Legal Counsel
📝 Company Mission
Our mission is to give the world access to the best products by empowering great businesses to reach their growth potential.
💼 About Wayflyer
Today's SMBs need a capital provider that keeps pace with their growth ambitions. Traditional financing options are slow, cumbersome and often out of reach. That's why we built Wayflyer.
Our unique technology allows us to assess businesses in minutes, generate financing offers that reflect their growth potential and send funds in as little as 24 hours.
Since launching in April 2020, we've deployed over $5bn to thousands of businesses worldwide, backed by Tier 1 banks like J.P. Morgan. We've become a trusted financing partner for some amazing brands, like True Classic, Little Words Project and Kekoa Foods.
Teams at Wayflyer are truly cross-functional. You'll be collaborating with ambitious colleagues from around the world - all striving to deliver on a huge opportunity. Check out this video to hear directly from them.
💛 Culture & Values at Wayflyer
At Wayflyer, we value being sound people, excellent operators, and ambitious overachievers, working together with integrity, creativity, and bold optimism to deliver exceptional results. To learn more, please visit our website.
🚀 Your Role at a Glance: The key ways you'll bring value to the team
We have an exciting opportunity for a motivated and flexible lawyer to join Wayflyer's Legal team. As a FinTech company, this role will be critical and impactful, supporting internal teams, working with third parties, and providing day-to-day and strategic advice on transactions and a broad range of legal matters.
Support our CLO on corporate transactions and strategic initiatives, including equity raises, acquisitions, inter-company arrangements and other ad hoc transactions. This will include: supporting the management and execution of transactions; drafting, reviewing and coordinating transaction documentation, pre and post-completion deliverables and ancillary documents; and working closely with internal teams and external advisers to ensure the smooth and efficient completion of transactions.
Lead and manage our global company secretarial requirements across the group, including ensuring Irish and international statutory compliance, maintaining of statutory registers and records and liaising with external company secretarial providers.
Partner with our Finance and People teams to support our equity management processes, including maintaining cap tables, liaising with equity platform providers, managing employee queries and processing equity transactions.
Partner with our Finance team to support audit processes.
Provide ad hoc legal support to internal stakeholders on a range of matters relating to Wayflyer’s financial products, such as customer deals and vendor commercial contracts.
Partner with our Capital Markets and Finance teams on a broad range of financing and debt capital markets transactions.
Manage and coordinate external counsel in multiple jurisdictions (primarily the US and Europe as well as other jurisdictions relevant to our business) where required to ensure timely and expert support.
Drive continuous improvements in governance, documentation, company secretarial and other internal processes, including through the leveraging of AI tools and agent-driven workflows.
🔨 What Makes You a Great Fit
You are an Irish or UK qualified lawyer.
You have 1 - 3 years’ experience working as a transactional lawyer, either in practice or in-house, with experience in corporate M&A, capital markets and/or banking matters.
You ideally have some experience with company secretarial matters, whether through your day-to-day role or as part of a training seat, and are comfortable leading on company secretarial and statutory compliance requirements.
You have strong commercial acumen and attention to detail, can work autonomously without the need for significant guidance or input and can make risk-based decisions, seeking appropriate guidance and input at appropriate junctures.
You demonstrate strong curiosity about AI, automation and agent-driven workflows and how these tools can be applied to drive improvements and efficiencies across legal, compliance and company secretarial processes.
You are able to work collaboratively with internal stakeholders to drive efficiencies in transaction processes.
You can work at pace and deal effectively with ambiguity.
You have a proactive approach with excellent interpersonal skills and have the ability to use your initiative and work as part of a team.
You are flexible (and can work flexible hours to suit business requirements) and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment.
You have strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise your own workload and manage competing deadlines.
You have an ownership mentality, always seeking to improve Wayflyer's success, even in functions outside of Legal.
You have high energy and enthusiasm for how the legal department can bring value to the business and help it resolve some of its hardest problems.
Experience with G-Suite, DocuSign, Notion and/or equity management platforms such as Ledgy would be an advantage but are not required.
🤝 What to Expect After You Apply
You can expect to hear from a member of our Talent Acquisition team soon. If we believe you're a good fit, the first step will be a conversation with a recruiter who will guide you through the next stages of the process. The full interview process, which includes meeting the Hiring Manager and completing a case study or interview loop, typically takes approximately 2-4 weeks.
🏖️The Perks of Being at Wayflyer
🌴 Time Off That Matters
Recharge with 25 days of paid annual leave, plus public holidays.
🧘 Your Wellbeing
Access support and resources to support your wellbeing, including our Wellbeing @ Wayflyer ERG.
🫀 Comprehensive Health & Protection
Stay covered with private healthcare, life insurance, and critical illness cover.
👵 Secure Your Future with Our Pension Plan
Our pension plan helps you build a strong foundation for tomorrow, starting today.
🍼 Family-First Policies
We provide a generous parental and adoptive leave program for both Primary and Secondary caregivers, ensuring you have the dedicated, fully paid time you need to focus on your family.
💰 Share in Our Success
With our equity scheme, you're not just an employee; you're a stakeholder in our journey.
🌴 Work From Abroad!
Enjoy the freedom to work remotely from anywhere in the world for up to 60 calendar days a year.
📍Global Offices and Working Policy
🇮🇪 Dublin, Our Buzzing HQ
Our headquarters operates a hybrid model. The number of in-office days depends on your team, but the majority of teams and our SLT are typically in 3-4 days per week, giving you valuable exposure to senior leadership.
🇬🇧 London, One Big Family
Home to around 30 employees, our brand-new London office also runs on a hybrid model. You’ll often find our CEO working alongside the team with regular visits.
🇦🇺 Sydney, Small but Mighty
Our close-knit Sydney office has around 20 employees and follows a flexible hybrid model, fostering strong collaboration.
🇺🇸 Charlotte, our new US-HQ
Charlotte is our US headquarters and the foundation of our North American growth. From our Uptown office, our teams collaborate closely, build relationships and drive impact across the region, with a setup designed for both focus and flexibility.
🌍 Remote, Across the US & Europe
The majority of our Tech org works remotely across the UK and Europe, coming together throughout the year for off-sites, company kick off and technical kick off. We also have a growing number of remote team members across the US.
💡 How We Handle Your Personal Data
By submitting your application, you acknowledge that Wayflyer Limited will process your personal data for the purpose of evaluating your suitability for the role. Such processing is based on the need to take steps prior to entering into a potential employment agreement. To learn more about how we handle your personal data, you can contact our privacy team at privacy@wayflyer.com or review our privacy notice at https://wayflyer.com/privacy-notice.