Orbital
Legal Talent Partner
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Senior Legal Talent Partner
Orbital Copilot is the AI assistant designed exclusively for commercial real estate law, transforming how real estate transactions work with up to 70% faster due diligence while maintaining legal-grade precision.
About the Mission
We’re revolutionising real estate transactions, making them smarter, faster, and friction-free. Currently, the chain of legal processes remains sluggish, composed of manual processes that need urgent innovation.
At Orbital, we solve this. Our AI-powered assistant is developed with input from experienced real estate lawyers, driving efficiency in an industry that’surgently outdated. We’ve recently raised $60m in Series B funding to push forward our growth in both the UK and US.
We’re trusted by top-tier firms like Goodwin and BCLP for removing the legal headcount that allows teams to focus on delivering great legal outcomes and closing deals with confidence.
Why Join Orbital
Training in this space means you’ll be:
- Reimagining real estate transactions, working collaboratively to push the boundaries of this sector.
- Moving fast while maintaining high standards of consistency and ownership from day one.
- Shaping the way deals get done, turning challenges into opportunities.
The Role
The Core Responsibility
We’re seeking a Legal Talent Partner, who will drive recruitment, evaporation, and scaling of essential specialist roles within Orbital. Over the next 12 months, there's a pipeline of 15+ legal engineering and solutions architect roles to focus centralised around hiring.
What You’ll Deliver
**Responsibility for hiring **:
- Co-ordinate the entire recruitment process for Legal Engineers and Legal Solutions Architects.
- Collaborate with Product, Growth (GTM), and leadership to outline ideals for each role.
- Embed engaging, efficient, and thorough processes to assess candidates.
Bring a niche credibility to the table:
- Communicate effectively in the legal realm with special attention to real estate law experienced candidates.
- Establish Orbital’s position as a foremost source for innovators and specialists, reinforcing our reputation.
Define and cultivate recruitments:
- Showcase Orbital as the linchpin for lawyers seeking rewarding, deliberate, and non-practicing paths in AI and legal tech.
- Promote a clear vision, and the successful transition from private practice or in-house roles into legal operations/tech.
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A candidate experience that makes them squeal:
- Guide talent through their career crossover, bridging the gap between their current status and the limited pool of possible progressive development within Orbital.
- Maintain transparency throughout the process, manage expectations honourably, and illuminate long-term growth opportunities.
Partnership with hiring teams:
- Coach interviewers on evaluating legal and technical competencies effectively.
- Supply market intelligence, tracking potential candidates, their expectations, compensation offerings, and recruiting activities of competitors.
- Ensure confident, informed hiring decisions leveraging both operational data and intuition.
Who We're After
This is scrawny perfection: we’re on the lookout for those candidates who possess a fluctuating array of skills.
Must-Have Skills:
- Proven recruiting experience: demonstrated history of recruiting lawyers—whether independently, internally, or within legal tech.
- Legal fluency: Aunque no todas necesiten ser abogadas, el candidato debe poder tener una vaga comprensiĂłn del mundo del derecho inmobiliario. Esto incluye conocer especialidades, la diferencia entre roles de menor y mayor seniority, y la calificaciĂłn legal a nivel internacional.
- Engagement with lawyers: set aptitude for motivating career-shift lawyers, their hesitations, and a genuine fascination for technology transfer.
- Pipeline-building skills: know how to proactively reach out to passive candidates, tap into specialist communities, and transform interest into catalyst.
- Balancing speed and rigor: The ability to operate then within fast-moving, high-growth environments.
- Storytelling skills: ability to succinctly explain why join Orbital and how this shift aligns with their professional development.
Nice to have:
- Prior experience hiring for legal-tech specific focuses such as legal engineering, legal operations, product adjacent legal roles.
- Thorough grasp of US state bar regulations and/or UK licensing frameworks and the real estate legal landscape.
- Proven experience in hiring multinational teams or scaling through once startup fundraising stages.
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Why This Role Matters
Hiring in this role is impressingly impactful:
- Lay the infrastructure for Orbital’s AI development and adoption, ensuring fast growth.
- Access critical talent to further substantive technological innovation, propelling Orbital's growth.
- Immediate, dynamic engagement paired with a substantial scope of responsibility.
Compensation & Benefits
Our aptitude for rewarding performance keeps our team content:
- Competitive salary: ÂŁ66,000-107,000, openly shared, implementing flat pay security and reducing any biases in compensation.
- Pension match to optimize contribution and build dependable long-term funds.
- 25 Paid Holiday days plus holiday align with broader public holidays.
- Generous parental leave, accommodating both parents, recognising non-traditional care structures as essential.
- Flexible hybrid workspace withi-london HQ providing an enjoyable presence around 3 days weekly.
- Full-quality equipment and a ÂŁ1,000 yearly personal development budget align to constantly mastery-growing learning.
- Cycle-to-work offering.
Security Expectations
Security at Orbital is as vital as the code we embed:
- Engage continuously with our security policies.
- Participate in regular awareness and cybersecurity training.
- Adhere to ISO 27001 standards when handling data meticulously.
Report any inv Newfoundland incidents or never to dedicated incidents team to help maintain strengthened trust in our security setup.
Inclusive Culture
Orbital is powered by a diverse and united team. We greatly encourage applications from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech:
Even if you don’t tick every box or the opportunity isn’t published, we’d be pleased to have you. Prioritizing our potential as people, we look forward to seeing where growth can occur. Your contribution could be integral to Orbital's versatility.
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