General Counsel (Hybrid/Remote UK)

Wherever you find ambitious companies investing in their people, you’ll find Learning Pool

Learning Pool is among the fastest growing e-learning companies in the world, servicing more than 2,000 customers and 24 million learners globally. Our expert team creates the content and technology solutions that engage and empower modern leaders, using pioneering technology and creative content that we build, deliver and maintain to produce positive, long lasting outcomes for our customers.

Learning Pool welcomes passionate people from all kinds of backgrounds. We are a diverse team working in offices, and remotely, across Europe and North America. We take great pride in our shared work and are committed to building great software in a sustainable way.

So if you’ve got what we’re looking for and the desire to join a team that values creativity and empowerment, then get in touch.

About the role

The role will be responsible for overseeing and managing the provision of Learning Pool’s global legal services. More importantly, you’ll build relationships across our leadership team and demonstrate the value of a proactive in-house legal partnering.

For more information about our benefits and why you should join learning pool, read more here:https://learningpool.com/why-work-for-learning-pool/

Location: Flexible within the UK. The vast majority of our people work flexibly in a hybrid model, working from home with regular attendance at one of our Learning Pool Offices (Derry, Nottingham, Oxford, Belfast or Glasgow).

What you will be doing

Roles and responsibilities include:

• Provide timely and commercially focused advice to senior business stakeholders around a variety of legal matters.
• Draft, review and negotiate a wide variety of commercial agreements and ancillary documents for our UK and US client base.
• Manage any employment, commercial, and IP litigation and claims as they arise.
• Manage the in house legal team, sharing best practice and offering development opportunities.
• Review, improve and then maintain the tools required for a successful in-house legal capability (contract database, standard T&Cs, standard agreements, etc).
• Work closely with our Chief Compliance Officer advising on data protection compliance and obligations, in particular GDPR implementation projects, researching data protection issues and necessary notifications.
• Assist and advise with policies and procedures for information security, including work relating to the group’s ISO27001 certification and any further certifications
• Assist the Head of HR on the management of employment matters
• Present to the board, as appropriate, on legal matters.
• Manage external legal counsel relationships and legal budget.
• Administer our employee equity scheme and shareholder/investor arrangements.
• Oversee the corporate structure of the Group, including an overseas subsidiary.
• Advise on special projects including M&A, as required.

Who we are looking for

The successful candidate will have:

• Qualified lawyer with 5+ years post-qualification experience within a City law firm or large regional firm.
• Experience in drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, ideally in a SaaS environment for both a US and UK client base.
• Excellent academic and legal credentials.
• Entrepreneurial, commercially oriented and creative.
• Strong sense of urgency and achievement.
• Excellent organisation and time management skills.
• Ability to successfully manage a high volume of work with competing deadlines and multiple stakeholders.
• Comfortable in an informal scaling tech company environment.
• Outstanding written and interpersonal communication skills.
• A strategic business partner who balances risk and opportunity and enables the business to make smart decisions.
  
• Gives strategic legal advice and challenge combined with pragmatism

Although not essential, it would be advantageous to have experience working with the following:

• Familiarity with company law and experience of corporate transactions.
• Familiarity with data protection, privacy and security issues.
• In house-experience in a scaling SaaS/Tech organisation with international exposure.

Working at Learning Pool

With over 450 people across seven offices globally, the Learning Pool team is filled with people who have a real passion for what they do and a fresh approach to partnering with customers.

Learning Pool is a Platinum Investor in People, listed annually in the Sunday Times Best Companies to Work For and wins numerous industry awards for our work with clients including the Queen's Award for Enterprise (Innovation) and recent Brandon Hall, Learning Technologies, e-Learning Industry, Stevie Customer Service and Institute of Customer Service awards. In addition, the Group is the only Strategic Leader offering Lower Total Cost of Ownership solutions in the 2022 Fosway Digital Learning 9-Grid.

Closing date for receipt of applications is 20th February 2023 at 5pm