SaleCycle
Legal Counsel
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Key Highlights
Job Title: Legal Counsel
Location: Gateshead, hybrid working
Reporting to: Chief Operating Officer
Working Pattern: Open to full or part-time depending on experience
Full-Time: 4-6 years PQE / experience
Part-Time: (3 days/week): 8+ years PQE / experience
Salary Range: Competitive salary + benefits
About Us
SaleCycle is redefining how brands convert, engage, and retain customers through AI-driven experiences across the entire customer journey.
SaleCycle combines real-time onsite personalisation and intent scoring with offsite activation across email, SMS, and paid channels, enabling brands to identify, engage, convert, and re-engage customers with precision.
What we do
- We provide a full-funnel Agentic Marketing Platform, combining:
- Real-time behavioural analytics and intent scoring
- AI-powered search, recommendations, and agentic decisioning
- Onsite personalisation and A/B testing
- Cross-channel activation (email, SMS, paid media)
- CRM/CDP integrations and first-party data orchestration
- Retail media and monetisation capabilities
Who we are
- We are a global team of 90+ people across the UK, France, Spain, Italy, and Eastern Europe.
- We are profitable, growing, and operating with a clear mindset:
- We build, not maintain
- We prioritise outcomes over activity
- We operate with low ego and high accountability
- We challenge ourselves to step outside our comfort zone
Our Values
- At SaleCycle, we care about people; it’s our top priority. We prioritise well-being, growth, and innovation, continuously pushing boundaries as a team and a company.
- Continuous Innovation: Collaborate, innovate, and celebrate!
- Premium Execution: Excellence Delivered Every Time!
- High Curiosity: Embrace your inner child - ask why and listen!
- Proactive Collaboration: United, we work together and lead the way!
- Ultimate Passion: Infuse passion into every action!
About the role
We are looking for a highly motivated, knowledgeable, and efficient individual to oversee all legal aspects of our business. The legal workload is predominantly contract and data privacy for our global business; the workload can touch any area of law relevant to our company. You will act as the single point of contact for legal matters internally, and be responsible for the efficient utilisation of any third-party legal expertise. Success in this role will result in a legal workload that is handled swiftly, with improved outcomes and a lower total cost of ownership.
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This is a fantastic opportunity for the successful candidate to help shape how the company handles legal matters.
Key Responsibilities
Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, you will be responsible for owning the legal touchpoints for the business and for applying your time most efficiently to meet that need. You will:
- Review the legal landscape for our business and develop, communicate, implement and own an effective support model for our legal workload, educating and supporting anyone touching that workload;
- Develop expertise and understanding of relevant SaleCycle products and build strong relationships with business stakeholders in our offices in the UK and Paris.
- Support key business stakeholders in relation to the negotiation of all commercial contract matters including customer, supplier and partner agreements as well as maintaining relevant precedents;
- Be the Company Data Protection Officer with an understanding of the relevant current and future Data Compliance legislation in key geographies, communicating it effectively to relevant business stakeholders and supporting implementation of compliance processes and systems where appropriate;
- Support the business to ensure our client contracts and our insurance dovetail, and ensure we operate within the rules and confines of our insurance;
- Identify and implement proactive legal solutions that minimise legal risks across the business; and
- Be the focal point for all other legal queries, resolving them with support from external law firms if required.
Essential Skills & Experience
- A qualified solicitor (England & Wales or equivalent) meeting one of the following criteria:
- For Full-Time Applicants: 4 to 6 years of Post-Qualification Experience (PQE).
- For Part-Time Applicants (3 days/week): 8+ years of Post-Qualification Experience (PQE).
- Strong contract negotiating and drafting skills and commercial acumen.
- Data protection experience with a specific focus on technology and marketing being desirable.
- Providing and overseeing legal support for different global jurisdictions;
- Working in an in-house environment;
- Working for a marketing or data company;
- Working in or with a small to medium growing business;
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and work independently, at pace;
- Familiar with operating in an ISO27001 certified environment.
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Our Values
At SaleCycle, we care about people; it’s our top priority. We prioritise well-being, growth, and innovation, continuously pushing boundaries as a team and a company.
- Continuous Innovation: Collaborate, innovate, and celebrate!
- Premium Execution: Excellence Delivered Every Time!
- High Curiosity: Embrace your inner child - ask why and listen!
- Proactive Collaboration: United, we work together and lead the way!
- Ultimate Passion: Infuse passion into every action!
Perks & Benefits
We value our employees at SaleCycle, so we offer great benefits, perks, and incentives in addition to a competitive salary.
- ⏱ Flexible hybrid working
- 🌴 25 days annual leave + public holidays + your birthday off
- 💗 Health Cash Plan
- 🫶 Employee Assistance Program (EAP), including 24/7 GP access
- 🏡 Life Insurance
- 💰 Up to 5% matched pension contribution
- 🚲 Tech & Cycle to Work salary sacrifice schemes
- 🎊 Annual company meet-up
- 🎉 Monthly social fund
- 🍼 Enhanced parental leave
- 💟 Volunteering Days
- 🏅 Long Service Awards
Hiring Process
For more information on our recruitment process, please see our recruitment page https://careers.salecycle.com/
Support & Equal Opportunities
If you have a medical condition or require adjustments to our process, let us know so we can support you and ensure you have the best possible interview experience.
We are an equal opportunities employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or age.
Interested? Apply now!
We’d love to hear from you! If you’re excited about this opportunity and want to be part of a fast-moving, innovative team, apply today.
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