Legal Counsel, Cutover
£75-85k
+ Share Options
Collaborative automation platform
Posted today
£75-85k
+ Share Options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To enable enterprises to successfully manage their IT disaster recovery, cloud migration, and release strategies.
Role
Who you are
- A qualified solicitor in England and Wales with 2–4 years' PQE with strong training and preferably some in-house experience
- Proven commercial contracts experience gained in a SaaS or technology business, with confident handling of order forms, MSAs, DPAs, SLAs, supplier contracts and NDAs
- Experience in data protection, AI and IP, with the appetite to keep pace with a fast-moving regulatory landscape
- Exposure to businesses with a US footprint is preferred
- Experience either working within, or dealing with, highly regulated businesses is preferred (for example, businesses exposed to material outsourcing rules, DORA and/or the EU AI Act)
- Experience of implementing and using legal tech to drive efficiency
- The ability to work autonomously and manage a high volume of varied work as part of a small, busy team, spanning both customer and supplier matters
- Strong technical legal ability combined with a commercial, pragmatic approach, and the communication skills to advise a wide range of non-legal stakeholders with clarity
- A willingness to mentor and support junior members of the legal team
- A collaborative working style, strong problem-solving skills, and a genuine keenness to learn and take ownership
What the job involves
- This is a rare chance to own a broad, genuinely varied legal remit at a company whose technology runs some of the most critical operations in global finance. You'll be one of three people in a close-knit, high-trust legal team: which means autonomy, influence, and a front-row seat to how a scaling technology business works. One day you might be closing an enterprise deal with a major bank; the next, shaping how we approach AI, data and IP. You'll be the go-to partner for teams across Sales, Finance, People, Engineering, InfoSec and Product, turning knotty legal questions into clear, commercial answers that keep the business moving
- Drafting and maintaining a full suite of customer-facing documents, including order forms, master services agreements (MSAs), data processing agreements (DPAs) and service level agreements (SLAs) - and leading negotiations with sophisticated counterparties on those documents, balancing commercial goals with business risk mitigation
- Working closely with the General Counsel on strategic projects that shape how the business grows
- Supporting our Junior Legal Counsel in handling supplier and procurement contracts end to end, from NDAs through to negotiated vendor agreements, assessing and mitigating third-party risk
- Advising stakeholders across Sales, Finance, People, Engineering, InfoSec and Product on day-to-day legal questions, translating complex issues into practical, commercially-minded guidance
- Supporting data protection, AI and IP matters, including UK GDPR compliance, and safeguarding Cutover's proprietary technology
- Maintaining and improving contract templates, playbooks and legal processes to help the team work efficiently and at scale
- Managing legal risk across the contract lifecycle and knowing when to escalate, working closely with the wider team and external advisers where needed
- Supervising and developing our Junior Legal Counsel, sharing knowledge and helping them grow
- Taking ownership of our group insurance policies and helping support our Junior Legal Counsel to drive Cutover’s ESG programme
Our take
Cutover has established itself as a global leader in the emerging field of work orchestration and observability, providing critical solutions across industries like telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, insurance, and energy. Its platform is trusted by organizations in these sectors to streamline complex workflows and improve visibility into their operations.
It enhances machine automation while ensuring the smooth operation of customer-facing activities. Its platform enables comprehensive planning, management, and analysis of complex work processes while facilitating virtual team collaboration - a growing and increasingly vital area for businesses.
Cutover offers to solve some of the most important challenges for enterprises such as migrating to a hybrid cloud model, wider digital transformation, automating and evolving operational resilience practices and managing ongoing tech change without failures.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
14 people
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Mar 2021
$35m
SERIES B
Nov 2019
$17m
SERIES A
Total funding: $54.6m
Company benefits
- Growth and development: We are committed to learning and development, and you will never be short of opportunities to enhance your knowledge and skills
- Work balance: We understand that work-life balance is more than just a nice-to-have. That’s why we are open to flexible working hours and remote working arrangements
- A dynamic, global team: At Cutover, you’ll be part of a supportive, friendly team of passionate, experienced people. The best teams do more than just work together, so you’ll have the opportunity to take part in exciting team activities and social events
- World-leading companies: Cutover’s customers include some of the world’s largest and most well-known organizations. Helping to deliver their requirements will hone your game and build your career credentials
- Excellent benefits: We offer a package of employee benefits to reward and look after our people. Helping you to stay happy and healthy is a key priority for us. We also want our team to feel a genuine sense of ownership in the work they do, so we offer share options as part of our full-time permanent compensation packages
Company values
- Lead with empathy & assume positive intent: Listen; Encourage; Be trustworthy
- Stay curious & enable others to succeed: Build Knowledge; Strive for Self Improvement; Enable others
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Ky Nichol
(Co-Founder & CEO)They have an MBA from London Business School and worked at Pcubed for over 15 years prior to becoming Cutover's CEO.
Marcus Wildsmith
(Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer)Their background lies in Mechanical Engineering and along with Ky, worked at Pcubed for over 15 years prior to founding Cutover.
People progressing
Joined as Business Development Manager in Feb 2021. Seven months later they were promoted to Head of BDR and as of January 2023, they hold the role of Account Executive.
Joined as a Senior Engineer in mid-2021. Less than a year later they were promoted to Staff Engineer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cutover
- We're keenly focused on building a well-resourced DEI approach.
- We promote diversity and inclusion throughout our entire hiring process from job descriptions through to our interview panels. Though diversity comes in many forms, so far we have concentrated on improving our interview processes and encouraging applications from as diverse an array of backgrounds as possible. For our technical roles this year, 38% of our new hires have been female, 14% of new hires were of black or African-American heritage and 14% of new hires were of Asian heritage.
- We are engaging with several different organizations to take on apprentices from a variety of backgrounds. Through this initiative, we will be taking on junior employees who have come through non-traditional routes into tech and we are excited to be mentoring and supporting them throughout their growth at Cutover.
- We still have work to do but we are always looking to improve and celebrate our continued successes in this field.
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