General Counsel, native
£100-120k
2-3 days a week in office
Powering campus culture
Posted today
Powering campus culture
21-100 employees
Posted today
£100-120k
2-3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To help students have the best time at university by connecting them with amazing content on campus.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified solicitor (UK or common law jurisdiction) with 5+ years’ PQE
- Background in top-tier private practice and/or fast-growth in-house legal role
- Commercial, pragmatic mindset you enable, not block
- Experience across contracts, corporate law, employment, and data protection
- Comfortable working autonomously and prioritising in a fast-paced environment
- Strong communicator who builds trust across levels and functions
- Experience in tech, media, events, or platform businesses
- Understanding of startup equity, funding rounds, and international expansion
- Experience working with or within VC-backed companies
What the job involves
- As we scale across the UK and beyond, we’re looking for a commercially minded, pragmatic General Counsel to help us navigate the legal landscape and protect what we’re building
- As General Counsel, you’ll be native’s first inhouse legal hire
- You’ll be the go-to for all things legal balancing risk, enabling growth, and helping teams make sound decisions
- From commercial contracts and data protection to employment law and investor matters, you’ll play a key role in shaping how we scale
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts (client, supplier, partnership, IP, licensing)
- Acting as a thought partner to the commercial team on contract structures, risk, and compliance
- Supporting ad hoc legal queries across all functions
- Advising the CEO and exec team on corporate structuring, governance, and fundraising
- Overseeing cap table, share schemes, and investor reporting from a legal perspective
- Managing relationships with external counsel
- Managing data protection and privacy obligations (GDPR, ICO)
- Ensuring contracts and business processes align with regulatory and legal requirements
- Helping build lightweight, scalable policies to support a growing business
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Native is a platform that helps connect students with amazing experiences and have the best time at university. The idea came to life when native’s CEO, Nick Musto, realised that finding the best event or experience was near impossible amongst a sea of information at university.
Native has now evolved to empower Students’ Unions with technology and services designed to bring more content onto campuses, and allow students to seamlessly engage with it. The company has also brought hundreds of content-based shows to the university space, ranging from quiz nights to DJ sets to Q&A talks.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jul 2021
$3.5m
LATE VC
Total funding: $3.5m
Company benefits
- Share options
- Your birthday off
- Season ticket loan scheme
- Flexible working
- Dog-friendly office
- Wellbeing monthly budget
- Extended Christmas break
- Pick your kit
- Wednesday lunch on us
Company values
- We Deliver For Students
- We Are Building The Ecosystem
- We Never Stand Still
- We Have Freedom With Accountability
- We Lift Everybody Up
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Nicolas Musto
(Founder & CEO)Earned a degree in Mathematics from the University of Sussex.
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