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Job summary

A leading company in the advertising services sector seeks a Legal Director to shape their legal function and strategic direction. The successful candidate will join the senior leadership team, providing legal counsel and steering the company towards its next growth phase, aiming for Series B investment. This role offers significant responsibility for those with a strong background in legal strategy within high-growth environments.

Qualifications

10+ years PQE with a blend of top-tier law firm and in-house experience.
Strong commercial judgment and understanding of startup risks.
Highly autonomous and solutions-oriented.

Responsibilities

Build the legal function from scratch and embed legal thinking.
Act as a strategic advisor to the executive team.
Guide the business with calm judgment in high-growth environments.

Skills

Commercial judgment

Legal strategy ownership

Autonomy

Solutions-oriented

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JOB TITLE: Legal Director (In:house)

PQE REQUIRED: 10+

LOCATION: London

SALARY: GBP :Six figure + Equity

THE ROLE: 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

Contact Pasquale Agatiello at eNL on 020 or email 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
Advertising Services

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