Pinpoint
Head of Legal
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Hi 👋 I'm Ellis, COO at Pinpoint.
We're a high growth HR tech company building software that helps in house recruitment teams attract, hire, and onboard the right talent. Today we have a strong foundation in place: a mature product, rapid growth, strong product market fit, and happy customers.
We've built strong operational foundations, but we've never had a dedicated lawyer. Legal work has been landing on the ops team, contract volume is up sharply, and the product is moving into even more regulated territory. We need someone to own legal end to end so our deals keep moving and our customers stay confident, which is why we're hiring a Head of Legal.
The fine print
- This is a remote role based in the UK, with occasional in person team meetups.
- You'll be our first dedicated legal hire, so you're building the function and inheriting the old contracts and processes at the same time.
- You'll be the sole member of the legal team and will own both the judgment and the tactical work: marking up contracts, chasing signatures, building templates, and staying on top of compliance.
- There's no one to delegate to, and there's no escalation for the day to day slog.
- The volume is heavy, and the pace is fast. This role suits someone who likes to build and who's hands on; it's not a quiet compliance desk.
- Our values actually matter here. We hire people who reflect them in how they work, collaborate, and make decisions.
What you'll do
Sales legal (35%)
- Own commercial contracting end to end: our MSA, DPA and customer red lines. You're who the Account Executives bring a marked up agreement to, and you're who closes it out.
- Turn around a high volume of reviews at pace. Contract volume is spiking, driven by growth and by the rise in AI usage.
- Set and publish a legal SLA for sales, so turnaround is a promise, not a guess.
- Own our risk tolerance and playbook: liability caps, indemnities, termination. Know where we flex, where we hold, and when to escalate.
- Run legal intake: what needs you, what sales can self serve, and what genuinely needs external counsel.
- Build the playbooks, fallback positions and templates that let AEs answer the easy questions without you.
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Data protection, governance and audit readiness (30%)
- Own data protection across the business: our DPA, sub processor management, DPIAs, DSARs, records of processing and international transfers.
- Keep us on the right side of UK and EU GDPR, US state privacy law, and the local regimes that surface in deals (Quebec Law 25 and China's PIPL are recent examples).
- Make audit readiness a habit, not a scramble, with policies that reflect what we actually do.
- Get us diligence ready: corporate housekeeping, share and option documentation, and cleaning up historic contractual exposure before someone else finds it.
Product legal (20%)
- Partner with Product and Engineering as we build in a regulated space: background screening, right to work, DBS and credit checks, and AI assisted hiring features.
- Own regulatory compliance as the landscape shifts: UK and EU GDPR, FCRA, the EU AI Act, and a growing patchwork of US state law.
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Partnerships, NDAs and supplier terms (15%)
- Draft and negotiate partnership, reseller and referral agreements, including integration and marketplace partners.
- Own NDAs, supplier and vendor terms, and the contract lifecycle from template to signature to renewal.
- Keep supplier and integration partner terms robust and commercial.
What you'll bring
- 4+ years as a qualified lawyer, or as a contracts manager, legal ops lead or commercial manager with real negotiation authority.
- A clear point of view on SaaS commercial terms (what's standard, what's risky, where to flex) from owning customer side contracts end to end: MSAs, order forms, DPAs, NDAs, red lines and liability caps.
- Hands on UK and EU GDPR experience: DPAs, DPIAs, DSARs, sub processors, records of processing and international transfers, done as a practitioner, not only from a policy seat.
- Time in a scaling company (roughly 30 to 250 people), with limited resources, shifting priorities and a lot of context switching.
- Breadth over narrow specialism: happy owning everything from a small order form to our data posture to exit readiness.
- A bias toward finding the defensible yes and containing the risk, rather than blocking deals and calling it caution.
- Comfort making the call: assess the ask, propose the route, and escalate only the genuine trade offs.
- Quick to pick up new tools, and comfortable pushing AI further in your work.
- Clear, concise communication that helps other teams move.
- Self motivated and happy working independently.
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