# Associate Legal Counsel

**Company**: GoCardless, a Mollie company
**Location**: Leeds, UK
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £64,000 - £96,000
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As Associate Legal Counsel (5 to 8 years of PQE), you will focus on a number of legal areas and advise UK teams across the business.

The key responsibilities of this role include:

- Support and advise the Partner team and negotiate strategic Partner deals

- Support and advise the Go-To-Market teams in the UK on the most strategic and/or highest value deals

- Work closely with your manager to support on strategic projects

- Work on specific projects, for example when we roll out new templates/launch new products

- Review and negotiate customer, partnership and supplier contracts by providing pragmatic and commercial support

- Supervise more junior lawyers on negotiations or on specific files

- Instruct and manage external legal counsel

- Build out and maintain self-help tools, playbooks and guides for the legal team and for the wider business

- Focus on constant process improvement related to high volume work - for example by iterating our contracting automation and management workflows

- Be prepared to deal with any legal issue, at any time.

We're looking for a lawyer with private practice training and/or in-house experience in a fast-paced environment. You will be driven, able to work independently and able to apply your existing knowledge and approach across a very wide range of legal (and quasi-legal) areas.

Desired skills:

- Experience negotiating complex contracts with sophisticated counterparties

- Experience reviewing marketing materials in accordance with applicable laws and regulations

- Grasp new legal concepts quickly, and are not afraid to use your common sense.

- Able to appropriately challenge ways of working and not be afraid to ask why.

- Self-starter who is proactive and willing to roll up your sleeves to get the job done.

- First-class communication skills, and able to distill complex and cumbersome legalese into understandable English.

- Love tech and tools, and love exploring how they can contribute to efficiency and customer experience.

- Enjoy project management and thrive on operational efficiency.

Base salary range: £64,000 - £96,000

Benefits:

- Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover

- Work away scheme - gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period

- Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle

- Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure

- Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget

- Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)

## Skills

### Required
- private practice experience
- in-house experience
- contract negotiation
- marketing materials review
- project management

### Nice to have
- FCA requirements
- payment services
- IP management
- SaaS solutions
- API knowledge

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