Founding Legal Operations Lead

Odin; London; On-site; NOK 1,007,000 - 1,259,000; Full time

Job summary

Odin, a London-based fintech building automation for private markets, seeks a legally adept operator who can automate workflows end-to-end. You will own post-close governance, deal legals, and external counsel management while driving internal process improvements with minimal supervision.

You must have real deal legal experience in funds, corporate, or financial services, and be comfortable operating within a fast-paced, regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Funds, corporate, or financial services legal experience.
• Experience turning processes into automated solutions.
• Counsel on day-to-day deal legals while streamlining work.
• Detail-oriented with end-to-end systems understanding.

Responsibilities

• Post-close and deal legals: governance, transfers, secondaries, distributions and exits.
• Legal reviews and escalations from the operations team.
• Automation of workflows with product/design/engineering input.
• Managing external counsel and cost/turnaround accountability.

Skills

AI-pilled builder

Deal legality experience

Attention to detail

First principles thinking

Commercial judgement

Operate not manage

No-code tooling

Tools

No-code tools

Job description

Odin is building the investment infrastructure for the future of private markets.
We believe capital is one of the most powerful tools for shaping the world - and more people should know how to put it to work. Our mission is to make it radically easier to raise and deploy capital, so that anyone, anywhere, can back the companies and ideas they believe in.

Our first product is a full-stack platform for launching and running private investment firms, allowing you to run everything from your phone - think Shopify for VC and PE. We handle all the infrastructure: from legal structuring and investor onboarding to KYC/AML, payments, tax, reporting, and exits.

We're already trusted by over 10,000 angels, VCs, and founders. We administer over $750m in assets, covering investments from pre-seed to series E. This includes household names like ElevenLabs, OpenAI, SpaceX, xAI, Anduril, etc. but also new companies creating everything from synthetic brains to small nuclear reactors.

Why we're hiring

• We are automating a decades old part of the financial services industry. AI pilled operators like you are the beating heart of this plan, because LLMs & agents allow us to turn this services business entirely into software.

• We're post-PMF, fast-growing, and rolling out new products (fund admin) & geographies (USA). Customer & deal volume is climbing fast.

• Today we're on track for roughly 700 deals a year, with a team of ~20, and we’ll process $500m-$750m of investment in 2026 alone.

• The next goal is 7,000 deals a year and billions in annual investment flows.

• We believe this can be achieved with a team of around 50 people. But it will only be possible if we turn human-driven services workflows into software.

• The operational machine behind Odin is still held together in many places by people and spreadsheets. Your job is to come in, understand every process and system, simplify, streamline and automate the shit out of it.

• You’ll be part of a small elite team embedded in operations and working closely with existing team members to build agents that automate work.

• This is a legal role with heavy operational involvement and a requirement to build things. It is not a legal counsel role. You'll be qualified, you'll be able to act as counsel on day to day deal legals, but you'll sit close to the work and focus on streamlining / automating the systems generating the work in the first place.

• We expect the right hire to be spending more time in Claude Code than in Microsoft Word or Docusign.

What you'll own

• Post-close and deal legals: You’ll own post-close: governance events, transfers, secondaries, distributions and exits. There is huge surface area for automation here too. You’ll also take care of the unusual issues where our documentation doesn't cleanly answer a question.

• Legal Reviews & Escalations: Every legal escalation coming out of the operations team.

• Automation: You'll work alongside the deal operations team, with a standing instruction to automate their work. You'll bring product/design/engineering into the things that genuinely need significant engineering work, but you’ll mainly work autonomously without them. Before it gets to them you've already made the process as simple and fast as possible, and usually vibe coded something that works well but perhaps needs to be stabilised / scaled.

• Managing external counsel: You’ll help decide what stays in-house, what goes out, and hold external advisers to account on cost and turnaround.

What we're looking for

• AI-pilled builder: Clear evidence, at work or in your own time, that you've built concrete solutions to problems with no budget and no engineers. No-code tooling, scripts, spreadsheets, vibe-coded apps and more.

• Qualified, with real deal legals experience: Funds, corporate, or financial services.

• In the details and extremely on top of things: You understand every single aspect of our systems end to end. You close loops, you chase, you push hard to get things done.

• First principles thinker: Although you're in the details and on top of execution, you also zoom out. You look at any process the way a good product manager looks at a product: What's the job? Why are we doing this at all? What's the smallest, simplest system that achieves the goal?
  A lot of what happens in fund admin is inherited convention, an industry "given", or a constraint of some third party. You should find it physically difficult to accept any of that.

• Commercial judgement at speed: You're comfortable in a regulated business and comfortable with the fact that commercial and regulatory pressure sometimes point in different directions. You are able to make decisions autonomously in this environment.

• You want to operate, not manage: Odin is not a place for middle management. We all get shit done, regardless of title or seniority

How we work

There are five things we care about deeply:

1. Reason from the ground up: Seek to understand what is true by always asking why. Do not trust convention or experts.

2. Speed begets speed: We work fast. Speed compounds, it's the best form of defensibility, and it's energising to be around. If you work slowly, or tolerate slow work around you, you do not belong at Odin.

3. Take ownership: Do not wait for permission to do things. Find the answer, force the thing into existence and hold others to an extremely high standard - the same standard you hold yourself to.

4. Brutal honesty: If work doesn't meet the bar, people need to hear it, and the right people want to.

5. Truly excellent customer service: Be a stickler for detail in every single interaction a customer has with us, and always strive to make this experience better, smoother, faster.

This role is probably not for you if

• You want to practise law in a firm, or you want a purely advisory seat with a wall between you and the operation;

• You need complete information before you'll give a view;

• You'd rather build product than operate. Product instinct is required in this role, but a product management career is not what this is;

• You prefer close management of your responsibilities;

• You are risk-averse;

• You want a 9-5;

• You take yourself too seriously;

• You care about working for a company that’s raised lots of money rather than one that's extremely capital efficient and focused on building a profitable giant that has a positive economic impact

Salary

£80k - £100k base, plus a meaningful equity grant. We're flexible on the mix of cash and equity.

Location & ways of working

We're a London-based team. This role works closely with the founders, product and the wider ops team, and the speed we run at makes that much easier in-person. At least three days a week in the office.

Benefits

• Health: Private health insurance (Vitality), paid sick leave including support for pregnancy loss and fertility treatments, and access to Spill for mental health support

• Wellness: £1,000 annual budget for health, therapy or fitness

• Parental Leave: Enhanced maternity, adoption, paternity and partner leave

• Pension: 4% employer contribution with salary sacrifice options

• Time Off: 25 days annual leave, 2 wellness days and flexible bank holidays (33 days total)

• Work From Anywhere: Up to 6 weeks per year working from anywhere globally

• Birthday Leave: An additional day of leave