Senior Legal Counsel, Kaluza
£100-117k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
1+ day a week in office
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
Posted today
Intelligent software platform powering the future of energy
201-500 employees
Posted today
£100-117k
+ Discretionary Bonus Scheme
1+ day a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To accelerate a sustainable, affordable, and resilient energy transition.
Role
Who you are
- You’ll be a commercially minded legal expert who thrives in fast-paced, collaborative environments and relishes the opportunity to help shape a legal function from the ground up. You operate with integrity, influence, and clarity - even when navigating ambiguity
- Qualification as a solicitor in the UK (or a comparable common law jurisdiction), with 4+ years PQE
- Experience in high-growth tech or energy-related companies, with ideally a a mix of in-house and private practice (particularly in commercial or technology law) experience
- Confidence managing high-value, complex contracts with international clients and partners
- A track record of advising on cross-border matters and helping businesses scale across jurisdictions
- Experience working with Risk & Compliance to develop integrated legal-risk frameworks
Desirable
- Strong business acumen and the ability to balance legal risk with commercial outcomes
- A results-oriented approach to solving problems - a “do-er”
- Experience building or evolving a legal function, including process design and legal ops
- A collaborative and pragmatic communication style - able to influence without overcomplicating
- Resilience, curiosity, and comfort navigating change
What the job involves
- Reporting To: Head of Legal
- As Senior Legal Counsel, you’ll play a pivotal role in scaling our legal function as we expand internationally. Reporting to the Head of Legal, you’ll act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across Kaluza, navigating complex legal and regulatory challenges while enabling bold, strategic growth
- You’ll partner cross-functionally with teams across Product, Finance, Operations, People, and Risk & Compliance—providing pragmatic, solutions-oriented legal support across multiple jurisdictions, including the UK, US, Portugal, Australia, and Japan
- Commercial & Corporate Legal Work
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements, including SaaS, technology licensing, customer, supplier, and strategic partnership contracts
- Supporting product launches and new market entries with robust, commercial legal advice
- Ensuring compliance with corporate governance and regulatory obligations, especially in high-growth tech environments
- Strategic Legal & Business Enablement
- Advising on international expansion, helping to shape legal strategy across EMEA, APAC, and North America
- Building scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, and policies to future-proof the function
- Collaborating with stakeholders at all levels—up to C-suite—providing clear, strategic guidance
- Specialist Areas
- IP & Data: Advising on intellectual property and supporting the Risk & Compliance team on data protection and privacy matters
- Legal Ops & Enablement: Leading legal training and enablement initiatives across the business
- Governance & Projects: Supporting corporate governance, company secretarial responsibilities, and strategic legal projects
Application process
- Closing date for applications: Monday 16th June 2025
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The energy landscape is one of the most dynamic and fast-evolving sectors in the world. More and more energy retailers are looking to move further toward digitisation and reap the benefits of modern technology in an increasingly connected world. But many are struggling with the transition, held back by legacy operating systems which slow them down, drain resources, and hamper innovation.
This is where Kaluza comes in. An ecosystem of platforms whose services range from energy billing to smart electric vehicle charging, Its real-time cloud platforms transform supplier operations, reducing the cost to serve and boosting customer engagement. Essentially, its platform is aimed at helping businesses streamline their operations, saving them time, effort, and money which can be better invested elsewhere.
Kaluza is riding the momentum of a growing desire for sustainable business and services. Its program relating to electric car charging, for example, will be able to capitalise on huge new demand in that sector - over 100,000 electric cars are already on the roads in the UK, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance has predicted that electric cars will account for over 50% of new global car sales by 2040. As the globe moves further towards sustainable use of energy in the coming years, Kaluza could be very well positioned to capitalise.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
33% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- On top of a great pension scheme, you can spend an extra flex pot across a range of benefits that are most important to you - from charity donations, to tech loans, to taking it as cash - there's a wide range of options! There's also our annual discretionary bonus scheme
- Private Medical Insurance and Life Assurance
- 26 days holiday, including a day off for your birthday you can take at any point
- Flexible bank holidays, giving you an additional 8 days which you can choose to take whenever you like
- Progressive leave policies with no qualifying service periods, including 26 weeks full pay if you have a new addition to your family
- A dedicated personal learning budget
- Flexible working — we trust you to work in a way that suits your lifestyle
- And more..
Company values
- We're on a mission
- We build together
- We're inclusive
- We get it done
- We communicate with purpose
Company HQ
Kensington, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Melissa Gander
(CEO)Initially joined Kaluza as COO before becoming CEO in 2024. Previously worked at Ovo Energy in a number of roles, including Managing Director of Smart Metering and Group COO. Prior to that, they worked at INEXUS as a Process and Performance Analyst and a Customer Manager.
People progressing
Joined as Senior Technical Product Manager in 2017, promoted after 2 years, 3 months to Head of Product, promoted again in 2024 to their current position as Director of Product.
Joined Kaluza in 2020 as a Software Engineer, and in less than 2 years was promoted to Software Engineering Manager and again promoted in 2023 to Senior Software Engineer.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Kaluza
- We are developing an dedicated Early Talent programme with a focus on underrepresented groups, offering different training opportunities within the business
- Our applicant tracking system, Greenhouse, also anonymously tracks the diversity of each candidate pipeline, so we can proactively take action when a pipeline needs to be more diverse
- We invest in tools, like Textio, and focused diversity job boards to help us reduce bias in our job postings and recruitment activity
- Commitment in improving diversity across our Tech Teams and working with companies to improve the tech ecosystem as a whole, specifically have committed to 25% Women in Tech by 2025
- We've signed up to numerous charters, like the Tech Talent Charter, Race at Work Charter and Trans in the City, to show our continuing commitment to improving I&D within Kaluza and the wider community
- Within Kaluza we have belonging communities set up, to offer support and forums for everybody
- We run monthly Inclusive Hiring Skills & Bias training that are open to all Kaluza employees
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