(3 days per week)

As a qualified legal professional, ideally with experience as a sole in-house lawyer, this is a rare opportunity to enhance your CV and help shape the success of a science-based SME with a bright future.

As a world leader in delivering nature data and intelligence, NatureMetrics is a technology company working at the cutting edge of molecular biodiversity monitoring and bringing high-throughput DNA sequencing technologies to the frontline of environmental management around the world. We have grown rapidly over the last five years and validated our technology in multiple industry sectors and regions. With an exciting scale up plan backed by ambitious and supportive investors, we are now recruiting a Legal Counsel to collaborate with our CFO to establish the Legal function to focus on legal, governance and risk management responsibilities.

• Provide executive support and project management for Series B negotiations.
• Handle due diligence processes, shareholder communications & post-completion actions.
• Implement a framework of standard contracts.
• Define negotiation positions & service levels to empower the sales team in legal negotiations.
• Support the Sales team with non-standard contract preparation.
• Provide legal advice for the Product & Technology teams.
• Conduct data protection compliance reviews & develop compliance documents.
• Work with external legal counsel where needed.
• Draft agreements.
• Collaborate with CFO & CEO on Mergers & Acquisitions deals/agreements.

• Qualified lawyer.
• Excellent communication, organisational & time management skills.
• Able to prioritise workload based on strategic & tactical business priorities.
• Commercially astute.
• Able to work effectively in a matrixed environment.
• Highly organised with an eye for detail.
• Ideally with experience as sole in-house lawyer.
• Experience working in a start-up environment.
• Experience working within a technology company.

• £70,000 – 80,000 FTE
• 25 days holiday excluding bank holidays.
• Company pension.
• Flexible 24 hours / 3 days per week (core hours 10am to 4pm) including 1 hour paid lunch.
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Enhanced family friendly policy.
• Dedicated well-being room.
• Health insurance.
• Life Assurance.

We are advocates of a healthy work life balance and mental wellbeing. We are happy to look at flexible working options for all our roles.

At NatureMetrics diversity and inclusion are part of our DNA. Together, we continue to build an inclusive culture that encourages, supports, and celebrates the diverse voices of our employees. It fuels our innovation and connects us to the communities we work with. Our values leave no space for stereotypes. We are all unique and pull together for a common purpose.

We are an expanding science-based SME with a bright future. As a world leader in delivering nature data and intelligence, NatureMetrics brings the power of genetics to frontline environmental management. Our products allow our customers to make better decisions for business and nature. We now have an exciting scale up plan backed by ambitious and supportive investors, with a mandate to ‘bring nature into the boardroom;’ helping companies understand their impact on biodiversity and the benefits of protecting it. We are a team of bright, enthusiastic individuals who are excited to be breaking new ground and disrupting the world of biodiversity monitoring. We take great pride in our work and are seeking new team members who will do the same.