Legal Counsel, Griffin

Commercial

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Senior level

London

Remote from UK

Full-stack Banking-as-a-Service platform with a banking license

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Full-stack Banking-as-a-Service platform with a banking license

101-200 employees

FintechBankingPaymentsFinancial Services

Job no longer available

Salary not provided

+ Stock options

Senior level

London

Remote from UK

101-200 employees

FintechBankingPaymentsFinancial Services

Company mission

To simplify the complexity of banking infrastructure and compliance operations, so their customers can focus on what they really care about.

Job

Company

Role

Who you are

At least 2 years of PQE
Experience negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements
You have a bias to action and desire to work from first principles: spending time to really understand how we can make legal contracts and processes easily understandable to our customers
A high degree of comfort adopting new software tools for document drafting, collaboration and communication
A love of writing - we have a major amount of written documentation that you will be contributing to, and we place a high degree of importance on clarity and readability

What the job involves

You will be our third hire within the space and you’ll be working directly alongside our Company Secretary, Amy, primarily supporting our commercial team
You will have a real and meaningful impact on the success of the commercial deals at Griffin, as we lay the foundations for the future of global financial infrastructure
Assist the commercial team with drafting, reviewing and negotiating a range of commercial contracts
Provide support and legal advice to all other Griffin teams on major legal projects across the business
Advise on regulatory issues such as data protection and the use of data within commercial arrangements
Resolve issues that arise in existing commercial relationships
Ensure all Griffin contracts and legal documentation are drafted in plain english in line with our tone of voice
Help develop the fledgling legal operations team at Griffin including how we think, our processes and ways of working

Salary benchmarks

Our take

Griffin is working to change the banking world, which they see as exclusive, opaque, and not particularly technology-friendly. Their aim is to lower barriers to entry for fintechs and increase transparency.

To achieve this, they are designing a wholesale bank from the ground up, focusing on the problems their customers face and following steps to solve them.

Griffin is taking a novel approach, offering a bank-as-a-platform model with integrated compliance to allow customers to get their financial products to market quickly and cost-effectively.

Their systems have the capability to move faster than existing banks burdened by legacy tech and provide new opportunities to financial technology firms over a wide range of business models.

Steph

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

39% female employees

67% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.7)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)

Jul 2025

$1.8m

SERIES A

Mar 2024

$25.3m

SERIES A

Total funding: $71.8m

Company benefits

Life insurance through AIG
Generous stock option grants for everyone at the company
Private medical insurance through Vitality
A weekly team lunch on Griffin (even when you're working remotely)
Auto-enrolment into company pension scheme
25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
Remote first working culture, If you want to to work from home you can and you can expense your office set up. Equally, we have an office in London where you can work, as well as the ability to work from shared working spaces
Up to 6 months fully paid parental leave (depending on tenure)
Annual(ish) company offsite

Company HQ

City of London, London, UK

Leadership

Allen Rohner

(CTO)

Previously founded CircleCI and authored the book Learning ClojureScript with co-founder David.

David Jarvis

(CEO)

Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Standard Treasury and Airbnb.

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