Legal Counsel - Remote

Overview

At Gearset, we're on a mission to revolutionise DevOps for Salesforce, and we’re looking for the third member of our growing in-house legal team. Our small but mighty legal team provides a pragmatic and customer-facing legal function to a top tech company with an impressive track record, and ambitious growth plans. Partnering closely with the other teams, this opportunity will give an ambitious commercial lawyer the opportunity to work in a supportive and highly entrepreneurial environment.

In Short

• 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.

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 remotely in the UK.
• Opportunity to join our Long Term Incentive scheme.
• 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.
• BUPA health care.
• Life Insurance & critical illness cover.
• Discounted gym membership, as well as a range of health and wellness benefits.