carwow is looking for a Legal Counsel or Senior Legal Counsel to join our team in London. We’ve introduced a new remote-first flexible working policy which means you’ll be working from home for the majority of the week with 1-2 days max in the office (unless you prefer to be based in the office more frequently).
About the role
We are looking for an energetic, enthusiastic and experienced Legal or Senior Counsel to join our Legal and Compliance team as maternity cover on a 12 month fixed term basis. There is potential for the role to be made permanent following the maternity cover fixed term, depending on the right candidate.
This role can either be full time, or part time, depending on the applicant.
What you will be doing:
- Drafting and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements, partnership agreements and licences
- Ensuring ongoing compliance with GDPR and associated rules
- Providing legal support to our existing European teams
- Working closely with our product teams as our product offering evolves
- Supporting our editorial team who produce YouTube videos
- Advising on regular corporate law issues, including Mamp;A and funding rounds
- Managing employee share incentive schemes and providing legal support to the people team on employment law issues
- Working with our external advisors on IP portfolio management and oversight
- Supporting company secretarial activities
- Managing our FCA regulated activities, and liaising with regulators (FCA, ASA) when required
- Assisting our General Counsel as required.
Requirements
- We’re looking for an English qualified lawyer with strong private practice training, followed by in-house experience in a fast-paced tech focused environment.
- You will need the ability to grasp new legal concepts quickly and be able to distill and explain them in a clear and coherent manner.
- Strong communication skills are essential, together with a proactive, persuasive and adaptable manner.
- You will be required to operate at exec level, apply a long term and strategic focus and be commercially astute.
- Proficiency in German and/or Spanish would be beneficial.
- We envisage that candidates between 3 and 7 years PQE will have the relevant skills / knowledge for this position, however this is an approximate guide for applicants and we are happy to consider the applications of candidates who fall outside of this PQE range but who have the relevant experience.
Benefits
- A competitive salary
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays and Christmas Eve
- Financial: Private pension scheme, salary sacrifice benefits (i.e. cycle to work), Travel Loan
- Flexible working: For those that want to, you'll be able to work from home for the majority of the week, with up to 2 days max in the office. You’ll be eligible for a ‘home office allowance’ of up to 500/550 to help get set up with everything you need to succeed at home. We also have a new ‘work from anywhere for a month each year' policy in place should you wish to use it.
- Office: When we are in the office, a dog-friendly office in Victoria, with free refreshments and a variety of breakout spaces (let Mat Watson take you for a spin around our office here).
- Social: Company wide collaboration such as bi-weekly product demos, coffee with the exec sessions, culture club, social events (currently virtual)
Equal Opportunity Statement
At carwow, we appreciate the value that comes from having diverse employees. Whether that be diversity of age, disability, sex, gender, sexuality, pregnancy, race or religion, we strive to create a team where anybody can thrive. We strongly believe a varied workforce creates a more innovative company with a broader perspective. Wherever you’re from, whatever you believe, all we ask is that you have drive and share our company values (you can view them here).
About carwow
Buying a car is the 2nd biggest financial decision people make after buying a house, and it’s an incredibly complex one. Consumers face many challenges in the process: from choosing the right car to buy, to making sure they’re getting a good deal - here at carwow we aim to fix them all.
From an attic to the 6th fastest growing company in Europe in 2018; carwow is an online marketplace making car buying better for everyone. Car buying is one of the last areas to be revolutionised by the internet - here at carwow we’re leading the online revolution.
We’re a highly driven (excuse the pun), energetic scale-up with a team of around 200 based in London, Munich and Madrid. We’re backed by some of Europe’s leading VCs amp; car manufacturer Daimler (Mercedes-Benz) with nearly 80m of total funding raised.
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