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, and the volume is climbing fast: contract volume is up sharply, and the product is moving into even more regulated territory. We need someone to own the legal end to end so our deals keep moving and our customers stay confident. That's where you come in.
The fine print (but more exciting):
- 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.
Sales legal (35%)
- Own commercial contracting end to end: our MSA, DPA, and customer red lines. You're who the Account Executives bring a marked up agreement to, and you're who closes it out
- Turn around a high volume of reviews at pace. Contract volume is spiking, driven by growth and by the rise in AI usage, and we need someone commercial and pragmatic to own it
- Set and publish a legal SLA for sales, so turnaround is a promise, not a guess
- Own our risk tolerance and playbook: liability caps, indemnities, termination. Know where we flex, where we hold, and when to escalate
- Run legal intake: triage what needs you, what sales can self serve, and what genuinely needs external counsel
- Build the playbooks, fallback positions, and templates that let AEs answer the easy questions without you
Product legal (20%)
- Partner with Product and Engineering as we build in a regulated space: background screening, right to work, DBS and credit checks, and AI-assisted hiring features
- Own regulatory compliance as the landscape shifts: UK and EU GDPR, FCRA, the EU AI Act, and a growing patchwork of US state law
Partnerships, NDAs, and supplier terms (15%)
- Draft and negotiate partnership, reseller, and referral agreements, including integration and marketplace partners
- Own NDAs, supplier and vendor terms, and the contract lifecycle from template to signature to renewal
- Negotiate with suppliers and integration partners so those terms stay robust and commercial
Data protection, governance, and audit readiness (30%)
- Own data protection across the business: our DPA, sub processor management, DPIAs, DSARs, records of processing, and international transfers
- Keep us on the right side of UK and EU GDPR, US state privacy law, and the local regimes that surface in deals (Quebec Law 25 and China's PIPL are recent examples)
- Make audit readiness a habit, not a scramble, with policies that reflect what we actually do
- Lead due diligence readiness: corporate housekeeping, share and option documentation, and cleaning up historic contractual exposure before someone else finds it
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4+ years of experience as a qualified lawyer or as a contracts manager, legal ops lead, or commercial manager with real negotiation authority.
- Experience in a scaling company environment (roughly 50 to 250 people), with limited resources, changing priorities, and a lot of context switching.
- Clear point of view on SaaS commercial terms: what is standard, what is risky, and where to flex, based on owning customer side SaaS commercial contracts end to end, including MSAs, order forms, DPAs, NDAs, red lines, and liability caps.
- Breadth over narrow specialism: comfort owning legal end-to-end, from a small order form to our data posture to exit readiness, across commercial contracting, data protection, and product legal.
- Hands on UK and EU GDPR experience: DPAs, DPIAs, DSARs, sub processors, records of processing, and international transfers, done as a practitioner rather than only from a policy or compliance seat.
- Bias toward finding the defensible yes and containing the risk, rather than blocking deals and calling it caution.
- Comfort making the call: assessing the ask, proposing the route, and escalating only the genuine trade offs, rather than needing every decision to be precedented or signed off from above.
- Technically adept and quick to pick up new tools. Pinpoint leans heavily on AI, Claude in particular, so being comfortable getting up to speed fast and pushing it further matters.
- Clear, concise communication that enables other teams rather than blocking them.
- Happy working independently and highly self motivated, with a habit of unblocking problems and proposing a route forward.
We want Pinpoint to be the best place you’ve ever worked—somewhere you feel valued, supported, and excited to grow. Here’s what you’ll get:
- Comprehensive healthcare – Excellent medical, dental, & 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 counseling 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
A detailed overview of our benefits can be found here.
We’re changing the way companies hire, and rewriting the rules of recruitment.
We’re a high-growth HR tech company building software that makes hiring faster, fairer, and more human, fixing the broken processes that make it hard for great candidates and great companies to find each other.
Founded in 2018, we bootstrapped our way to 500+ customers and £5M ARR before raising private equity funding in 2023 to support our next stage of growth. Today, we’re a 90-person team across the U.K. and U.S., serving more than 1,000 organizations worldwide. We scale deliberately, with sensible unit economics and no layoffs, because we’re building for the long term—not the next funding round.
Our product is deep and configurable enough to support complex hiring workflows, yet simple enough for teams to love using every day. That balance is what makes Pinpoint different. We back it up with genuine care, including fast (under 90 seconds) support from real people who know the product.
Our culture is built on genuine transparency and values we actually use to make decisions. Even as we’ve moved past early-startup noise, everyone here still shapes how we operate—taking ownership, staying curious, and solving problems proactively. As we scale, we balance structure with flexibility while holding ourselves to a high bar for respect and kindness.
If you’re excited by meaningful problems, high ownership, and working with smart, kind teammates, we’d love to hear from you.
