[Hiring] Fractional Head of Legal @TheyDo

Role Description

At TheyDo, we’re building the platform that makes customer journeys the most powerful business tool there is. As we grow, the complexity of our legal landscape grows with us. That’s not a blocker, it’s an opportunity. You’ll make sure it scales with clarity, speed, and confidence.

As our Fractional Head of Legal, you’ll own and shape how legal works at TheyDo. You’ll bring structure where it’s needed, stay pragmatic where it matters, and help the business move faster with the right safeguards in place.

Role Details:

• Employment Type: Fractional, 3 days per week to cover maternity leave
• Start: June 2026
• End: February 2027 (to ensure a smooth handover with Jo, our Head of Legal)
• Legal Team: You'll be working alongside a full-time Legal Counsel

What you’ll do:

• Lead our legal function end-to-end, from day-to-day contracting to long-term strategy
• Refine and scale legal processes that support a fast-moving product and sales team
• Act as the primary go-to person for all internal legal questions
• Partner across the business
• Work closely with Sales, Product, and Leadership to unblock deals and decisions
• Translate legal complexity into clear, actionable guidance
• Enable teams to self-serve where possible with templates and playbooks
• Manage external relationships
• Collaborate with external legal partners to extend capacity and expertise
• Ensure smooth communication, clear briefs, and efficient execution
• Maintain and improve our global contract registry
• Stay on top of relevant regulatory developments
• Use technology and AI to streamline workflows and reduce manual work
• Identify opportunities to automate, simplify, and improve

Qualifications

• Qualified lawyer with strong foundational legal training
• Experience across both law firm and in-house environments
• Background in SaaS, tech
• Comfortable working across international jurisdictions
• Strong commercial mindset, you know when to push and when to move
• Clear communicator who can make complex topics easy to understand
• Proactive, self-directed, and comfortable working asynchronously
• Interest in using technology and AI to improve legal operations

Benefits

• 💰 Competitive compensation and pre-IPO equity
• 🌍 Fully remote working with flexible hours
• 🩺 Health Insurance benefit
• 🌴 Flexible holiday days
• 🧠 Learning and Development budget
• 🧘‍♂️ Wellbeing budget
• 👪 Paid parental leave
• 👨‍💻 Home office or co-working support
• 🗺️ Company events
• ⚒️ Latest tech & tools
• 🚀 Continuous growth of our benefits package as we continue to grow in size

Company Description

Our core values are the driving force behind every decision we make. We ‘Journey together’ along a path of collaboration and synchronization. In everything we do, we ‘Own it’, never shying away from taking action or making decisions. Our ‘Cloaks off’ mentality ensures that transparency and integrity reign supreme. We ‘Simply to accelerate', cutting through complexity to focus on what truly matters and moving forward with clarity and speed. Moreover, ‘Customer Fueled’ innovation is at the heart of our work, as we know that the success of our product is directly linked to how we involve our customers in the process.

TheyDo is an equal opportunities employer. Our customers are diverse, and we believe our organisation should be, too. We nurture an inclusive culture where everyone feels equally important, no matter their background or status. We will never discriminate on the grounds of gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, education, or race.

Our commitment to building a diverse and inclusive TheyDo includes making reasonable adjustments to the interview process. If you need any adjustments, please reach out to your Talent Partner.

If you are a woman or part of an underrepresented group, we encourage you to apply. Even if you don’t check every box — your skills and perspective could be just what we need to succeed. We value diversity and know you bring something unique to the table!