Head of Legal, MyTutor
£90-110k
2 days a week in office
Personalised online one-to-one lessons
Job no longer available
Personalised online one-to-one lessons
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£90-110k
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To provide life-changing tuition to all.
Role
Who you are
- Ideally you will have 6+ years PQE
- Experience heading up a legal department in a start-up/scale-up
- Have previously worked in a corporate law firm
- Exposure across litigation, commercial, employment & compliance
- You’ll have a good understanding of CoSec matters relevant to fast growth scale-ups
- You'll also have a proven track record of working closely with senior leadership
- You’ll be happy working in a hands-on manner - you'll never be far from the action and day to day running of your department
- You are able to successfully support people reaching the desired commercial and customer outcome in the most effective and legal/compliant way
What the job involves
- Lead a team of 5 across Legal Counsel, Compliance, Safeguarding & Legal Tech Operations
- Ensure appropriate processes and guidelines are in place to support contractual compliance in all areas
- Help MyTutor to continue growing whilst ensuring we are aligned to, and complying with the Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE) guidance and satisfying the expectations of external stakeholders
- Liaise and report to our C-suite on all areas of legal, compliance and risk
- Oversee and act on complex legal matters, assessing contentious and non- contentious issues and balancing in-house legal expertise against the need to seek managed external advice
- Responsible for the delivery of drafting/reviewing and where relevant negotiating commercial contracts (including concession/consignment, wholesale, tech, and e-com contracts) with support of COO
- Own the MyTutor risk matrix, and associated processes, to ensure it captures risks from across the business, and mitigation activity is focused in the most appropriate areas
- Own Contracts, Terms and Conditions, Safeguarding and Data (GDPR)
- Run the Safeguarding function (team of two), responsible for policies, procedures and training in place to meet our obligations
- Provide advice and support to the business on any legal and complex employment issues, including any expansion for of international operations
- Be accountable for all Legal and Compliance risks and their mitigations
- Able to distil hard to understand legal concepts into business recommendations that can be taken to the Board
- Oversee and reporting on our IP position, including any risks and mitigants
- Provide fundraising support, working alongside internal and external stakeholders and investors
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Private tutoring is a huge market traditionally dominated by expensive agencies (who charge extortionate hourly rates and take a big cut from the tutors that work for them by acting as the middleman).
The average starting price for tutoring can hit £50 an hour in London, MyTutor’s prices start from a much more affordable £18 an hour (the company can charge this low by cutting out the middle man).
MyTutor has built technologies to make online tutoring sessions smooth (e.g. it built an online whiteboard and makes it easy to share documents and upload past papers). All sessions are recorded so you can also play them back when they've finished. Along with academic support, the company prides itself in building confidence and providing mentorship.
The online EdTech industry has really blown up over the past few years and it highlighted the need for an online service that helps fill the gaps in today’s education system by delivering personalised support tailored to the individual. As MyTutor is conducted purely online, it can now really focus on providing quality education to a much wider audience.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Sep 2021
$19.8m
LATE VC
Jun 2020
$5.1m
LATE VC
Total funding: $36.9m
Company benefits
- 🏠 Hybrid & remote working options
- 👋 A global network of flexible workspaces through Desana
- 🏥 Private Healthcare options (available after 3 months’ service)
- 🌎 Up to 80 days work abroad allowance
- 🧠 A wellness day off per year (on top of your 25 days holiday entitlement)
- 🗓️ Flexible bank holidays - If you don’t celebrate the standard UK Bank Holidays, use them for other religious/ spiritual holidays that mean something to you (This doesn’t mean using them to relax on a beach – sorry!)
- 🍕 Whole company events such as chocolate tasting and LUSH pampering
- 🧙♂️ Access to our mentorship scheme
- 🤝🏼 A wide range of communities: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Pride Network, Women’s Network and Neurodivergent Network
- 📑 Inclusive Policies that safeguard and enable LGBTQ+ staff to flourish
- ⏳ Workplace pension & salary exchange scheme - 3% workplace / 5% employee contribution
- 💷 £26 monthly working from home assistance
- 👀 Free eye test vouchers
- 🚴 Cyclescheme - Borrow money to purchase a bike and pay it back through salary sacrifice (Available after you pass probation)
- 💻 Tech Scheme - Borrow money to purchase tech/white goods and pay it back through salary sacrifice (Available after you pass probation)
- 🏋️Gym Benefits - Save money on your annual membership by paying in pre-tax instalments (Available after you pass probation)
- 👶🏼 Workplace Nursery Scheme - Save tax & NI on your child’s nursery fees through salary sacrifice (Available after you pass probation)
- 📕 Up to £350 annual personal Learning & Development allowance (Available after you pass probation)
- 🏝️ A 4 week paid sabbatical once you’ve been with MyTutor for 5 years, and an extra week on top of that for every subsequent 5 years you work with us (Available after you pass probation)
- 💪MyT Flex - This is a way of working your contracted hours in a more flexible way by focusing on core hours: this allows you to prioritise things like school drop-offs, caring responsibilities and commitments that matter to you. (This is available for non-customer facing roles)
- ☀️Throughout July and August, you can take up to 8 weeks unpaid leave - you might want to take one day, as annual leave feels a bit tight, or you might want to take the full 8 weeks and have a trip of a lifetime.
Company HQ
Spitalfields, London, UK
Leadership
Bertie Hubbard
(CEO)Started their career in finance, working for Goldman Sachs and Partners Capital.
James Grant
(Managing Director)Their previous experience lies in banking and founding TutorTap, before joining MyTutor.
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