Senior Legal Counsel

<h2><strong>About Dwelly</strong></h2> <p>Dwelly — a UK-based, AI-enabled lettings and property management platform, that is growing through a roll-up strategy acquiring estate agencies. The company leverages two arms: i) acquiring existing letting agencies, effectively buying its highly sticky, recurring revenue-type landlords portfolios, and then ii) building a top-notch technology to automate tenant management, payments, and post-rental property maintenance. The company seamlessly integrates AI services to automate all business processes within brick-and-mortar real estate agencies, integrating them into a tech-enabled digital letting platform in two months to radically improve the user experiences and increase efficiency of the business.</p> <p>We’re a fast-growing, product-focused company, backed by top-tier investors and led by a team with deep experience in real estate, technology, and operations.</p> <h2><strong>Position summary&nbsp;</strong></h2> <p>We are looking for an experienced senior legal counsel, with an exceptional private practice grounding and in-house experience to help scale our legal team - you will be the second legal hire below the GC in an industry changing business. The role will suit a generalist able to help with all aspects of the business and provide support for any and all legal matters in a fast paced growth environment . A background in M&amp;A is helpful given Dwelly’s business model, alongside exposure to other legal matters which a scaling tech business is likely to face (fund raising, AI-product roll outs, litigation, employment, compliance, general commercial, etc..).</p> <h2><strong>Key responsibilities</strong></h2> <ul> <li>You will be responsible for running legal matters solo with minimal supervision. This could be running the board and investor directors through legal matters, fund raising, working closely with our product engineers, auditing data and AI regs or running an M&amp;A deal.</li> <li>You will be the second legal hire in the entire business with scope for significant progression for the right candidate. You will be capable of leading on any legal matter with sound common sense and commercial judgement.</li> <li>You will be required to think outside of the strict legal wheelhouse to help minimise risks as opposed to ‘gate keeper’ for what is legally possible.</li> <li>Will be responsible for working with and helping junior members of the legal team in time.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Qualifications and Preferred Background&nbsp;</strong></h2> <p><strong>Core Requirements:</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years PQE (minimum)</li> <li data-section-id="15ndphj" data-start="1313" data-end="1407">In-house experience, ideally including building or scaling a legal function from near zero</li> <li data-section-id="1u2yvcs" data-start="1408" data-end="1481">Background from a top-tier US firm or Magic Circle (UK/AUS qualified)</li> </ul> <p data-start="1509" data-end="1523"><strong data-start="1509" data-end="1523">Preferred:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Data protection law experience</li> <li data-section-id="gp0lfr" data-start="1559" data-end="1585">AI regulation exposure</li> <li data-section-id="rhx45n" data-start="1586" data-end="1614">Tech/start-up experience</li> <li data-section-id="rhx45n" data-start="1586" data-end="1614">M&amp;A experience</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to Have:</strong></p> <ul> <li data-section-id="sdgz98" data-start="1634" data-end="1677">Lettings law / estate agency experience</li> <li data-section-id="v3xxhq" data-start="1678" data-end="1709">UK employment law knowledge</li> <li data-section-id="1r08bya" data-start="1710" data-end="1746">Interest or experience in coding</li> <li data-section-id="1ysfdfs" data-start="1747" data-end="1809">Experience beyond pure legal (e.g. compliance, operations)</li> </ul> <h2><strong>Compensation and benefits</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Competitive salary with the potential for equity options based on performance, recognising exceptional contributions to our integration success.</li> <li>Location: UK (hybrid)</li> </ul> <h1><strong>What is it like being a Dwell-er</strong></h1> <p>Feel free to check out <a href="https://docsend.com/view/7v8gwrjaky7mn895">Dwelly Core Principles</a>. That’s about what we believe in, how we operate and make decisions.</p> <p>What we offer is not a fancy office or a static workplace. Instead, this is solving one of worlds’ most complex problems in the largest consumer industry in the world (residential rentals), to improve the experience for &gt;30% of households (&gt;5M in the UK, and &gt;100M including EU and US) that live in rental homes.</p> <p>This is about disrupting the largest, most antiquated industry in the world, with one of the strongest operational and technical teams that exist in the UK and the EU. We work hard, and we shoot for extremely ambitious results. But we want people to be proud of what they’ve built and be able to look back and say one day “hell yeah, that was me that did it all”.</p> <ul> <li>Customer obsession rather than competitive focus</li> <li>Passion for invention</li> <li>Operational excellence</li> <li>Long-term thinking</li> </ul><div class="content-conclusion"><p data-start="556" data-end="829">By applying for this position, you consent to the processing and storage of your personal data for recruitment purposes for up to 365 days, in accordance with our data retention policy and applicable data protection laws.</p></div>