Head of Legal

Role Overview

• you will be the ultimate owner of Accurx's legal risk profile, setting a world-class standard for governance, compliance, and legal quality across a fast-scaling business.
• Reporting directly to our Chief People Officer, you will build and lead the vital legal frameworks that allow us to innovate in a high-stakes healthcare environment while maintaining absolute trust with the NHS.
• Managing all core legal domains—including commercial contracts, IP, partnership agreements, and employment law—ensuring our internal legal operations are simple, tech-enabled, and user-friendly.
• Building the legal foundations to operate as an AI-native business, keeping us ahead of an evolving regulatory landscape (UK AI Regulation, EU AI Act, MHRA, ICO) to translate rules into pragmatic product development frameworks.
• Designing and implementing a robust Governance, Risk, and Compliance framework that accurately identifies risks, prioritising mitigations to support rapid commercial growth.
• Partnering closely with Product, Technology, and Clinical leaders to actively problem-solve and embed privacy and responsible AI practices into the very fabric of how we build software.
• Developing, mentoring, and uniting a high-performing team of three direct reports (spanning Service Management, Data Protection and Legal Operations) to consistently raise the bar.
• Serving as a trusted advisor to the Board, CEO, and Executive team, providing proactive, data-driven insights on corporate governance, board updates, and investment preparedness.

Requirements

• You are a Qualified Solicitor in England & Wales (or equivalent with QLTS) with a minimum of 8+ years PQE.
• You have a proven track record working in-house within a high-growth SaaS or tech environment, specifically navigating growth stages from Series B and beyond.
• You possess exceptional judgment and commercial pragmatism, with experience partnering directly with investors, senior leadership, and Boards to deliver confident, high-stakes strategic advice.
• You bring a working knowledge of
• and a genuine passion for
• emerging AI regulatory frameworks (like the EU AI Act, ICO guidance, and MHRA medical device frameworks) and data protection.
• You have hands-on experience handling company secretarial duties, board processes, statutory compliance, and managing employee share schemes.
• You thrive with high levels of autonomy, love solving complex problems without close supervision, and are genuinely driven by our mission to fix communication in healthcare.
• Ideally, you have exposure to public sector frameworks or NHS procurement processes, understanding what it takes to sell software to regulated customers.

Benefits

• adjust your healthcare cover, your pension or life insurance, whatever stage you’re at in life
• Flexible working: We are an office first culture and ask that you’re in our (dog-friendly) Shoreditch office 3 days a week, with core hours of 10am
• 4pm
• You’ll get 28 days of holiday (plus bank holidays) and up to 4 weeks to work from anywhere per year
• enhanced parental leave, fertility support and parental loss support
• Free healthy breakfasts, snacks and lunches will be provided, with the occasional sweet treat!