• The unusual thing about this role is that you don’t have to have worked in-house, negotiated SaaS contracts, be 3 years PQE and so on! We are inviting applications from a genuinely broad spectrum of candidates and would love someone we can really help grow, whilst they also help to support our growth!
• Have an eye for detail
• Are very well organised
• Are willing to roll your sleeves up to help with a broad range of legal tasks, some of which may be at the cutting edge of crypto and others which may be administrative!
• Enjoy researching and applying better practices to drive process improvement
• Thrives on collaborating with others to solve problems
• Enjoy flexibility, both ways. Elliptic is flexible in terms of working hours and is more focussed on output. Equally, there will be times when you need to join calls outside of normal working hours given our global exposure. We anticipate a hybrid role, working 2 days a week in the office in line with our team
• Some experience in contract drafting and negotiation
• A basic understanding of Data Protection
• Ability to successfully handle multiple tasks, effectively prioritising issue escalation and resolution often under heavy time pressure but always with the support of the Senior Counsel
• We anticipate this role suiting someone of 0-3 years’ post qualification experience (PQE) and could currently be a paralegal (but this does not preclude those with similar levels of experience but different PQE from applying)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and can build great rapport with stakeholders

Desirable

• You will be responsible for assisting the Senior Counsel on a broad spectrum of legal work at Elliptic across EMEA, Americas, Singapore and Japan as well as having your own workload that is commensurate to your level of experience
• In particular, we would love for you to own some of your own contract negotiation and seize the autonomy to build relationships directly with stakeholders
• You will be working in a small but busy team, within a rapidly scaling business and it is important that you have that same growth mentality
• Negotiate commercial agreements commensurate with your experience, particularly SaaS customer standard terms, supplier and partnership agreements in accordance with our playbook and with the support of the Senior Counsel
• Provide ad hoc support to the Senior Counsel on non-commercial legal matters, such as providing research assistance
• Support the Senior Counsel to business-partner with our global (United Kingdom, Americas, Singapore and Japan) Commercial teams, serving as counsel throughout the entire life cycle process from RFI to execution
• Support the Senior Counsel to advise colleagues of the key contracting issues, in a way that is appropriate for where our business is in its growth journey. ‘Risk-appropriate, not risk-averse!’
• Own and manage our standard contracting document stacks
• Bring your own ideas to help improve the efficiency and automation of legal operations