Hybrid - Minimum 2 days on-site in London, Tower Bridge HQ
10 months FTC plus option for an additional 2 months
We are looking for a confident and experienced commercial / technology lawyer to join our Legal Regulatory and Compliance team on a fixed term maternity cover contract to advise on a varied and interesting mix of commercial contracts, technology, intellectual property and data protection across all group businesses.
This is a fantastic opportunity if you’re looking to join an innovative, fast-paced and supportive legal team which sits at the heart of the business.
Key responsibilities
Drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, including:
- Data licences with mortgage lenders
- Services agreements with customers and suppliers
- Product development agreements
- Outsourcing agreements
- Providing general legal advice and support to our various business divisions on day-to-day commercial and legal issues including company secretarial duties
- Proactively working on ways to improve efficiencies for the legal and compliance team including developing standard documents and playbooks
- Liaising with our investor representatives
- Supporting the General Counsel in instructing and managing external legal counsel
- Managing workloads and priorities within the legal team, and supervising junior members of the team
Essential skills
- Results driven; having a proactive, goal-orientated and commercial approach to decision making
- Experience obtained in a top-tier firm or in-house team
- Qualified to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales
- Proven technical ability to draft complex commercial agreements to tight time-scales
- Data protection experience a plus but not essential
- Company secretarial experience a plus but not essential
- Excellent communication skills - able to deliver legal advice in a clear, concise and appropriate style
- Ability to work autonomously with all levels of the business
- Meticulous attention to detail, combined with a commercial awareness and common sense
- Ability to grasp new legal concepts quickly
- Excellent time management and prioritisation skills
- Ability to adapt to change and to work in a fast-paced commercial environment
- Proven ability to supervise legal trainees and junior lawyers
- Everyday Flex - greater flexibility over where and when you work
- 25 days annual leave + extra days for years of service
- Day off for volunteering & Digital detox day
- Festive Closure - business closed for a period between Christmas and New Year
- Cycle to work and electric car schemes
- Free Calm App membership
- Enhanced Parental leave
- Fertility Treatment Financial Support
- Group Income Protection and private medical insurance
- Gym on-site in London
- 7.5% pension contribution by the company
- Discretionary annual bonus up to 10% of base salary
- Talent referral bonus up to £5K
What We Do
We’ve recently renamed our wider business to ‘Houseful’, which is why the name might be new to you. By doing so, we can now showcase the breadth of our brands and connected capabilities that are driving progress in the property industry.
Houseful is the leader in residential property software, data and insight - owning and operating a family of trusted and established brands, including Zoopla, Hometrack, Prime Location, Mojo, Alto and Calcasa.
It also means that when you work for one of our brands, you’re part of something much bigger. At Houseful, we are powering better property decisions for everyone - and our door is always open to new applicants, regardless of race, colour, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, age, physical disability, or length of time spent unemployed.
