Legal Counsel, Faculty
1+ day a week in office
Making AI real
Open for applications
Making AI real
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
1+ day a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help organisations across the public and private sectors use AI to understand more deeply, make better decisions and act faster.
Role
Who you are
- This position is ideal for an ambitious lawyer with experience in private practice at a leading law firm and looking for their first in-house role, or for someone seeking a new in-house role, having come from that background
- We expect the successful candidate to have 2+ years PQE depending on appropriate skill and experience, and we are open to candidates with substantially more experience than that
- Trained and qualified with a leading international law firm and worked in commercial technology and IP teams with exposure to privacy compliance
- Strong background in commercial technology law, capable of providing counsel, negotiation, and drafting for complex contracts involving IP, privacy, government frameworks, product design and compliance, subcontracting & multi party agreements, compliance, and governance and able to adapt to provide support on employment, property, disputes, and risk management.
- Technical excellence in commercial law, IP, and privacy, capable of adapting to a wide range of contract-related demands and legal issues. Experience of procurement law and interacting with the government is a plus
- Highly organised, able to help streamline our systems and processes as we scale into a large international company. Experience with Ironclad, DocuSign, Asana and Google Workplace are pluses
- Self-driven, efficient, and proactive in addressing business needs requiring rapid and proactive support
- Collaborative, personable and a real team player. We are a small legal team and we work closely with each other on a daily basis - we would like someone who is ready to invest in that culture and make an effort to be a great team player. We would also like someone who is able to integrate across the business and work closely with our commercial and technical delivery teams
- Comfortable with data science and AI concepts and the services and products that we are delivering and that our customers require, to be able to enter into discussion and contract drafting that properly encapsulates our work
Desirable
- Litigation: Experience in dispute management
- Corporate: Knowledge of employee equity schemes, company equity, fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, partnerships, and joint ventures
- Ethics: Involvement in corporate ethics policies and processes, including customer selection and product design
- International: Experience in establishing overseas entities and familiarity with US IP, licensing, and employment regulations
What the job involves
- Faculty’s in-house legal team works to proactively address legal issues so that Faculty can drive positive impact in the world
- In many cases, there will be no precedent
- This is one of those rare in-house roles where your work will often be at the cutting edge
- As Legal Counsel, you will be a key contributor to both the legal team and the company as a whole - working across every issue Faculty faces
- You'll provide sage advice on a wide range of legal issues, with a centre of gravity around commercial & public sector contracts, IP & licensing and privacy
- As the third lawyer in the team, you will be reporting to the Senior Legal Counsel, and working closely with our General Counsel, Contracts & Compliance Manager, Legal & Compliance Associate, legal and regulatory consultants and external lawyers, as well as other Faculty staff, and technical and commercial partners
- Commercial Contracting: Drafting and negotiating various technology and services contracts, including enterprise and public sector agreements and procurement processes
- IP: Act as subject matter expert in IP matters related to AI services, including assignments, licensing, SaaS, sub-contracting, joint ventures, and IP-related to the Frontier product
- Privacy: Tailor GDPR principles to the unique contexts of NHS, government, and enterprise, including drafting DPAs, DSAs, DPIAs, and provide regular GDPR training to staff
- Public Sector Procurement: application to frameworks, supporting bids, contracting on Government and other large scale, complex frameworks, including GCloud, and Digital Outcomes amongst many
- Product: experience in SaaS products and related considerations including contracting, service level agreements and typical risks
- Generative AI & LLMs: Act as subject matter expert in IP, privacy, and regulatory issues surrounding LLMs, noting that Faculty is an official partner of OpenAI
- Governance & Security: Support the rollout of the company's Governance, Risk, Compliance & Ethics functions, ensuring compliance with customer security and governance requirements, and drafting internal policies. Supporting the evolution of the Ethics Panel, helping Faculty support the right customers and build the right services & products
- Regulatory: Understand forthcoming AI and UK privacy regulations, clinical risk regulations, US privacy requirements, and HIPAA and advising on the best course of action in innovative areas where there are no template answers
- AI Safety: have an interest in and ability to support the leadership in interpreting and articulating our response to the challenges of delivering safe, fair and ethical AI
- Employment: Support the People team with UK & international employment issues, including contract updates and exit matters
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Faculty work with companies such as Samsung, the BBC, and Just Eat to figure out what they could do with AI, and then help them to do it through implementing the right skills, strategy and software.
The team have developed a platform with large cloud computing space for accessing large amounts of data usable to design and test AI models. As businesses realise the importance of using data to drive growth and stay competitive, Faculty have focused on making AI real through real world deployments and aim provide data to organisations so that they can make better decisions.
Faculty has worked with clients in a range of different industries, including healthcare, retail, government and energy. They are just one of the many companies utilising AI, but it’s their ability to work alongside organisations and apply the findings that will really help them to succeed.
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back within 2 weeks
35% female employees
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Autonomy
"People here get a lot of trust to figure things out. They also get the chance to earn a lot of responsibility at a relatively early stage in their..."
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
May 2020
$39.9m
SERIES A
Nov 2019
$10.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $52.4m
Company benefits
- Hybrid working: We believe people have needs, responsibilities and interests that require something different to a strict working day. We trust people to organise and take accountability for their own work and do our best to support their lives outside Faculty. We provide you with all you need to work from home, including a laptop, keyboard, chair…even Sony headphones!
- Equity, we want you to benefit from Faculty’s growth and success
- Unlimited holidays: We encourage each other to use this time to take a break, work on personal projects, or to spend time with their friends and family
- Fantastic private health, optical and dental cover, for you & your family - including 24/7 unlimited virtual private GP appointments and covering pre-existing medical conditions
- Access to mental health coaching with Sanctus
- Lunch weekly, and more fruit, drinks and snacks than you could ever eat (for office-based employees)
- We work hard and make sure we enjoy what we do. So we have frequent socials and informal get-togethers to help make sure you enjoy your time with us. You’ll make friends and professional connections that will last a lifetime
Company values
- Seeking truth - We ask ourselves and each other the difficult questions, and make sure the best idea always wins
- Execute pragmatically - We focus on what’s important, make decisions fast, and adapt as needed
- Foster talent - At its core, Faculty is about fostering talent. It’s deeply ingrained in our DNA and we give our people the support and time they need to be the best they can be
- Invert, always invert - We treat nothing as set in stone, and constant seek new ways to do things better
Company HQ
Old Street, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Marc Warner
(CEO)Previously a Marie Curie Fellow in Physics at Harvard University, specialising in quantum sensing
Andrew Brookes
(CTO)Previously a CTO at Hillgate and Vice President at BlackRock
Angie Ma
(Co-Founder)Previously a Scientific Consultant at Bio Nano Consulting
People progressing
Oana joined Faculty 3 years ago, swapping investment banking for tech. She initially joined as a Senior Product Designer, progressing to Product Manager and most recently to Director of Product.
After completing her Phd in Mathematics and working in research, Kim was introduced to Faculty through our Fellowship Programme. Starting as a Data Scientist, and recently being promoted.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Faculty
Angie Ma (Co-Founder)
- AI changes everything, and so must we to make sure our people reflect the real diversity of society. We believe that recruiting talent with diverse experiences, perspectives and backgrounds encourages people to think differently and be more creative
- We welcome difference whether it’s ethnicity, religion, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation or disability so please be yourself!
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