GetGround
Legal and Compliance Director
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Legal and Compliance Director
Legal and Compliance Director – GetGround
We're looking for a Legal and Compliance Director to own and build our legal, regulatory, and compliance function as GetGround scales its regulated financial services and property investment platform. This is a role for a highly commercial lawyer—someone who has operated at a senior level, built or led a legal and compliance function, and is ready to help shape and drive a transformative business on the frontier of fintech, proptech, and wealthtech.
You’ll shape how a fast-growing business—operating at the intersection of technology and real estate finance—manages risk, meets regulatory obligations, and earns the trust of customers, regulators, and partners as we expand beyond our current markets.
This reporting directly to the COO.
The Opportunity
GetGround has grown significantly since we last recruited for this function. We now:
- Manage £2Bn+ in assets on platform
- Serve 30,000+ users across 70 countries
- Offer a portfolio of regulated products spanning:
- Mortgages
- Property management
- Investment tools
Our ambition is to grow further, with plans to enter new geographies. The legal and regulatory function must be ready to support this scaling.
You won’t just be overseeing compliance operations—you’ll shape the whole function. This means:
- Defining and effecting strategic direction
- Building scalable frameworks that can adapt to new markets
- Being the go-to person for high-stake decisions
Key Priorities:
- Champion AI and legal technology adoption to streamline workflows, including:
- Contract review
- Regulatory research
- Compliance monitoring
- Drive innovation and efficiency within the legal and compliance teams
- Be the business midfielder between legal risk and commercially driven ambition
What You’ll Be Doing
Legal Leadership
- Own all legal aspects across:
- Corporate law
- Commercial agreements
- Intellectual property (IP)
- Employment law
- Data protection and privacy
- Product-related legalities
- Fundraising and capital-raising processes
- Drive geographic expansion, aligning legal and regulatory strategies for new markets
- Lead and negotiate high-value commercial partnerships, including:
- Customer contracts
- Supplier agreements
- Serve as the legally informed advisor to:
- The CEO
- Leadership team (across Product, Engineering, Operations, and Marketing)
- During the launch of new products
- When entering new jurisdictions
- Manage relationships with external counsel with rigorous, commercially-minded oversight
- Develop scalable legal infrastructure through:
- Standardized templates
- Key processes
- Decision playbooks
- Team training and upskilling
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Regulatory Compliance
- Serve as the primary accountable person for:
- FCA compliance across all products and markets, including:
- Consumer Duty obligations
- Code of Banking Practice (COBS)
- Mortgage Conduct of Business Rules (MCOB)
- FCA compliance across all products and markets, including:
- Appoint (and oversee) the:
- Compliance Officer
- Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO)
- Take full responsibility for:
- AML/Anti-financial crime frameworks
- Know Your Customer (KYC) implementations
- Lead proactive FCA engagement, fostering relationships that will:
- Align with future regulatory expectations
- Support smoother market expansions
- Ensure all:
- Regulated communications
- Marketing materials
- Customer-facing content comply with FCA (and applicable regulations)
Risk Management
- Design and owner the enterprise risk framework, including:
- Defining risk appetite
- Establishing governance structures
- Implementing risk-reporting processes
- Lead risk identification, assessment, and mitigation across all business functions
Building the Team and Culture
- Develop, grow, and manage a high-performing legal and compliance team to scale with GetGround
- Foster a compliance culture that:
- Enables the business, rather than obstructing it
- Aligns with GetGround’s principle-driven but pragmatic ethos
- Be a strategic partner across functions, including:
- Finance
- Product
- Engineering
- Operations
- Marketing
About You
You are a qualified solicitor with exceptional judgement—more than just technical legal expertise. You’ve developed the other critical skill sets to run the function independently:
- Senior legal leadership:
- 8+ years post-qualification experience (PQE)
- Proven track record of building or leading a legal function
- Commercial instincts:
- Prioritize business growth first, with risk minimized
- Earned trust from senior executives to make balanced calls about risk vs. innovation
- Specialized knowledge of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA):
- Hands-on experience with consumer-focused obligations (Consumer Duty)
- Deep familiarity with:
- Conduct of Business Sourcebook (COBS)
- Mortgage Conduct of Business (MCOB)
- Experience in compliance and financial crime:
- Skilled in designing and embedding proportionate AML/KYC frameworks
- International mindset:
- Comfortable operating across different jurisdictions
- Curiosity and adaptability to explore novel markets
- People leadership:
- Strong interpersonal skills and talent development expertise
- Builds high-trust teams that collaborate seamlessly
- Board-level credibility:
- Comfortable explaining legal/compliance risks to executives
- Ability to advocate persuasively even when lacking formal authority
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Highly Desirable Qualifications
- Prior hands-on experience with property, mortgage, or investment products regulations
- Business experience in international or emerging markets’ compliance pipelines
- Hold or previously held a named FCA-approved person status
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What We’re Building
The first end-to-end real estate investment framework, making the dream of owning real estate accessible, simple, and globally achievable—for everyone.
Diversity and Inclusion at GetGround
We welcome and celebrate diversity at every level of culture, innovation, and performance:
- 42% of employees identify as female or non-binary
- 58% male
- 22 nationalities represented across offices in 5 countries
- Committed to level diversity in salary—remaining fair, transparent, and equitable
- Support employees’ needs through initiatives, resources, and inclusive policies
At the heart of our culture are:
- A commitment to design accessibly for all users
- Celebrating and committing to:
- Black History Month
- International Women’s Day
- Pride Month General influence on design, brand, and partnerships.
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