Head of Legal

🧭 Reporting line

Group CFO. You will work closely with the Executive Leadership Team and support the Board.

👥 Team

Initially a team of one, managing a panel of external counsel across jurisdictions, with scope to build a small legal team as the Group grows.

💼 What You’ll Do

You will own your work and be accountable for results. In practice, this means:

1. Commercial contracts & deal support

• Own the customer contract suite – take full ownership of our customer-facing legal documents (MSA, Order Form, DPA, EULA, EU Data Act Addendum, Security Policy, SOW and Supplemental T&Cs) and make them complete, consistent and easy for Sales to use.
• Negotiate enterprise deals – lead redlines and negotiations on larger and more complex deals, protecting our commercial position (e.g. billing and implementation triggers, liability, service scope, payment terms) while shortening sales cycles.
• Build a contract governance model – define document ownership, approval rights, negotiation limits and fallback positions, version control, and a review cadence, and decide clearly what is Group-standard and what is country-specific.
• Localise for our markets – deliver compliant local versions where required, starting with Germany (German MSA, EULA, DPA addendum, Order Form, SOW and Security Policy).
• Support bids and procurement – provide legal input on tenders, public and enterprise procurement requirements, and customer security and compliance questionnaires.
• Handle day-to-day agreements – NDAs, partner, supplier and vendor contracts (including HR and technology vendors), and third-party liaison, mostly through templates and playbooks that the business can use on its own.

2. M&A and integration

• Support legal for our buy-and-build M&A model – lead legal due diligence, deal structuring, transaction documents and negotiations on acquisitions, working with our investors, Finance and external advisers.
• Own post-close legal integration – align contracts, entities, software licensing agreements and policies of acquired businesses with Group standards.
• Secure the people side of deals – together with People & Culture, make sure employees of acquired companies land on the right contracts, pay and benefits, and that any restructuring or redundancy process is legally sound in every jurisdiction.
• Build a repeatable playbook – so every transaction is faster, cheaper and more consistent than the last.

3. Compliance, data protection & regulatory

• Own a coherent compliance framework – across UK and EU GDPR, the EU Data Act, sector-specific data handling for enterprise clients, and other obligations, resolving overlaps and conflicts between regimes.
• Be the single legal owner of data protection – including employee data, working with the Data Protection / IT Security lead and People & Culture; oversee DSARs, data processing terms and security commitments made to customers.
• Horizon-scan and keep leadership informed – track changes in Polish, EU, UK and German law that affect the business, flag them early, and give the ELT and Board regular, clear legal updates.
• Manage disputes and exposure – handle pre-litigation, litigation and regulatory matters proactively, with the right external support.

4. Employment & people law

• Be the legal partner to People & Culture – across Poland, the UK and DACH, covering employment contracts, settlement agreements, formal complaints and grievances, ACAS and other employment disputes, and threatened legal action.
• Validate policies by jurisdiction – review and sign off HR and Group policies so they are legally sound in every country where we operate.
• Bring consistency to immigration and right to work – set a clear approach and manage the external providers we rely on.

5. Corporate governance, IP & risk

• Strengthen Group governance – support Board and shareholder matters, entity management across jurisdictions, and a clean legal structure that is ready for scrutiny from investors and future buyers.
• Protect Group IP – make sure intellectual property across all Group companies is properly owned, registered where relevant, and protected in our contracts.
• Align software licensing – bring the separate software licensing agreements of Group companies into one consistent approach, kept up to date with GDPR and governance requirements.
• Be the dedicated risk owner – replace single points of failure with clear escalation routes and faster decisions on contractual and regulatory exposure.

6. Build the legal function

• Create a clear “legal front door” – so everyone knows when and how to engage legal, with simple intake, self-service templates, FAQs and guidance for low-risk matters.
• Manage external counsel strategically – build and manage a panel of external firms, decide what goes in-house versus outside, keep work focused and commercial, and own the legal budget.
• Equip the business – train Sales, Customer Success, P&C and leaders on the legal basics that matter for their day-to-day work.

Success in your first 90 days means a clear picture of our legal risks and priorities, a simple way for the business to engage legal, and an approved plan for the contract suite. Within 12 months: a complete, version-controlled contract suite with a governance model the business actually uses; faster deal cycles on enterprise contracts; a Group compliance framework the Board is regularly updated on; lower and more predictable external legal spend; and M&A and integration running on a repeatable playbook.

✨ What You Will Bring to the Team

Here is what we are looking for:

Must have

• Qualified lawyer – you are a qualified legal professional with around 4+ years of post-qualification experience, ideally combining a top-tier law firm background with in-house experience in a technology, SaaS or scaling business.
• Commercial contracting and negotiation strength – you have drafted and negotiated complex B2B / enterprise SaaS agreements (MSA, DPA, SLA, licensing) and you know how to protect the commercial position while getting the deal signed.
• M&A experience – you have run or played a leading role in acquisitions (due diligence, SPA/APA negotiation and post-close integration), ideally in a buy-and-build or investor-backed environment.
• Multi-jurisdictional judgement – you are comfortable working across Polish, EU and UK law