Associate Legal Counsel

The role

You will advise UK teams across the business and focus on various legal areas. You will support Partner and Go-To-Market teams, negotiate contracts, and contribute to team-wide initiatives.

What you will do

• Support and advise the Partner team and negotiate strategic Partner deals
• Support and advise the Go-To-Market teams in the UK on strategic and high value deals
• Work closely with your manager to support on strategic projects
• Work on specific projects such as rolling out new templates or launching new products
• Review and negotiate customer, partnership and supplier contracts
• Supervise more junior lawyers on negotiations or specific files
• Instruct and manage external legal counsel
• Build out and maintain self-help tools, playbooks and guides
• Focus on constant process improvement for high volume work
• Be prepared to deal with any legal issue at any time

Required qualifications

• 5 to 8 years of PQE
• Qualified in the UK
• Private practice training and/or in-house experience in a fast-paced environment

Nice to have

• Experience negotiating complex contracts with sophisticated counterparties
• Experience reviewing marketing materials in accordance with applicable laws and regulations
• Experience in a similar area to a technology business
• Knowledge of FCA requirements or payment services
• Experience in IP management and handling IP related issues
• Experience with selling and supporting SaaS solutions
• Ability to explain what an API is

Benefits

• Wellbeing support and medical cover
• Meal voucher or paid lunch when working from the office
• Work away scheme for up to 20 working days in any 12-month period
• Adaptive Working
• Parental leave
• Annual learning budget
• Generous holiday allowance
• Volunteer days for ERG events
• One day off if you need to move house

About the company

GoCardless, a Mollie company, is a global leader in bank payments. It handles recurring and one-off payments through Direct Debit, real-time payments and open banking.