Head of Legal, Tyk
9 Months Fixed-Term Contract
Offers Employee share scheme
Open-source API gateway & API management platform
Job no longer available
Open-source API gateway & API management platform
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
Offers Employee share scheme
101-200 employees
Company mission
Tyk's mission is to connect every system in the world through finely-tooled, performant engineering. Tyk is an open-source API Gateway that is fast, scalable and modern.
Role
Who you are
- Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales with extensive experience in-house (technology focus). NY admission will also be considered
- Experience of SaaS contracts, software licensing, and software development
- The ability to identify relevant business and legal issues proactively, define and assess the materiality of risks, find creative solutions to maintain business momentum
- First-class communication skills and an ability to explain complex legal issues and requirements to a range of internal and external stakeholders (including but not limited to our customers and investors, VCs)
- Balance attention to detail with swift execution
- Natural enjoyment from rolling your sleeves up and the general hustle of a scaling global business
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Head of Legal for a cover of 9 months full time, to provide legal support to various departments across Tyk
- Reporting to the CFO on a day to day basis, this role will also involve directly advising, supporting and challenging the wider business on a range of commercial, employment and company secretarial matters
- Provide hands-on support to our sales team. Review, draft and negotiate sales contracts. Direct interaction with our customers via contract negotiation processes. Championing Tyk processes - ensuring these are understood and followed by the team
- Review, negotiate and conclude business-contracts more generally, including supplier contracts. Providing proactive and timely support to Tyk’s procurement platform
- Proactively identify relevant business and legal issues, define and assess the materiality of risks and find creative solutions
- Horizon scan and provide advice to the business on changes to laws and regulation to ensure Tyk conducts its business in accordance with the evolving legal landscape
- Provide support and guidance on all matters relating to data protection, privacy and GDPR regulations
- Work together with our compliance team to ensure Tyk is well placed to respond to any future due diligence processes, compliance reviews or audits
- Maintain and regularly review our key standard legal documents & templates such as client contracts, data and privacy policies, terms and conditions, NDAs, etc
Our take
Tyk provides an API management platform that allows companies to share data securely with third parties, allowing them to sell their services through non-direct channels.
The API gateway and management platform serves as a management and security layer between APIs, to make it easier for businesses to harness their power on a huge scale. Product acts as a security layer between the organisation’s API and those who require access to it.
The company powers millions of transactions per day, for thousands of organisations including AXA, Cisco, Trip Advisor, Starbucks, Domino’s, Sephora and the UK Ministry of Justice.
The company used its 2021 funding to accelerate the growth of its API management platform, particularly around the GraphQL-focused Universal Data Graph product.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
38% female employees
-10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2021
$35m
SERIES B
Apr 2019
$5.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $40.3m
Company benefits
- Everyone has unlimited paid holiday
- We have total flexibility in hours, as we believe creativity flows better when our people are given freedom to decide when they are most productive. Everyone is unique after all
- Employee share scheme
- Generous maternity and paternity leave
- Company retreats
Company HQ
Shoreditch, London
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Founders
Martin Buhr
(CEO)Previously Head of Technology and Product Development at Lucky Voice for 3 years and Technical Architect at LBi for 1 year
People progressing
Joined as Lead Engineer, promoted to Head Of Engineering after 3 years
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