General Counsel

Overview

This senior legal role is the organization’s most senior legal position and a genuine executive seat reporting directly to the CEO. The role sets legal and enterprise-risk strategy, provides final legal sign-off, and advises the CEO, founders, and board with clear, decision-ready guidance.

You will lead a capable in-house legal team along with specialist outside counsel, while staying close to the business to support commercially pragmatic decisions at speed. In addition to day-to-day legal leadership, you will strengthen corporate foundations for the organization’s next phase of growth, including governance, entity management, robust contracts, and IP and data rights.

Responsibilities

• Enable revenue through better contracting

  • Own the commercial contract architecture across customer and partner agreements, product modules, order forms, DPAs and NDAs
  • Improve templates, playbooks, delegation rules, and tooling so routine deals move quickly without becoming a bottleneck

• Set legal and enterprise-risk strategy

  • Serve as the accountable legal adviser to the CEO, founders, and board
  • Surface material risk early, frame available options clearly, and own final legal sign-off

• Lead corporate development and strategic projects

  • Advise on partnerships, investments, acquisitions, integrations, and other strategic initiatives
  • Ensure governance, contracts, and records support speed and confidence when opportunities arise

• Provide the senior legal view on privacy and data protection

  • Partner with Product and Engineering and specialist external counsel on positions covering GDPR, UK GDPR, US state privacy laws, consent frameworks, controller/processor analysis, data transfers and retention
  • Support privacy-by-design through product and technical decisions with defensible, commercially workable positions

• Oversee disputes and intellectual-property exposure

  • Provide senior legal input on material contentious matters
  • Work with outside counsel on strategy, preservation, discovery, and resolution
  • Keep IP and indemnity exposure managed and ensure the CEO and board have a clear view of risk and potential cost

• Maintain strong corporate governance

  • Oversee group entities, board materials, delegated authorities, insurance, and cross-border structure
  • Support employment, marketing, and other enterprise matters where senior legal judgment is required

• Build a scalable legal function

  • Develop the in-house team and define clear ownership between Legal and the business
  • Manage the legal budget and outside-counsel panel
  • Use process and technology to create a function that scales across a fully distributed organization

Requirements

• Senior legal accountability

  • Experience as the senior legal decision-maker in-house, or immediately beneath one, with clear ownership of enterprise-critical matters
  • Comfort advising founders, executives, and boards

• Data-intensive technology background

  • Strong commercial and regulatory judgment from adtech, digital identity, data infrastructure, privacy technology, or a similarly complex B2B software environment

• Privacy fluency and commercial judgment

  • Ability to form defensible positions on novel data-protection questions
  • Ability to pressure-test specialist positions and translate them into practical product and contracting decisions

• Business partnership and communication

  • Proactive, collaborative approach with Commercial, Product, Engineering, and People leaders
  • Clear communication and support in finding a responsible way forward

• Ability to direct specialists without outsourcing judgment

  • Hold the senior view on material disputes, privacy, IP, and corporate matters
  • Use outside counsel selectively while making final internal recommendations

• Leverage through people and systems

  • Experience developing strong lawyers, delegating intelligently, setting guardrails, and improving how legal work is prioritized, measured, and delivered across a distributed organization

• Licensure/qualification

  • Qualified lawyer in a relevant jurisdiction
  • Admitted and in good standing in the US, UK, or another jurisdiction appropriate to advising a UK-parented global technology group with significant US exposure

Preferred Qualifications

• Direct experience in the adtech and identity ecosystem, including IAB consent frameworks, digital advertising standards, data marketplaces, or data-broker regulation
• Experience integrating an acquisition across jurisdictions, including entity governance, data integration, commercial migration, and employment structures such as EORs or PEOs

Compensation & Benefits

• Remote-first working policy
• Competitive compensation package, including stock options
• WeWork membership and option to work from different WeWork locations
• Regular offsites to enable face-to-face time and team bonding

Location

Remote-first with distributed, cross-time-zone working. Admitted and in good standing in the US, UK, or another jurisdiction appropriate to advising a UK-parented global technology group with significant US exposure.