Legal Counsel, GoCardless
£48-72k
Our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point (£48,000 - £60,000) of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role + Equity
1+ day a week in office
Making payments easier for everyone
Posted today
Making payments easier for everyone
501-1000 employees
Posted today
£48-72k
Our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point (£48,000 - £60,000) of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role + Equity
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To become the world’s bank payment network.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for a lawyer with private practice training and/or in-house experience in a fast-paced environment
- You will be driven, able to work independently and able to apply your existing knowledge and approach across a very wide range of legal (and quasi-legal) areas
- As a technology business, it helps if you have had experience in a similar area, or perhaps you have a keen interest in tech outside of your day to day work
- You are a UK qualified lawyer with 2 or 3 years PQE
- You grasp new legal concepts quickly, and are not afraid to use your common sense
- You are able to appropriately challenge ways of working and not be afraid to ask why?
- You are a self-starter who is proactive and you are willing to roll up your sleeves to get the job done
- Your communication skills are first class, and you are able to distill complex and cumbersome legalese into understandable English
- You are easy to work with, and want to work in a fun, fast-growing but demanding growing company
- And remember: we don’t expect you to meet every single requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply!
Desirable
- You have knowledge of FCA requirements or payment services
- You have experience with selling and supporting SaaS solutions
- You can explain what an API is
What the job involves
- The Legal Function is at the forefront of GoCardless’ expansion
- We must ensure that GoCardless adopts, implements and maintains forward-thinking and appropriate processes and controls, often coming across new challenges or issues that require innovative solutions
- As Legal Counsel (2 to 3 years of PQE), you will focus on a number of legal areas and advise UK teams across the business
- You will take a consultative approach and work closely with every business division- never working alone, or able to concentrate on purely legal issues
- As a member of a busy legal team you will also be expected to contribute to team-wide initiatives
- Supporting and advising every team from across the business - sales, marketing, people, product, operations
- Reviewing and negotiating customer, partnership and supplier contracts by providing pragmatic and commercial support
- Helping deal with pre-litigation, litigation and IP matters
- Helping Instruct and manage external legal counsel
- Building out and maintaining self-help tools, playbooks and guides for the legal team and for the wider business
- Focusing on constant process improvement related to high volume work - for example by iterating our contracting automation and management workflows
- Being prepared to deal with any legal issue, at any time
Our take
GoCardless has emerged to facilitate recurring payments, with a focus on streamlining the subscription economy. After securing $75M in 2019 for international expansion, the company now operates in over 30 countries, processing over $130B annually across more than 2500 for 100,000 businesses.
Recent advancements include the acquisition of Nordigen in 2022, enabling GoCardless to leverage OpenBanking functionality and establish a robust platform for direct bank-to-bank payments. The company also achieved an impressive $312 million in Series G funding in 2022. With a strategic eye on the future, GoCardless introduced GC Embed, a white-labeling product granting other payment providers access to its premier bank payment platform.
This success is underscored by the company's commitment to innovation, exemplified by its 2019 partnership with TransferWise, integrating foreign exchange rates into its services. GoCardless continues to evolve, navigating the complex landscape of recurring payments and staying ahead of competitors like Stripe and Square, who are beginning to enter the subscription economy. With a global footprint spanning the UK, France, the US, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal, and ANZ, GoCardless remains at the forefront of reshaping how businesses manage and process recurring payments on a massive scale.
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"I love that we have an environment of trying new things and if it doesn't work, it's okay, as long as you learn from it. This has enabled me to..."
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Feb 2022
$312m
SERIES G
Feb 2021
$105m
SERIES F
Total funding: $634.5m
Company benefits
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental pay
- 27 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
- Work-away scheme
- Health insurance
- 4 additional wellbeing days off per year
- Equity grant for all permanent employees
Company values
- Start With Why: We believe you can only do a job properly when you know why you are doing it. Understanding why we care about the problem motivates us to keep going until we’ve solved it
- Make it Happen: We work with urgency, and take personal accountability for getting things done in pursuit of our vision.
- Care Deeply: We care deeply about our impact on the world and those around us
- Act with Integrity: We do what’s right even when no one is watching. We don't see doing the right things as a choice — we act with integrity regardless of the cost
- Be Humble: We act without ego and don’t let excuses get in the way of achieving our goals. We believe life's too short for self-importance
Company HQ
Clerkenwell, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Hiroki Takeuchi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Hiroki and Matt met when they were consultants. They started GoCardless during Y Combinator. Hiroki was previously a Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company.
Matt Robinson
(Co-Founder & Board Member)Started company supplying waiters to events while at school, before joining McKinsey. Founded Nested Estate Agents in 2015 where they currently serve as CEO.
People progressing
Beccy joined GoCardless as a Sales Development Representative in May 2018 and has since had 3 promotions to become Senior Manager.
Steph joined GoCardless as an Intern in the Compliance team 4 years ago and she's now the Manager of the team.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at GoCardless
Lena Tailor (Director of D&I)
- Given the large number of hires we have been making in recent months, we have continuously reviewed both our hiring processes and channels to eliminate bias. We’ve introduced programs that attract diverse talent and we continuously seek to create hiring experiences that are fair, transparent and accessible by all
- We are working on creating a transparent framework for how we grow and develop talent in a scaling organisation. This will include bringing more clarity on internal career opportunities and provide clear expectations on the behaviours we want to see aligned to our values and commitment to building an inclusive organisation
- We have introduced systematic processes to help ensure compensation decisions are data-driven, fair and competitive. We have also invested in Reward capability and expertise to ensure we bring pay equity into every step of the employee journey
- Thanks to these employee-led groups we have been able to further our efforts in voluntary diversity data collection this year, to develop support for parents and carers, offer community mentoring opportunities in partnership with Career Accelerator, help to raise awareness and empathy during significant events of the past year, and importantly, offer more employees a community of people with whom they share experiences and interests
- To strengthen our commitment to D&I we have recently appointed our first Director of Diversity & Inclusion, an experienced culture change leader, which will allow us to have a more strategic and systematic approach to building a diverse and inclusive organisation for the long term and as we scale
- The Director will work with the executive team and ERGs to define clear D&I targets that GoCardless will commit to achieving over the next three years, and to develop a structured roadmap of initiatives aligned with those targets
- This will create greater clarity and accountability across the entire organisation on D&I progress
- We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of June 2022 - Female Employees - 46% - Ethnic background - 32% - Identify as LGBTQIA - 10% - Neurodivergent - 9%
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