, but confident that you can go and find it.

Benefits

• Salary of £65,000 - £75,000 depending on experience
• This is a full time opportunity, working Monday to Friday with the option of flexible home working (for most of us that looks like 2-3 days a week in the office)
• Opportunity to join our Long Term Incentive Plan
• Generous personal development budget for courses, conferences, or whatever is useful to your professional development in the role of up to £1500 per year
• Top end hardware provided
• Free lunch in the office
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays (with the option to buy an extra 5 each year)
• Company Pension Plan (matching up to 5%)
• Bupa health care
• Life Insurance & critical illness cover
• Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits