Legal Director

eNL Legal Recruitment; London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Director of Legal to build their legal function and shape their growth strategy. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years PQE, strong commercial judgment, and the ability to operate in high-growth environments. This pivotal role requires someone skilled at making legal advice actionable while balancing risk and the pace of business.

Qualifications

• 10+ years PQE with experience in in-house roles and top-tier law firms.
• Track record in developing legal strategies in high-growth environments.
• Ability to make legal advice accessible and actionable.

Responsibilities

• Build the legal function from scratch and embed legal thinking across the business.
• Act as a strategic advisor to the executive team.
• Guide the business through complexity and help move fast with confidence.

Skills

Commercial judgment

Solutions-oriented

Ability to balance risk and velocity

Calm under pressure

Job description

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This will be a pivotal role in our clients senior leadership team. You’ll build the legal function from scratch, embedding legal thinking across the business and shaping the foundations of their next phase of growth, including their path to Series B and beyond.

You’ll act as a strategic advisor to the executive team - bringing clarity to complexity, balancing risk and velocity, and helping the business move fast with confidence. This is a role for a commercially-minded legal operator who thrives in high-growth environments and knows how to build for scale.

THE CANDIDATE:

• 10+ years PQE with a strong blend of top-tier law firm and in-house scale-up experience.
• Track record of owning legal strategy in a high-growth environment, ideally as the first legal hire or Head of Legal.
• Strong commercial judgment and deep understanding of startup risk across legal domains.
• Highly autonomous and solutions-oriented—able to cut through complexity and guide the business with calm, sound judgment.
• Skilled at making legal advice accessible, actionable, and aligned with business goals.
• Calm under pressure, highly autonomous, and motivated by impact and mission

HOW TO APPLY:

Contact Pasquale Agatiello at eNL on 020 7183 8586 or email [e-mail] with your CV, or simply call for a confidential discussion. eNL will never share your CV with a third party without your express permission. As part of our candidate care process, we aim to respond to all applications in 7 days. If you have not been contacted within this timescale, your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please note our advertisements use PQE/salary levels purely as a guide.

At eNL we value diversity and inclusion. We want to attract people at all levels and encourage applications from all suitably qualified candidates whatever your ethnicity, religion, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other characteristics protected by law in the jurisdictions in which we operate.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Legal

• Industries

  Legal Services

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