Trainline
Deputy General Counsel
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About Us
We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.
Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄
Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 135 million monthly visits and £6.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be.
Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey.
Introducing the Trainline Legal Team 👋
The Legal team at Trainline helps the business grow with confidence by providing clear, commercially minded guidance across legal, regulatory, competition and policy matters. As we continue to make rail and coach travel simpler, smarter and more sustainable for millions of people across the UK and Europe, the team plays a critical role in helping Trainline navigate complexity, make sound decisions and deliver long-term impact.
As Deputy General Counsel, you will be a senior leader within the Legal team and a member of the Extended Leadership Team, partnering closely with the General Counsel, Executive team, Board-level stakeholders and senior leaders across the business. You will help shape Trainline’s legal and regulatory strategy across core and emerging markets, lead a high-performing team, and provide pragmatic guidance on business-critical decisions in a fast-moving and highly visible environment.
In this role as the Deputy General Counsel, you will...
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- Lead Trainline’s competition and regulatory strategy globally, helping the business anticipate and respond to evolving market dynamics while supporting sustainable growth.
- Act as a trusted strategic adviser to senior leadership, bringing clear judgement, commercial awareness and pragmatic legal input to Executive and Board-level discussions.
- Partner with teams across Legal, Product, Technology, Commercial, Policy and Finance to connect legal and regulatory considerations with business priorities, enabling confident and well-informed decision making.
- Represent Trainline with external stakeholders, including regulators and industry bodies, helping shape our market positioning and supporting constructive, credible engagement.
- Lead, coach and develop a high-performing legal team, creating clarity around priorities, strengthening capability and fostering a collaborative, commercially minded team culture.
- Oversee team strategy, planning, budgets and goals, ensuring the Legal function is set up to deliver effectively against current needs and future business ambitions.
- Support Trainline’s response to complex and high-profile matters, balancing risk, opportunity and customer outcomes with sound legal and commercial judgement.
- Help the business understand and respond to innovation, emerging technologies and evolving ways of working, including the opportunities and considerations created by AI.
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We'd love to hear from you if you have...🔍
- Significant senior legal leadership experience in regulated environments, with strong judgement and a clear understanding of how legal, policy and regulatory developments can shape business strategy.
- Experience advising Executive teams, Boards or similarly senior stakeholders on complex matters, with the ability to influence decisions in ambiguous or fast-moving situations.
- A strong track record of leading, developing and motivating teams, creating clarity, high standards and an inclusive environment where people can do their best work.
- Strong commercial judgement, with the ability to balance legal risk, business opportunity and customer impact in a practical and solutions-focused way.
- Experience working across multiple jurisdictions or markets, ideally within an international business where regulatory frameworks, stakeholders and commercial priorities vary by region.
- Confidence collaborating closely with product, technology, commercial or policy teams, helping colleagues move forward with clarity in a dynamic, cross-functional environment.
- Experience engaging with regulators, industry bodies or other senior external stakeholders, with the ability to build credibility and represent an organisation thoughtfully and effectively.
- An interest in innovation and emerging technologies, including how AI and new tools may influence legal delivery, ways of working and broader business opportunities.
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Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, 2-for-1 share purchase plans, an EV Scheme to further reduce carbon emissions, extra festive time off, and excellent family-friendly benefits.
We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days. Jump on board and supercharge your career from day one!
We're operating a hybrid model and ask that Trainliners work from the office a minimum of 60% of their time over a 12-week period. We also have a 28-day Work from Abroad policy.
Our Values
Represent The Things That Matter Most To Us And What We Live And Breathe Everyday, In Everything We Do
💭 Think Big - We're building the future of rail
✔️ Own It - We focus on every customer, partner and journey
🤝 Travel Together - We're one team
♻️ Do Good - We make a positive impact
We know that having a diverse team makes us better and helps us succeed. And we mean all forms of diversity - gender, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality and diversity of thought. That's why we're committed to creating inclusive places to work, where everyone belongs and differences are valued and celebrated.
Interested in finding out more about what it's like to work at Trainline? Why not check us out on LinkedIn, Instagram and Glassdoor!
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