Hybrid: 2 days per week in our Tower Bridge office
RVU
RVU is a group of online brands that include: Confused, Uswitch, Tempcover, money.co.uk, and Mojo Mortgages. We reach the majority of UK households, putting us in a unique position to drive the transformation of the household services sector.
We harness cutting-edge tech and data to help consumers manage their homes more effectively, and we provide some of the UK’s biggest companies with unparalleled insight into what customers need and want.
Since our founding in 2018, we’ve integrated our 5 market-leading digital brands into a powerful data platform, supercharging our capabilities to drive lasting change, and by working with providers and policymakers, we’re helping transform entire industries — making markets more competitive and more innovative to benefit everyone.
About the role
We’ve got an opportunity in our London office for a qualified legal professional to join us on a 12 month fixed term basis, providing trusted legal advice to our commercial teams and contributing to new products and initiatives - no two days will be the same!
You’ll have an interest in a varied commercial legal workload, with strong drafting and negotiating skills, and the ability to apply them independently to drive the business forward and create real value.
Alongside the core legal counsel duties, you'll be identifyingopportunities to drive productivity in our legal processes through the use of AI tooling. You’ll then roll-out improvements to the broader legal team and legal stakeholders.
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Working with our business teams to draft, negotiate, and execute commercial agreements
- Identify processes within the legal function and its interface with the business where AI tooling or other technology could improve productivity or quality, and lead their implementation
- Providing day-to-day legal perspective and guidance, as well as risk assessment and mitigation
- Advising our business teams on compliance with data protection and e-privacy laws
- Work with colleagues across the legal team and wider business to embed new ways of working, including supporting adoption, training, and measuring impact.
Essential:
- 1 to 5 years’ post-qualification experience in-house or at a commercial or corporate law firm with experience providing full-service commercial legal support (the reference to PQE is a guide only. We welcome applications from candidates with more or less PQE)
- Demonstrable experience of implementing AI tooling and a passion for transforming legal processes
- An experience and appreciation of the challenges and requirements of delivering legal support in a fast-moving commercial in-house team
- Ability to be impactful from an early stage
- Qualified to practice as a solicitor in England and Wales (or another common law jurisdiction)
- Proven technical ability to draft and negotiate complex commercial agreements to tight timescales
- Experience of advising on IT, data protection/e-privacy laws as well as commercial and law.
Desirable:
- Knowledge of intellectual property, competition law and regulated sector experience
- Knowledge of the insurance and/or financial services
- Experience of Harvey, Luminance or Legora.
Our commitment to you
We are dedicated to developing valuable, inclusive, and user-friendly products and services that deliver positive outcomes for all of our customers. To achieve this, it’s essential that our teams reflect the diverse range of people in our community. We believe in being the change we wish to see in the world, by embracing our differences and holding ourselves accountable to being open and inclusive teammates and wider community members.
We want to give you a great work environment, support your growth both personally and professionally, and provide benefits that make your time at RVU even more enjoyable. Here are some of the benefits you can look forward to:
- 10% discretionary yearly bonus and yearly pay reviews (based on RVU and personal performance)
- A hybrid working approach with 2 in-office days per week and up to 22 working days per year to “work from anywhere”
- Employer-matching pension contributions up to 7.5%
- A one-off £300 “work from home” budget to help contribute towards a great work environment at home
- Excellent maternity, paternity, shared parental, and adoption leave policy, for those key moments in your life
- 25 days holiday (increasing with years of employment to 30 days) + 2 days “my time” per year
- Private medical cover, critical illness cover, and employee assistance programme
- A healthy learning and training budget
- Electric vehicle and cycle to work schemes
- Free in-office gym, accessible 7 days a week
- Free breakfast in the office daily
- You’ll be equipped with great technology (choice of Mac or Windows)
- Free access to the Calm and Peppy app for physical and mental health
- Regular events - from team socials to company-wide events with insightful external speakers, we want to make sure our colleagues continue to feel connected.
We combine the close-knit and agile environment of a start-up with the know-how, technology, and backing of a well-established company.
We use our shared knowledge to empower people and help them make decisions confidently across a range of household services. Our purpose is to simplify complex marketplaces with accessible applications that genuinely improve people’s lives.
The RVU mission is clear: empowering people, transforming industries. With our unique set of brands under the RVU umbrella, we have the power to reach millions of consumers and the technology to deliver a world-class online experience for them.
