Ledgy - Head of Legal

• Team leadership • Team leadership • Act as a strategic legal advisor to the executive team and board on key business decisions. • Lead, manage and continue to develop our existing legal team, building further capability and capacity in line with the company's continued growth. • Direct and manage relationships with external counsel and fractional advisers. • Corporate and governance • Lead on corporate governance matters across the group's entities. • Act as company secretary (or oversee this function), ensuring the business meets its ongoing corporate compliance obligations in relevant jurisdictions, including Switzerland, the UK and Germany. • Support investor relations from a legal perspective, including shareholder communications, corporate actions and any future fundraising activity. • Maintain and continuously improve the group's corporate structure, including subsidiary governance and inter-company arrangements as the business expands. • Commercial contracting • Lead negotiation of high-value, bespoke commercial agreements with customers, partners and vendors, including enterprise SaaS contracts, MSAs, DPAs and strategic partnership agreements. • Continue to refine the existing suite of template agreements and playbooks to enable faster, lower-risk deal cycles as the business scales. • Provide pragmatic, commercially-minded legal input that balances risk mitigation with deal velocity. • Legal operations and AI governance • Working hand-in-hand with our AI and RevOps teams, build on existing legal operations, including contract lifecycle management, legal tech tooling, workflows, knowledge management and budgeting, identifying opportunities for further improvement. • Develop and maintain the company's approach to AI governance, including policies and frameworks for the use of AI tools internally and AI-related features within the product, working closely with product and engineering teams. • Drive efficiency and self-service across the business through clear processes, training and accessible legal resources. • Risk management and compliance • Identify, assess and manage legal and regulatory risk across the business, horizon scanning for upcoming changes in law and regulation across the UK, EU and further afield. • Own and maintain the company's compliance frameworks, policies and corporate governance documentation. • Strong working knowledge of data privacy law (UK/EU GDPR, Swiss FADP), with the judgement to apply this confidently in collaboration with the information security and data teams. • Cross-functional partnership • Build strong working relationships with key stakeholders across finance, sales, marketing, product and information security, embedding legal input proactively in business processes. • Support the sales team on deal structuring, contract negotiation and escalations to help close revenue efficiently. • Partner with finance on corporate matters and governance requirements arising from the company's investor relationships. • International expansion • Lead on the legal aspects of continued international expansion, including new entity set-up, employment and regulatory considerations, and local law advice coordination across new jurisdictions. • Manage relationships with external counsel across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring cost-effective and high-quality legal support. • 8+ years PQE, with significant experience gained in-house in a fast-paced, dynamic scale-up environment. • Proven experience leading and developing a small legal team in a resourceful way. • Strong commercial experience in a SaaS business, including negotiating high-value, bespoke contracts with customers, partners and vendors. • Demonstrable legal operations experience, with an understanding of how to approach AI governance for both internal tooling and product development. • A track record of building effective partnerships with stakeholders across finance, sales, marketing, product and infosec. • Strong risk management skills, with the ability to horizon scan and anticipate emerging legal and regulatory issues. • Experience supporting international/global expansion, ideally across UK, European and US jurisdictions. • Excellent judgement, with a pragmatic, solutions-oriented and commercially astute approach to legal advice. • Strong and effective communication and influencing skills, comfortable operating at board level.