Legal Counsel

The role

This Legal Counsel will join the International legal team to help scale the company's presence across the UK and EU. You will own legal matters end-to-end, supporting commercial contracting, employment, logistics, IP, data protection, and product compliance.

What you will do

• Act as legal contact for UK and EU-based teams and issues
• Provide strategic and day-to-day counsel on commercial, regulatory, and operational matters
• Scale the UK business to new EU markets
• Build UK and EU playbooks and policies with the People Director
• Support onboarding, terminations, restructures, and performance issues
• Advise on UK and EU GDPR, data subject rights, and cookie compliance
• Advise on marketing practices, pricing, and consumer protection regulation
• Advise on AI governance, responsible AI frameworks, and bias considerations
• Draft, review, and negotiate vendor contracts, logistics agreements, and SaaS licenses
• Advise on UK and EU trademark registration, protection, and enforcement

Required qualifications

• UK-qualified solicitor with 5+ years PQE
• Strong generalist background, ideally with top-tier law firm training and in-house experience at a high-growth, technology-led or retail company
• Demonstrated ability to deliver pragmatic, commercial legal advice and operate independently with minimal supervision
• Proven track record of owning legal projects end-to-end and building legal processes and frameworks from scratch
• Comfortable working cross-functionally with business stakeholders, non-legal teams, and distributed teams
• Proactive, business-minded, and hands-on with a strong bias toward execution and clarity
• Ability to manage a high volume of work independently, prioritize effectively, and make sound legal judgments with incomplete information
• Commercial pragmatism and comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment without established playbooks
• Confidence using AI tools and incorporating AI to increase efficiencies in legal team delivery

Nice to have

• Experience with product liability, environmental regulations (textiles, packaging), or ESG compliance
• Experience advising on AI governance, responsible AI, or machine learning deployment and familiarity with the EU AI Act, UK pro-innovation AI regulation, and Digital Markets Act
• Experience supporting EU expansion and advising on multi-jurisdictional compliance

About the company

Quince is a destination for builders, creators, innovators, and operators. They use a manufacturer-to-consumer (M2C) model to deliver high quality essentials for low prices, fairly and sustainably.