Senior Legal Counsel

Job Description

Company Description

The Adaptavist Group is a global family of companies with a common goal. We combine the best of teamwork, technology, and processes, helping all kinds of businesses be better today and tomorrow.

We are experts at delivering enterprise software, tailored solutions, and quality services across some of the world’s most trusted technology ecosystems, including Atlassian, AWS, Slack, GitLab, monday.com and Aha!

We make change happen. From anywhere.

What we offer you

We offer a very generous holiday (PTO) allowance, trusting you to take vacation time that suits your personal life, alongside flexible working hours that empower you to work when it best fits you and your team. We provide MacBooks to all employees and additional support for fully remote workers to set up their home offices.

Our exceptional Time Away Policy includes 26 weeks of fully paid leave for birthing parents, 13 weeks for non-birthing parents, and extended leave for adoption, IVF, surrogacy, elective egg freezing, and women's health needs such as menopause, menstruation, endometriosis, and PCOS.

Our trusting, flexible, remote-first way of working means that work can fit around your life, rather than your life fitting around work.

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Job Description

This role is open to candidates in the UK or Canada.

As Senior Legal Counsel, you will support our current Head of Legal Operations in managing the Legal Operations department on an interim basis for The Adaptavist Group. This role will also deputise for the Head of Legal Operations from time to time, providing strategic and commercial legal guidance, overseeing corporate governance, and ensuring global compliance during this transitional period.

You will work closely with the CEO, COO, and other senior executives, as well as cross-functional teams including finance, HR, and product, to align legal strategy with the company’s business objectives. Also, you'll oversee legal aspects of company operations, including governance of a complex global entity structure, risk management, employment law, intellectual property, and regulatory compliance.

Finally, you'll temporarily manage a legal team of two direct reports, supporting the company’s growth and innovation while safeguarding its reputation and mitigating risks.

If you are a legal professional who can deliver clear and decisive counsel in a fast-paced, dynamic global technology environment, we would love to hear from you!

What you'll be doing

Strategy and Leadership:
- Periodically deputising for the Head of Legal Operations, offering strategic vision, direction, and temporary oversight for all legal matters across the group. This also includes interim line management for a team of two.
- Acting as a key advisor to the CEO and executive leadership on legal, governance and risk issues.
- Supporting the development and implementation of the company’s global legal strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Building and managing a high-performing legal and compliance team over time.

Corporate Governance and Compliance:
- Overseeing the corporate governance for The Adaptavist Group’s global entity structure, ensuring compliance with local and international regulations.
- Managing the company’s company secretarial responsibilities, including drafting and maintenance of board minutes, appointments and resignations, handling shareholder matters and the company’s share option scheme.
- Ensuring regulatory filings and compliance are up-to-date for all global entities, working with outsourced providers and regional offices as needed.
- Monitoring and advising on changes to laws and regulations impacting the company’s global operations.

Legal Advice and Risk Management:
- Providing legal advice across departments including intellectual property, employment law and regulatory compliance.
- Managing legal risks, balancing the company’s ability to be innovative with its exposure to liability.
- Handling crisis management and providing guidance on sensitive matters with HR on all aspects of employment law.
- Developing and maintaining legal policies and procedures to mitigate risk and promote consistency across the group company.

Commercial and Operational Support:
- Providing ad hoc assistance with contracts, company leases, and preparation of legal documents or templates;
- Leading and supporting mergers and acquisitions if required, including due diligence, contract negotiation and post-acquisition integration.
- Collaborating with product and marketing teams to ensure compliance with data protection and intellectual property laws.

Regulatory and Compliance Oversight:
- Working collaboratively to ensure global compliance with data protection regulations, including GDPR, CCPA and other applicable frameworks.
- Drafting policies and processes for managing data breaches and compliance in collaboration with the Office of the CIO and People Operations.
- Collaborating with HR and PEX to promote awareness and training for employees on legal and compliance matters, including data privacy, intellectual property and anti-bribery.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR):
- Providing leadership in developing and executing the company’s corporate social responsibility initiatives with the AdaptaKind team, aligning them with legal and ethical standards.

Qualifications

What we're looking for

- Qualified Solicitor with PQE across a range of areas, including employment, intellectual property, regulatory compliance and corporate Law.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to align legal strategies and business objectives.
- Strong interpersonal, communication and management skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels.
- Excellent organisational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects effectively.
- Commercially aware and pragmatic approach to risk management.
- Ability to handle sensitive matters discreetly and sensitively.
- Confidence to negotiate legal contracts and documentation.

Additional Information

Not ticking every box? That’s totally okay! Studies show that women and people of colour might hesitate to apply unless they meet every single requirement. At ScriptRunner, part of TAG, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse and welcoming team. If you’re passionate about this role and keen to learn and grow with us, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t have everything that's listed just yet.

Drop us your application, we’d love to hear from you!

What to expect

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Equal opportunities for everyone

At The Adaptavist Group, we are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community and believe this positively impacts both the creation of our innovative products and our delivery of bespoke solutions to our global customers and our own unique culture. We encourage all qualified applicants, regardless of age, disability, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, sex, gender identity, pregnancy and maternity, marriage, and civil partnership status. From our family-friendly policies to our flexible work environment we offer a range of benefits and policies in order to support staff from all different backgrounds. If you have any questions, please do ask us.

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We look forward to your application!