Hybrid position: working 3 days a week from our London office (Monday, Wednesday & Thursday)
80% of the global workforce is a frontline worker; yet their work experience - how they work, how they connect with systems, with others, etc - is fundamentally disjointed and difficult compared to desk-based workers.
Blink has built an unparalleled employee super-app to achieve our mission of closing this digital divide and enable distributed organisations to reconnect their frontline workforce, communicate effectively with all their employees and engage with all of them like never before. Blink’s super-app allows frontline workers to access everything they need and everyone they want in the palm of their hand. Our cutting-edge platform serves thousands of users across the globe, empowering enterprises to engage, motivate, and retain their most valuable assets—their people.
Blink has been named in Sifted’s Top 100 fastest growing companies, G2’s report for best employee engagement software and recognised by Gartner as a leading software provider in their annual market guide for Employee Communications Application.
Requirements
We’re looking for an experienced legal professional, reporting directly to our Chief Operating Officer to join Blink and shape our contracting strategy, support our global sales team, and drive legal initiatives across Blink. You’ll negotiate key agreements, streamline processes, and ensure we stay ahead on compliance and governance—all while playing a crucial role in our business growth. If you’re excited to lead, innovate, and work cross-functionally, this is the opportunity for you!
What you'll be doing:
Commercial Contracts and Customer Relationships:
- Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of commercial contracts, including customer contracts (on our standard terms and on client paper), vendor agreements, NDAs, and partnership agreements, working in particular with our global sales team.
- Update our suite of terms and policies for new features, AI and legal developments.
- Provide guidance on contract terms and potential liabilities to mitigate legal risks to the sales and customer success teams.
- Implement contract management processes and systems to streamline Blink’s legal function and contracting processes.
- Work cross-functionally to respond to RFPs, advising on legal governance, contract terms and data protection.
Legal Strategy, Risk and Advice:
- Provide legal advice to all areas of the business across practice areas.
- Advance and implement legal strategies to support business objectives, growth initiatives, and risk management and work cross functionally on achieving them.
- Identify potential legal risks to the organization and develop strategies to minimize exposure.
- Work with and manage relationships with outside counsel where necessary.
Corporate Governance and Compliance:
- Keep Blink on top of applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards.
- Advise on corporate governance, board responsibilities, and shareholder matters.
- Manage the employee share option plan, including grants, exercises and plan evolution.
- Prepare corporate documents, filings, and statutory records to maintain compliance.
Training and Development:
- Provide legal training to internal stakeholders, particularly on compliance matters, data protection and sales contracts.
- Promote legal awareness across the organization to foster a culture of compliance appropriate to our business stage and growth.
What we're looking for:
- Qualified lawyer with at least 3 years PQE (we are open to discussions on PQE for the right candidate).
- General all-rounder with particular experience with technology contracts (particularly SaaS), other commercial technology issues and data protection.
- Experience in-house in a start-up/scale-up or with start-up/scale is essential.
- Comfortable working independently as sole counsel on an array of matters, from legal BAU to strategic initiatives.
- Strong negotiation skills and the ability to handle competing priorities, deadlines and stakeholders.
Benefits
You will have the opportunity to be part of something impactful, large-scale, and meaningful. Most importantly, you’ll work for a company with a strong purpose, with an ambitious and supportive team embarking on a journey most start-ups can only dream of!
Benefits include:
- Competitive salary and equity allocations with significant upside potential
- Private health insurance
- A quirky, spacious, natural light-filled office in London
- Learning & development focus, plus mentorship options. We’ll do everything we can to get you to the top of your game
- The ability for you to grow, learn, and solve a variety of challenges, working in a supportive environment with smart people
- Private healthcare, Ride2Work, pension scheme, weekly yoga sessions
At Blink, we're committed to creating an inclusive and diverse culture where our people feel they truly belong. We value and respect individual differences, so all applications will receive fair and equal consideration without regard to ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability or age.
