Legal Counsel

Overview

As Legal Counsel at Yoto, you will steer corporate governance and a broad commercial contracts portfolio to support rapid growth. You’ll collaborate with Content, Finance, Product and Operations to keep deals compliant and the business moving confidently. You’ll simplify complex legal issues for non-lawyers and help scale processes with templates and AI-assisted tooling. Your work will directly influence partnerships, licensing, and key vendor arrangements in a fast-paced, mission-driven tech environment.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working
• income protection
• life assurance
• workplace pension
• birthday off
• sabbatical after 4 years

Responsibilities

• Support global corporate governance: board papers, minutes, resolutions, statutory registers, cap table and filings
• Manage due diligence and drafting/review of corporate documents
• Lead end-to-end review of commercial contracts incl. IP licensing, content deals, SaaS, procurement, manufacturing, marketing
• Develop and maintain contract templates, playbooks and processes; deploy AI/tools to streamline work
• Provide training on contracts and legal best practices to internal teams
• Handle ad-hoc legal projects including product counsel on consumer law, AI, data protection and IP

Key requirements

• Qualified solicitor in England & Wales (or equivalent, with right to work in UK)
• 3–6 years’ post-qualification experience in-house or at a leading law firm
• Strong drafting/negotiation experience across diverse commercial contracts
• Hands-on corporate experience including fundraising readiness and board/secretarial work
• Ability to explain complex legal issues clearly to non-lawyers
• Excellent communication and relationship skills; ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Highly organized with a practical, solution-oriented approach

• clear communication
• stakeholder influence
• cross-functional collaboration
• contract drafting and negotiation
• corporate governance and company secretarial work
• due diligence

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