Legal Counsel
What we’re all about.
Quantexa empowers organisations to make data meaningful and drive more informed and actionable decisions. By harnessing the latest advancements in data and AI, Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence Platform creates context to uncover hidden risk and new opportunities within data, that drives better, more trusted operational business decisions. Founded in 2016, Quantexa has accomplished rapid global expansion growing 100% year on year. In just over four years, we’ve grown to over 800 staff across offices in North America, UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia Pacific, and Japan.
At Q, we’re looking for people who share that vision. People like you.
The opportunity.
Quantexa is looking for a dynamic and commercially minded lawyer to join our high-performing Legal team as a trusted partner to the General Counsel. This role supports a wide range of legal matters across our fast-growing, international business and offers real exposure to strategic decision-making.
Our Legal team is driven to deliver world-class support and practical, innovative solutions that enable our business leaders to focus on creating meaningful impact for our clients, colleagues, and long-term strategy. We are hands-on, outcome-focused, and accountable for delivering to a high standard.
You’ll bring strong communication skills, both written and verbal, alongside sharp attention to detail and a pragmatic, solutions-oriented mindset. Curious, agile, and commercially aware, you’ll be comfortable navigating complexity and turning legal insight into clear, actionable advice.
The role has a primary focus on EMEA legal matters and business growth, while also offering the opportunity to gain broad international experience across a rapidly scaling organisation. You’ll work closely with, and report directly to, Quantexa’s General Counsel.
What you’ll be doing.
- Partnering with stakeholders across multiple functions to support the Legal team’s objectives and Quantexa’s wider ambitions.
- Building trusted relationships with colleagues, customers, and business leaders across the organisation.
- Acting as a key legal lead for EMEA matters, based from our London HQ, while contributing to global and central legal initiatives.
- Providing clear, commercially grounded advice on strategic risks, mitigations, and improved ways of working.
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of commercial agreements, including software licences, reseller agreements, professional services and outsourcing contracts, hosting arrangements, and collaboration agreements.
- Assessing and mitigating compliance and reputational risks, including anti-bribery and corruption matters.
- Supporting company secretarial, corporate governance, and wider corporate compliance activities.
- Advising on data privacy risks and supporting the implementation of company-wide legal initiatives.
- Working closely with leading external counsel across multiple jurisdictions and building strong international partnerships.
Requirements
What you’ll bring.
- Qualified lawyer with at least 3 years’ post‑qualification experience, either in-house or in private practice.
- Strong commercial judgement, with the ability to identify and communicate legal risks clearly and propose pragmatic, business-focused mitigation strategies.
- Experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating complex commercial contracts in an international context.
- Proven ability to support and manage third-party engagements and partnerships, providing clear legal advice that enables business outcomes.
- Customer-focused, taking pride in providing responsive, high-quality legal support that makes it easier for teams to operate confidently.
- Ideally, experience with corporate governance matters and/or exposure to regulated environments such as financial services, government, or public sector contexts.
- Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced, scaling business, managing competing priorities with minimal supervision.
- Experience working across multiple jurisdictions, with the ability to navigate differing legal frameworks and cultural environments.
- Excellent attention to detail and the ability to distil complex legal issues into clear, actionable summaries for stakeholders.
Benefits
Our perks and quirks
What makes you Q will help you to realise your full potential, flourish and enjoy what you do, while being recognised and rewarded with our broad range of benefits.
We offer
- Competitive salary & Company bonus 💰
- Private healthcare, Life Insurance & Income Protection
- Cycle Scheme and TechScheme
- Free Calm App Subscription #1 app for meditation, relaxation and sleep 🧘♀️
- Pension Scheme with a company contribution of 6% (if you contribute 3%)
- 25 days annual leave (with the option to buy up to 5 days) + birthday off! 🌴
- Ongoing personal development
- Great WeWork Office Space & Company wide socials
Our mission
We have one mission. To help businesses grow. To make data easier. And to make the world a better place. We’re not a start-up. Not anymore. But we’ve not been around that long either. What we are is a collection of bright, passionate minds harnessing complexities and helping our clients and their communities. One culture, made of many. Heading in one direction – the future.
It's all about you
Quantexa is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive and diverse work environment, where everyone feels welcome, valued, and respected. We want to hear from people who are passionate about their work and align with our values. Qualified applications will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, colour, ancestry, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, citizenship, marital, disability, or veteran status. Whoever you are, if you’re a curious, caring, and authentic human being who wants to help push the boundaries of what’s possible, we want to hear from you.
Internal pay equity across departments is crucial to our global compensation philosophy. Grade level and salary ranges are determined through interviews and a review of experience, education, training, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, equity with other team members, and alignment with market data.
Quantexa is committed to providing reasonable accommodations in our talent acquisition processes. If you require support, please inform our Talent Acquisition Team.
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