Head of Legal, Accurx
£120-150k
+ Share options up to £50,000
3-5 days a week in office
Patient communication for healthcare professionals
Posted today
Patient communication for healthcare professionals
201-500 employees
Posted today
£120-150k
+ Share options up to £50,000
3-5 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make patients healthier and healthcare staff happier.
Role
Who you are
- You're a qualified legal expert: You are a Qualified Solicitor in England & Wales (or equivalent with QLTS) with a minimum of 8+ years PQE
- In-house scale-up experience: You have a proven track record working in-house within a high-growth SaaS or tech environment, specifically navigating growth stages from Series B and beyond
- Commercial & board-level judgment: You possess exceptional judgment and commercial pragmatism, with experience partnering directly with investors, senior leadership, and Boards to deliver confident, high-stakes strategic advice
- AI & Data Privacy grounding: You bring a working knowledge of - and a genuine passion for - emerging AI regulatory frameworks (like the EU AI Act, ICO guidance, and MHRA medical device frameworks) and data protection
- Corporate & equity housekeeping: You have hands-on experience handling company secretarial duties, board processes, statutory compliance, and managing employee share schemes
- Autonomous & mission-driven: You thrive with high levels of autonomy, love solving complex problems without close supervision, and are genuinely driven by our mission to fix communication in healthcare
- NHS familiarity: Ideally, you have exposure to public sector frameworks or NHS procurement processes, understanding what it takes to sell software to regulated customers
What the job involves
- As our Head of Legal, you will be the ultimate owner of Accurx's legal risk profile, setting a world-class standard for governance, compliance, and legal quality across a fast-scaling business
- Reporting directly to our Chief People Officer, you will build and lead the vital legal frameworks that allow us to innovate in a high-stakes healthcare environment while maintaining absolute trust with the NHS
- You'll act as a strategic, deeply commercial partner to executive leaders and a cross-functional team, navigating cutting-edge data privacy and clinical AI frontiers to protect our downside while maximizing our upside
- Legal Strategy & Operations: Managing all core legal domains—including commercial contracts, IP, partnership agreements, and employment law—ensuring our internal legal operations are simple, tech-enabled, and user-friendly
- AI Governance & Enablement: Building the legal foundations to operate as an AI-native business, keeping us ahead of an evolving regulatory landscape (UK AI Regulation, EU AI Act, MHRA, ICO) to translate rules into pragmatic product development frameworks
- Scalable GRC Frameworks: Designing and implementing a robust Governance, Risk, and Compliance framework that accurately identifies risks, prioritising mitigations to support rapid commercial growth
- Privacy-by-Design Championing: Partnering closely with Product, Technology, and Clinical leaders to actively problem-solve and embed privacy and responsible AI practices into the very fabric of how we build software
- People Leadership: Developing, mentoring, and uniting a high-performing team of three direct reports (spanning Service Management, Data Protection and Legal Operations) to consistently raise the bar
- Cross-Functional Advisory: Serving as a trusted advisor to the Board, CEO, and Executive team, providing proactive, data-driven insights on corporate governance, board updates, and investment preparedness
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Communication between patients and nurses/doctors has typically happened via telephone call or post. This outdated technology is costly and doesn't exactly provide a great experience. Accurx has stepped in to solve this problem with its communication and collaboration platform.
Accurx allows GPs and other healthcare providers to communicate more efficiently with their patients and with each other in order to deliver top-quality care. Its products are now used in over 95% of GP practices, a huge testament to the value of Accurx's platform.
Since raising considerable funding, Accurx has been focused on growing its team and developing its products, including batch messaging between clinics and patients, to help care sites ease the burden of long wait lists and understaffing. Alongside this, the platform recently partnered up with Tandem Health to launch an AI scribe tool for use across the NHS, so GP practices can save valuable time. Together, these developments put Accurx ins a strong position for even more growth and impact across the healthcare sector.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
56% female employees
30% employee growth in 12 months
Glassdoor (3.6)
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2021
$37.2m
SERIES B
Mar 2019
$11.9m
SERIES A
Total funding: $49.1m
Company benefits
- Breakfast & lunch in the office
- Flexible working
- Access to Happl, a flexible benefits provider
- Meaningful share options
- Allocated L&D budget
- Advance Parental Leave policy
- Monthly team socials
Company values
- Fix healthcare communication
- Raise the bar
- Be a driver, not a passenger
- Succeed together
- Move with urgency
- Be relentlessly resourceful
- Embrace challenge
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Jacob Haddad
(Co-Founder)Began their career in Healthcare Consulting with Newton Europe and Outcomes Based Healthcare.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Accurx
- Each health system is made up of a diverse workforce, serving 100% of the population. We are building for them, not us. We can only transform health systems if we build a diverse team, rich with different backgrounds, opinions and personalities.
- We particularly welcome applications from those who are significantly underrepresented in the technology sector, such as women, trans people, non-binary people, people with disabilities and people from black and underrepresented ethnic communities.
- You can find more information about Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Accurx on our Candidate Hub - https://accurx.notion.site/Diversity-Equity-Inclusion-Belonging-DEIB-24cc8751696f4434b4af64efd9de1b1a
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