[Hiring] Head of Legal @Pinpoint

Role Description

Hi 👋 I'm Ellis, COO at Pinpoint. We're a high growth HR tech company building software that helps in house recruitment teams attract, hire, and onboard the right talent. Today we have a strong foundation in place: a mature product, rapid growth, strong product market fit, and happy customers.

We've built strong operational foundations, but we've never had a dedicated lawyer. Legal work has been landing on the ops team, contract volume is up sharply, and the product is moving into even more regulated territory. We need someone to own legal end to end so our deals keep moving and our customers stay confident, which is why we're hiring a Head of Legal.

The fine print: This is a remote role based in the UK, with occasional in person team meetups. You'll be our first dedicated legal hire, so you're building the function and inheriting the old contracts and processes at the same time. You'll be the sole member of the legal team and will own both the judgment and the tactical work: marking up contracts, chasing signatures, building templates, and staying on top of compliance. There's no one to delegate to, and there's no escalation for the day to day slog. The volume is heavy, and the pace is fast. This role suits someone who likes to build and who's hands on; it's not a quiet compliance desk.

Our values actually matter here. We hire people who reflect them in how they work, collaborate, and make decisions.

Qualifications

• 4+ years as a qualified lawyer, or as a contracts manager, legal ops lead or commercial manager with real negotiation authority
• A clear point of view on SaaS commercial terms (what's standard, what's risky, where to flex) from owning customer side contracts end to end: MSAs, order forms, DPAs, NDAs, red lines and liability caps
• Hands on UK and EU GDPR experience: DPAs, DPIAs, DSARs, sub processors, records of processing and international transfers, done as a practitioner, not only from a policy seat
• Time in a scaling company (roughly 30 to 250 people), with limited resources, shifting priorities and a lot of context switching
• Breadth over narrow specialism: happy owning everything from a small order form to our data posture to exit readiness
• A bias toward finding the defensible yes and containing the risk, rather than blocking deals and calling it caution
• Comfort making the call: assess the ask, propose the route, and escalate only the genuine trade offs
• Quick to pick up new tools, and comfortable pushing AI further in your work
• Clear, concise communication that helps other teams move
• Self motivated and happy working independently

Requirements

• Sales legal (35%):
  • Own commercial contracting end to end: our MSA, DPA and customer red lines.
  • Turn around a high volume of reviews at pace.
  • Set and publish a legal SLA for sales.
  • Own our risk tolerance and playbook.
  • Run legal intake.
  • Build the playbooks, fallback positions and templates.
• Data protection, governance and audit readiness (30%):
  • Own data protection across the business.
  • Keep us on the right side of UK and EU GDPR, US state privacy law.
  • Make audit readiness a habit.
  • Get us diligence ready.
• Product legal (20%):
  • Partner with Product and Engineering.
  • Own regulatory compliance as the landscape shifts.
• Partnerships, NDAs and supplier terms (15%):
  • Draft and negotiate partnership, reseller and referral agreements.
  • Own NDAs, supplier and vendor terms.
  • Keep supplier and integration partner terms robust and commercial.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare: excellent medical, dental and vision coverage for you and your family
• Unlimited holidays: take the time you need to rest and recharge
• Mental health support: unlimited, immediate access to professional counselling via Spill
• Retirement contributions: 401k or pension contributions depending on your location
• Remote first: work where you're most productive, with flexibility and trust as the default
• Equity with real upside: share in the long term value you help create
• Fully paid parental leave: up to 16 weeks of paid leave for new parents
• Learning budget: annual funds for courses, books or anything that supports your growth