Lead Counsel, UK & Europe

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Financial Services
Ramp helps thousands of businesses control spend, save time, automate busywork—and save an average of 3.5%.
The Role
Provide day-to-day international legal support for Ramp's UK and EU fintech operations, advising on payments licensing, commercial agreements, data protection, product launches, corporate expansion, employment matters, and governance. Draft and negotiate contracts, build scalable legal processes and templates, coordinate external counsel, and partner with cross-functional teams to enable compliant, rapid market expansion.
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About Ramp

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.

The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.

We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.

The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.

If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.

About the Role

This role will serve as Ramp's first international legal counsel in London, providing day-to-day support on product, regulatory, commercial, employment, corporate, and operational issues as Ramp builds out its European presence. They will partner closely with the U.S. Legal and Compliance teams to ensure consistency across jurisdictions while adapting Ramp's approach to local law and market practice. This is a hybrid role suited to someone comfortable moving between regulatory work and broad-based business/operational counsel in a fast-moving environment.

What You'll Do
  • Advise on legal and regulatory matters across Ramp’s UK and EU financial technology operations, including payment services licensing, commercial, and data protection matters.

  • Negotiate and draft commercial agreements supporting European operations, including bank-partner arrangements and customer-facing terms tailored to local law requirements.

  • Partner with Product, Compliance, Risk, Finance, and Marketing teams to structure and launch new products, payment flows, and international-market expansions.

  • Build practical, scalable legal processes, templates, training, and issue-escalation frameworks that enable the international organization to move quickly while managing legal and regulatory objectives.

  • Support corporate expansion activities, including entity formation and governance, local hiring and employment matters, and coordination with external counsel across relevant jurisdictions.

What You Need
  • Qualified attorney authorized to practice in the UK, with substantial in-house or law-firm experience supporting regulated financial-services businesses.

  • Strong working knowledge of UK and EU payments, e-money, financial-services, and technology requirements.

  • Demonstrated ability to advise cross-functionally on product, commercial, corporate, employment, and operational matters in a fast-moving, international environment.

  • Practical judgment and a business-oriented approach to translating complex legal and regulatory requirements into clear, scalable guidance.

  • Excellent drafting, negotiation, stakeholder-management, and project-management skills, with comfort coordinating external counsel across multiple jurisdictions.

Nice-to-Haves
  • Experience supporting a high-growth fintech across multiple European markets.

  • Additional European language skills and experience working with regulators or external counsel in multiple jurisdictions.

Benefits available to all full-time Ramp employees (Global)
  • Flexible PTO

  • Centralized home-office equipment ordering

  • Health and wellness stipend

  • Budget for intra-office travel

  • Weekly coffee stipend

United States
  • 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you, with partial coverage for dependents

  • One Medical annual membership

  • 401(k), including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp

  • Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)

  • Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay

  • Pet insurance

  • In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more

  • Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF (if needed)

Canada
  • Group medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sun Life

  • Life, AD&D, and disability coverage

  • Fertility drug coverage (up to $4,000 lifetime)

  • Group Retirement Plan with employer match (RRSP + DPSP)

  • Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay, with additional time available at reduced pay

  • Employee Assistance Program and virtual care through Lumino Health

United Kingdom
  • Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite

  • Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi

  • Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option

  • Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay with additional time available at reduced pay

Referral Instructions

If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.

 
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Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

 

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Skills Required

  • Qualified attorney authorized to practice in the UK
  • Substantial in-house or law-firm experience supporting regulated financial-services businesses
  • Strong working knowledge of UK and EU payments, e-money, financial-services, and technology requirements
  • Ability to advise cross-functionally on product, commercial, corporate, employment, and operational matters
  • Practical judgment and business-oriented approach to translating legal and regulatory requirements into scalable guidance
  • Excellent drafting, negotiation, stakeholder-management, and project-management skills; comfortable coordinating external counsel across multiple jurisdictions
  • Experience supporting a high-growth fintech across multiple European markets
  • Additional European language skills and experience working with regulators or external counsel in multiple jurisdictions

Ramp Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Ramp and has not been reviewed or approved by Ramp.

  • Fair & Transparent Compensation Fair & Transparent Compensation: Pay is positioned as competitive or top-of-market in core technical roles, with strong base pay and total compensation ranges cited for engineers and product roles. Compensation is also framed as including meaningful equity alongside salary, making offers feel compelling versus many startup benchmarks.
  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare Strength: Healthcare coverage is described as comprehensive, often including medical, dental, and vision, with additional primary-care access via a One Medical membership. The package is portrayed as above-average on employer coverage for employees, increasing perceived value of the benefits bundle.
  • Retirement Support Retirement Support: A 401(k) with an employer match is consistently included as a core benefit. Immediate or meaningful matching is presented as a concrete financial benefit that goes beyond a basic plan offering.

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The Company
HQ: New York, NY
450 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

Ramp is building the next generation of finance tools—from corporate cards and expense management, to bill payments and accounting integrations—designed to save businesses time and money with every click. More than 10,000 customers cut their expenses by 3.5% per year and closing their books 8x faster by switching to the Ramp platform. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment software in America and enables billions of dollars of purchases each year. Ramp continues to grow at an increasingly large scale, more than doubling its revenue run rate in the first half of 2022. Valued at $8.1 billion, Ramp's investors include Founders Fund, Stripe, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Coatue Management, D1 Capital Partners, Redpoint Ventures, General Catalyst, and Thrive Capital, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart. Ramp was named Fast Company’s most innovative finance company in 2022.

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