General Counsel

About the Role

As General Counsel, you will lead and continue to develop our legal team, inheriting a strong, capable group and taking it to the next stage of growth. You'll remain hands-on across commercial, corporate, compliance and operational legal matters, acting as the senior legal voice in the business and a trusted advisor to the leadership team as we continue to scale across multiple jurisdictions, manage risk, and mature our legal infrastructure, processes and governance.

Key Responsibilities

Team leadership

• Act as a strategic legal advisor to the executive team and board on key business decisions.
• Lead, manage and continue to develop our existing legal team, building further capability and capacity in line with the company's continued growth.
• Direct and manage relationships with external counsel and fractional advisers.

Corporate and governance

• Lead on corporate governance matters across the group's entities.
• Act as company secretary (or oversee this function), ensuring the business meets its ongoing corporate compliance obligations in relevant jurisdictions, including Switzerland, the UK and Germany.
• Support investor relations from a legal perspective, including shareholder communications, corporate actions and any future fundraising activity.
• Maintain and continuously improve the group's corporate structure, including subsidiary governance and inter-company arrangements as the business expands.

Commercial contracting

• Lead negotiation of high-value, bespoke commercial agreements with customers, partners and vendors, including enterprise SaaS contracts, MSAs, DPAs and strategic partnership agreements.
• Continue to refine the existing suite of template agreements and playbooks to enable faster, lower-risk deal cycles as the business scales.
• Provide pragmatic, commercially-minded legal input that balances risk mitigation with deal velocity.

Legal operations and AI governance

• Working hand-in-hand with our AI and RevOps teams, build on existing legal operations, including contract lifecycle management, legal tech tooling, workflows, knowledge management and budgeting, identifying opportunities for further improvement.
• Develop and maintain the company's approach to AI governance, including policies and frameworks for the use of AI tools internally and AI-related features within the product, working closely with product and engineering teams.
• Drive efficiency and self-service across the business through clear processes, training and accessible legal resources.

Risk management and compliance

• Identify, assess and manage legal and regulatory risk across the business, horizon scanning for upcoming changes in law and regulation across the UK, EU and further afield.
• Own and maintain the company's compliance frameworks, policies and corporate governance documentation.
• Strong working knowledge of data privacy law (UK/EU GDPR, Swiss FADP), with the judgement to apply this confidently in collaboration with the information security and data teams.

Cross-functional partnership

• Build strong working relationships with key stakeholders across finance, sales, marketing, product and information security, embedding legal input proactively in business processes.
• Support the sales team on deal structuring, contract negotiation and escalations to help close revenue efficiently.
• Partner with finance on corporate matters and governance requirements arising from the company's investor relationships.

International expansion

• Lead on the legal aspects of continued international expansion, including new entity set-up, employment and regulatory considerations, and local law advice coordination across new jurisdictions.
• Manage relationships with external counsel across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring cost-effective and high-quality legal support.

About You

• 8+ years PQE, with significant experience gained in-house in a fast-paced, dynamic scale-up environment.
• Proven experience leading and developing a small legal team in a resourceful way.
• Strong commercial experience in a SaaS business, including negotiating high-value, bespoke contracts with customers, partners and vendors.
• Demonstrable legal operations experience, with an understanding of how to approach AI governance for both internal tooling and product development.
• A track record of building effective partnerships with stakeholders across finance, sales, marketing, product and infosec.
• Strong risk management skills, with the ability to horizon scan and anticipate emerging legal and regulatory issues.
• Experience supporting international/global expansion, ideally across UK, European and US jurisdictions.
• Excellent judgement, with a pragmatic, solutions-oriented and commercially astute approach to legal advice.
• Strong and effective communication and influencing skills, comfortable operating at board level.
• Will hold and maintain a legal practising certificate with the SRA in England (highly preferred)

Nice to Have

• An AI-first mindset, with experience embedding AI tools into legal workflows to drive efficiency
• Swiss law experience
• Experience supporting M&A or other corporate transactions
• Financial services regulatory experience, in particular familiarity with the regulatory landscape for equity/share plan administration across jurisdictions
• Experience inheriting an existing legal team

Being part of Ledgy means:

• Recharge and re-energize with flexible working hours, 25 days of vacation, and up to 40 days of remote work from outside your home country
• We make space for your own professional development, with a generous yearly learning & development budget
• This role will receive a competitive salary + benefits + equity. All salaries are aligned with competitively benchmarked ranges based on work location and levelling
  • Private health insurance
  • Enhanced parental leave
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
• This is a London-based role with a hybrid work model of 2 days in the office per week

Ledgy is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.