Legal Counsel

About this role

View our much better version of this job spec on our careers page: https://juro.notion.site/legal-counsel

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THE KEY BITS

- Location: We can currently only accept applications from candidates that are located and have long-term working rights in the UK.

- Flexibility: We operate a choice-first work approach https://juro.notion.site/choice-first-work that lets you work fully remotely from Day One even if you’re near an office hub.

- Salary: We benchmarked ca. £80,000 + equity at MN2 in our progression framework https://juro.notion.site/progression for someone based in the UK. This equates to roughly 2-4 years’ PQE. If you like the look of the role but the salary doesn’t match what you’re looking for, let us know in the application.

- Interviews: 3 stages totalling around 3 hours over 2-3 weeks.

- Start date: As soon as you can start.

- Reporting to: Michael Haynes, General Counsel

- More info: The FAQ below, juro.com/careers http://juro.com/careers, our handbook https://juro.notion.site/handbook or ask [email protected] anything.

HELP US HELP THE WORLD AGREE FASTER

Juro has big ambitions: to become the go-to platform for agreeing and managing contracts globally. And we'll need help doing it.

Legal tech is on the rise, with Goldman Sachs estimating that 44% of legal tasks can be automated https://www.law.com/legaltechnews/2023/03/30/legal-industry-reacts-to-goldman-sachs-generative-ai-report-keep-calm-and-panic/?slreturn=20231019075707 with generative AI. With the brand we have built and the agility of early stage we are well placed to capture this opportunity.

Most legal teams scale by hiring more lawyers. Juro’s doesn’t.

We run Legal as an operating system: routine work is eliminated, automated or self-served, most deals close without a lawyer touching them, human time is reserved for critical judgement calls.

You can read more about this approach in our Legal strategy 2026-27 https://app.notion.com/p/Legal-strategy-2026-27-2cd82de44b5380a791cfcdc98e33ca2e?pvs=21.

The model works. But it’s created a new problem: the judgement calls that do get through are getting bigger and harder as we scale. Record deal volumes, larger deals, enterprise counterparties with big legal departments of their own… right now, every judgement call lands on Michael https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhaynes/, our General Counsel.

That's where you come in.

Your mission is to give Juro the confidence to scale fast. That means:

- You own the system (not the queue) for commercial contracts.

- You’ll negotiate the deals that genuinely need a lawyer, directly with the other side, with agency to make decisions that you are accountable for.

- You’ll make sure fewer deals need a lawyer: refining templates and playbooks, supervising AI review, fixing systems whenever the same question reaches you twice.

Within 6 months, success means:

- Deals that need a lawyer get you (not the GC) and close faster for it.

- 90%+ of deals close with no lawyer involved at all because you have made the system better.

- You work AI-first. Juro runs the most AI-leveraged legal function you’ll find; we expect you to push it further.

Customer deals are the tip of the spear but not the whole job. The same model covers everything else a scaling AI business sends Legal’s way: vendor contracts, data protection work, compliance, marketing claims, the occasional dispute.

You’ll own the systems for all of it — playbooks, thresholds, AI triage — handle the exceptions yourself and escalate to the GC only where the risk warrants it. You’ll also get exposure to the company-level work Michael leads: corporate, governance, employment, strategic projects.

We care about building a diverse team where everyone feels they belong. That’s why our perks & benefits https://juro.notion.site/benefits and choice-first work https://juro.notion.site/choice-first-work approach are designed with inclusivity in mind. Read more in our diversity, inclusion & belonging hub https://juro.notion.site/dei.

WHO WE LOOK FOR

Research shows that while men apply to jobs if they meet ~60% of criteria, women and those in traditionally under-represented groups tend to apply only if they check all boxes. So if you think you have what it takes but don't meet every single point above, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit.

To succeed here:

Every Juror finds their balance across our four core Principles https://app.notion.com/p/Principles-acf77a5d174f427eb46aa3134a206296?pvs=21 — we hire, develop and celebrate people who live them every day.

Curious how you’d fit? Try our personality quiz https://my-juro-personality.lovable.app/ to see how you map against our principles.

On top of that, you have been part of a journey where:

- You are a solicitor, qualified in England & Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, with a current practising certificate.

- You have ~2-4 years’ post-qualification experience (you qualified March 2024 or earlier).

- You trained somewhere that held you to high standards (likely a City firm, strong regional firm or tech sector specialist firm) and spent most of your time on commercial, tech, IP, data protection or AI work.

- You worked in or alongside in-house teams at tech companies (client secondments count) for at least a year. From that, we infer that you’re comfortable with ambiguity, limited supervision and speed.

- You negotiated commercial contracts in tech directly with the other side, end to end, without someone reviewing your work before it goes out.

- You built (not just advised) things other people use such as playbooks, templates, automation and training. You’d rather fix the cause of the question than answer it three times.

This job likely isn’t for you if:

- You measure your value by the number of contracts you’ve reviewed. Here, a contract reaching you that didn’t need to is a failure, not a win.

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