Director of Legal, Blink
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3-5 days a week in office
Enterprise app that empowers frontline workers
Job no longer available
Enterprise app that empowers frontline workers
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
+ Equity
More information about location
3-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
Blink's mission is to empower frontline workers to maximise their impact.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified lawyer with at least 3 years PQE (we are open to discussions on PQE for the right candidate)
- General all-rounder with particular experience with technology contracts (particularly SaaS), other commercial technology issues and data protection
- Experience in-house in a start-up/scale-up or with start-up/scale is essential
- Comfortable working independently as sole counsel on an array of matters, from legal BAU to strategic initiatives
- Strong negotiation skills and the ability to handle competing priorities, deadlines and stakeholders
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced legal professional, reporting directly to our Chief Operating Officer to join Blink and shape our contracting strategy, support our global sales team, and drive legal initiatives across Blink
- You’ll negotiate key agreements, streamline processes, and ensure we stay ahead on compliance and governance—all while playing a crucial role in our business growth
- Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of commercial contracts, including customer contracts (on our standard terms and on client paper), vendor agreements, NDAs, and partnership agreements, working in particular with our global sales team
- Update our suite of terms and policies for new features, AI and legal developments
- Provide guidance on contract terms and potential liabilities to mitigate legal risks to the sales and customer success teams
- Implement contract management processes and systems to streamline Blink’s legal function and contracting processes
- Work cross-functionally to respond to RFPs, advising on legal governance, contract terms and data protection
- Provide legal advice to all areas of the business across practice areas
- Advance and implement legal strategies to support business objectives, growth initiatives, and risk management and work cross functionally on achieving them
- Identify potential legal risks to the organization and develop strategies to minimize exposure
- Work with and manage relationships with outside counsel where necessary
- Keep Blink on top of applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards
- Advise on corporate governance, board responsibilities, and shareholder matters
- Manage the employee share option plan, including grants, exercises and plan evolution
- Prepare corporate documents, filings, and statutory records to maintain compliance
- Provide legal training to internal stakeholders, particularly on compliance matters, data protection and sales contracts
- Promote legal awareness across the organization to foster a culture of compliance appropriate to our business stage and growth
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Apps catering to frontline workers are seeing a surge of interest in the market these days, as businesses finally start to wake up to using tech to better connect with these employees, and investors eye up an interesting and new growth opportunity in enterprise IT.
Blink’s particular approach has been to try to create a user interface, and functionality, that caters both to asynchronous activities as well as real-time information, the idea being that front-line workers are most likely not going to be looking at the app continuously throughout the day, so the priority for making sure important things surface when they do is especially higher.
Blink was founded in London — where it has found strong traction with metropolitan bus networks and the NHS (where thousands of frontline workers in clinical and nonclinical roles are on Blink).
Now Blink is HQ’d in New York in an attempt to focus on the U.S. market. There are an estimated 2.7 billion people working on the front line according to the company, so there’s a fair amount of room for growth despite an increasingly competitive landscape with well-funded projects like Justworks, Workplace from Meta and When I Work.
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Company
Employee endorsements
Growing fast
"This is what attracts me to SAAS based organisations early in their growth. There is a real opportunity to be part of the 'Blink Story' and my role..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2021
$17.7m
SERIES A
May 2020
$10.3m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $28.6m
Company benefits
- Generous equity allocations with significant upside potential
- All the traditional benefits such as Health Insurance (AXA Health), Ride2Work and Pension schemes
- Ability to grow, learn and solve a variety of challenges, working in a supportive environment with smart, driven people
- Office fridge filled with snacks and drinks, regular team lunches and socials
- The opportunity to be part of something impactful, large-scale, meaningful & fulfilling
- 25 days holiday (excl. bank holidays)
Company values
- Always aim to delight - Own the outcome and exceed expectations
- Move fast and think big - Be curious, inquisitive and set the agenda
- Be a positive catalyst - Inspire positive change with a helpful attitude
- Never stop learning - We thrive when sharing knowledge and supporting each other
Company HQ
Barbican, London, UK
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Leadership
Sean Nolan
(CEO)Previously worked as Network & Security Engineer at Morse for 2 years and co-founded Tomorrow Communications
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Blink
Blaise Daldin (Sourcing Lead)
- We know there’s much more to be done, and are actively invested in driving deep, meaningful change towards broader representation in our workforce. All leaders and employees involved in the hiring process will undergo inclusion and unconscious bias training, while looking to support and partner with diverse communities and networks at every opportunity.
- Diversity and inclusion remain our #1 priority as the team continues to grow. We’ve added new recruitment initiatives over the past six months to attract a wide range of applicants that generates a diverse shortlist for every new role. We’ve also reviewed our employer branding and advertising to ensure content and language are inclusive throughout. So far, this has improved our gender balance by 20%:
- Blink is committed to nurturing a culture of belonging that celebrates diversity in all its forms – and encourages employees to bring their whole selves to work.
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