Senior Legal Counsel

Salary Competitive

Join the planet’s most important fight
Normative is now looking for Senior Legal Counsel for our team in London

Normative helps companies to understand and reduce their carbon footprints towards their journey to Net Zero. We do this through science-based carbon accounting products and tailored advice from net zero experts. What we do has a real positive impact on the climate - you can too!

We are now seeking a passionate and experienced hands-on Senior Legal Counsel to join our dynamic legal team based in London! This is an important role with the scope to make a real impact as we grow, so if you’re looking for your next exciting career opportunity, love a challenge, and enjoy making the complex simple, we’d love to hear from you!

As Senior Legal Counsel, you will possess a deep understanding of legal principles, have a proven track record of success in managing and executing legal projects, and the ability to coach and lead high-performing individuals.

What you will do:

In this role you will play a pivotal part in ensuring the Normative’s compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, providing strategic guidance to the business, and developing and implementing best practices across the organisation.

In addition, you will:

  • Have some experience working within a SaaS organisation or other tech scale-up environments

  • Provide comprehensive legal advice and support to the business across all areas of legal operation.

  • Work closely and collaborate with existing members of the team as an individual and as part of the team, ensuring effective workflow & productivity

  • Look to identify and implement new, innovative and automated ways of working, utilising technology to scale and drive greater operational efficiencies & standardizations as appropriate

  • Draft and review complex legal agreements, contracts, and other legal documents.

  • Conduct legal research and analysis to support the business's strategic decision-making.

  • Stay up-to-date on emerging legal trends and developments within the industry.

  • Identify and assess legal risks, develop mitigation strategies, and implement effective risk management practices.

  • Represent Normative in legal proceedings and negotiations, as needed.

  • Collaborate with other departments to ensure compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements.


Experience we’re seeking:

  • Are UK qualified 4+ years PQE with in-house experience

  • Can confidently think strategically, but also execute on a granular level as needed

  • Are comfortable working both independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced, global organisation with the ability to prioritise tasks and manage time effectively

  • Possess excellent understanding of English legal principles and regulations & have excellent command of both spoken and written English

We also believe you:

  • Possess excellent communication & interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships & effectively present legal information to various stakeholders in a simple way.

  • Demonstrate strong leadership and mentoring skills, with the ability to motivate and inspire legal professionals

  • Have experience working with corporate law and corporate affairs will be a bonus but not essential

Location

Normative has offices in Stockholm, London and Copenhagen. For this role you will be located in our office in London working on a hybrid policy.

At this time we are not able to offer relocation or VISA support for this position.

Benefits

    • Market-based salaries and annual merit-based salary reviews

    • 30 days/year of paid vacation + up to 2 additional days off

    • Pension Offering

    • Parental leave top-up

    • Group Life Insurance

    • Workers Compensation and Health Insurance through our provider Vitality

    • Social and team-building activities (off-sites, after works, winter/summer parties)

    • An opportunity to make a real positive impact on the world

    • A friendly, supportive and humble working culture


We review our benefits packages on a regular basis and might modify our benefits from time to time

How to Apply

We adopt a continuous selection process, so please make sure to apply with your CV in English.

Our interview process consists of 4 stages:

1. Screening interview with a member of our Talent Acquisition team
2. First interview with the hiring manager
Online Personality & Logic assessment
3. Practical Case Interview with CEO, VP of Operations and People and hiring manager 

We’re committed to hiring diversely. Having employees from diverse backgrounds brings a wealth of perspectives and experience to our team. We assess candidates based on their experience, skills and unique talents and evaluate everyone against the same criteria.

Normative handles sensitive financial data and we will therefore conduct a background check before hiring any candidate.

Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

Flexible working hours
Flexible working hours

Free coffee / tea
Free coffee / tea

Near public transit
Near public transit

Social gatherings
Social gatherings

Free office snacks
Free office snacks

Paid holiday
Paid holiday

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Working at
Normative

Our Mission: Normative is here to make known and reduce the sustainability impact of all economic activities on the planet. We provide science-based carbon accounting software and tailored advice from net zero experts, enabling companies to reduce their carbon footprints. Our Story: Normative is rooted in climate research. In 2013, co-founder Kristian Rönn was working at Oxford University, simulating the consequences of climate change. The results showed that global warming would cause extreme human suffering, motivating Kristian to leave academia and take action. He joined forces with Adam Wamai Egesa and Robin Undall-Behrend, and in 2014 the world’s first carbon accounting engine was born to help humanity achieve net zero emissions and reverse the trajectory of climate change. We now have offices in Stockholm, Copenhagen, and London, and are actively hiring talent to join the mission. Today, companies from around the world trust our carbon accounting engine to help them reduce their carbon footprint. We partner with leading climate change organisations including the UN, to deliver actionable sustainability intelligence and have received a grant from Google. We are backed by some of the world’s most significant climate investors, and are the official software provider for the UN-backed SME Climate Hub initiative through which thousands of small businesses have committed to net zero. Our Team: We are a global team working to solve a global problem. We’re headquartered in Stockholm, with offices in Copenhagen and London as well as remote team members located all over the world. We have spoken at the World Economic Forum, consulted the European Commission, and worked with the United Nations to develop a new standard for emissions accounting. We come from many walks of life, but we’re united in one mission: to help humanity achieve net zero emissions. Every employee at Normative plays a valuable role in reducing business carbon emissions.

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