Who we are
Founded in 2014 in London, United Kingdom, Garrison has raised more than $70m to date from London investors including Dawn Capital, IP Group, NM Capital and BGF. Garrison’s strengths lie in its experienced and dedicated teams, building on years of expertise in cyber security to bring genuinely game changing technology to the industry.
Garrison is working to build the future of cyber security and is already deploying at scale in both the government and commercial space. Our existing customers are large organisations averaging over 50,000 employees each, across sectors including banking, insurance, media, telco, law and government.
Our working culture
We are an exciting start-up with ground-breaking technology; a very serious mission to solve real world problems, but with a positive and highly inclusive atmosphere, and an excellent work/life balance!
At Garrison we celebrate diversity and inclusion, and we’re focused on continuously improving equality for the benefit of our employees, products and community. We recruit, develop and retain talent purely on the basis of qualifications, merit and business needs.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we take every possible step to ensure that every person employed or seeking employment with us receives fair treatment. No-one shall be disadvantaged on the grounds of age, disability, gender, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital and parental status, neurodiversity, social background, physical ability, illness or otherwise.
Requirements
Overview of the role
This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious, diligent and commercially astute Legal Counsel to join an innovative and steadily growing scale-up, where you will be tasked with supporting the entire business as a trusted advisor and commercial contracts lawyer.
Working in a small legal team and reporting to the Head of Legal, you will provide a full range of commercial legal support to Garrison and its group companies (with main focus on UK and US), you will enjoy a varied workload and have the opportunity to collaborate closely with the with the senior executives and the whole business. The primary focus will be on supporting the Sales team on B2B customer contracts, but you will also provide support to the Engineering and Production Teams, the Marketing Team, the HR Team and the Finance Team, on a variety of legal matters, and crossfunctional projects.
Prior experience of working with cyber security and/or SaaS solutions would be desirable but not essential, however you will need solid experience of drafting, reviewing and advising on commercial contracts in the field of technology, supporting a variety of different legal activity, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
This is a permanent role for the right candidate. The role could be offered on either a full-time or part-time basis subject to a minimum of 32 hours a week .
Key Responsibilities
· Drafting, reviewing, amending, negotiating, interpreting and advising on a range of commercial contracts (UK, US and international), Tamp;Cs and other legal documents (seeking input from other advisers and stakeholders as appropriate), with a main focus on agreements relating to equipment and component supply, hardware sales, software licensing and cloud services.
· Owning all elements of contract review and negotiation from draft to signature for multiple customers concurrently.
· Providing a pragmatic in-house legal support service to all of the group companies and to support the mitigation of risk arising from any legal, regulatory, compliance or governance issues.
· Accurately recording information, filing contract drafts and executed contracts and maintaining up to date our contract template databases, internal guides and playbooks.
· Providing support on privacy and data protection matters, reviewing Data Processing Agreements and assisting in implementing data protection and security regulations.
· Assisting with supplier matters such as supplier audits, contract reviews and negotiations, and marketing reviews.
· Coaching, support and mentoring of less experienced team members as they develop commercial experience.
· Providing legal, data protection, privacy and compliance related training initiatives to the business as and when required.
· Supporting and leading on negotiations with customers.
· Helping address opportunities for contract and process improvements both globally and on a local basis.
· Ad-hoc management of challenging projects within the Legal department.
Skills amp; experience required
You’ll be perfect if you have the following skills/experience:
· Qualified to practise law in the UK, with practical training at a law f