The Role
Provide end-to-end commercial legal support for an assigned customer segment: draft, redline, negotiate and close contracts, handle DDQs, advise Revenue/Customer/Retention on legal and compliance, support Product on GDPR compliance, and assist with ad hoc HR, employment, corporate and company secretarial matters.
Summary Generated by Built In
As Legal Counsel at Zinc, you’ll take ownership of commercial legal work across a full customer segment, redlines, negotiations and due diligence questionnaires across the whole commercial spectrum, while making sure our Revenue and Customer/Retention teams are properly supported with legal, regulatory and compliance guidance day to day. You’ll work closely with Product to help keep everything we ship GDPR compliant, and you’ll pick up ad hoc legal work across HR, employment, corporate and company secretarial matters as it comes up. This is a hands-on, individual contributor role, you won’t manage anyone, but you’ll carry real ownership of your own portfolio from day one.
Key Responsibilities 🗝️
- Own commercial contracts end-to-end for an assigned customer segment
- Redlining, negotiating and closing across a customer segment everything from complex commercial negotiations and sales strategy to due diligence questionnaires (DDQs), across the full commercial spectrum for that segment.
- Carry direct accountability for revenue-generating legal work: contracts and compliance sit together under this role rather than being split across the team, so you own both the paper and the risk calls that go with it.
- Act as the legal point of contact for Revenue, Customer and Retention: fielding legal, regulatory and compliance questions directly so deals, renewals and account queries aren’t stuck waiting on Legal.
- GDPR and Product Compliance: Zinc is a massive data processor for its customers and must ensure our Product is able to comply with GDPR, you'll be part of the team that is first line of response for this.
- Pick up ad hoc legal work as it comes up: HR and employment matters, corporate work, and company secretarial (Co SEC) support. Scope here will flex with business need rather than being a fixed weekly commitment.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise 🚀
- NQ - 1yr PQE equivalent, either in-house of private practice.
- Solid grounding in commercial contracts, redlining and negotiation experience is what we’re looking for; commercial disputes experience is a reasonable substitute but less directly relevant.
- Good academic background and a solid training firm.
- Comfortable owning a portfolio independently without management responsibility
Desirable:
- Exposure to GDPR/data privacy work.
- Experience in a regulated industry.
- Prior HR/employment or company secretarial exposure
What we offer 🍉
- 24 days holiday + Bank Holidays + your birthday off 🎉
- £1200 annual benefits allowance (ThanksBen, from month 2)
- Early finish Fridays (16:00)
- Yearly company retreat abroad ✈️
- 30 days to Work from anywhere 🌍
- Enhanced Maternity, Paternity, and Adoption Leave (13 weeks full pay, 17 weeks half pay, then SMP for maternity, 1 month full pay for paternity/adoption) 🐣
- Statutory pension with NEST (3% employer, 5% employee)
- Zinc shares, issued through the EMI Scheme
- Unlimited access to Spill Therapy
- Company socials, quarterly team socials Free Monday lunches
- Nursery workplace benefit scheme (Yellownest)
- Option to lease an electric car through Electric Car Scheme
- Celebrated Zinc anniversaries 🥳
About
Who we are ⚡Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards. Founded in 2017 by a team with extensive HRTech experience, Zinc is an early-stage startup rapidly growing as it redefines efficiency, transparency, and fairness in background checks.📚Read more about our story here: https://zincwork.com/missionWe're a culture first company, by this we don't just mean an active calendar of both company and team organised events 🍔🍻🎯 (which we do have 🤩),Zinc's culture is defined by a respectful and autonomous approach to all employees, fostering support for new ideas, promoting a flexible work environment, and operating within a flat structure. While socials, lunches, and events enhance the experience, the core of Zinc's culture drives employees to embrace innovation, share successes, and feel motivated about the company's future.🪴We recently redefined our company values:🧩The pieces that make Zinc: Pragmatic, Integrity, Empathy, Collaborate, Empowered, Speed.
Skills Required
- Qualified lawyer with approximately 2+ years' post-qualification experience (PQE)
- Trained at a well-regarded/solid training law firm
- Solid grounding in commercial contracts, redlining and negotiation experience
- Good academic background
- Comfortable owning a legal portfolio independently as a hands-on individual contributor
- Commercial disputes experience (reasonable substitute for commercial contracts experience)
- Exposure to GDPR/data privacy work
- Experience in a regulated industry
- Prior HR/employment or company secretarial (Co SEC) exposure
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The Company
What We Do
Zinc builds automated reference and background checking tools designed to improve candidate experience and set new industry standards, offering automated pre-screening employment software for HR and recruiting teams to verify candidates' backgrounds and hire at scale.
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