Own commercial and product legal work, including contracts, privacy policies, GDPR compliance, corporate documentation, and practical legal guidance for cross-functional teams.
Commercial Counsel
📜 Description
- Advise the business as a commercially minded legal partner, reporting to the General Counsel.
- Draft and negotiate enterprise customer contracts with Sales and customer legal teams.
- Support Partnerships on channel, referral, reseller, and insurer agreements.
- Review and negotiate supplier contracts and respond to commercial legal enquiries.
- Maintain contract templates and playbooks and support the online contracting platform.
- Update end-user terms and conditions, advise on privacy and regulatory questions, and flag risks on new projects.
🛠️ Requirements
- UK-qualified solicitor, ideally trained in a law firm, with at least 2 years PQE.
- Experience negotiating contracts with large enterprise businesses or experienced lawyers.
- Demonstrable experience and interest in corporate, commercial, and privacy law.
- Comfortable learning and using software tools.
- B2B SaaS in-house experience is a plus.
- Employment law knowledge, international work experience, or experience in a highly regulated environment is a plus.
✨ Benefits
- Access to Peppy: You can receive free unlimited access to the Peppy app to use our Menopause, Fertility, Pregnancy & Parenthood, Women’s Health, Men’s Health or Neurodiversity services.
- Health & Wellbeing: You will receive Private Medical Insurance through Vitality, including VitalityGP, optical, dental and hearing coverage.
- Parental Leave: We have a generous Enhanced Family Leave policy, whether you or your partner are giving birth, going through surrogacy or adoption.
- Pension: We offer an up to 5% employer pension contribution scheme through Cushon.
- Holidays: Peppy employees get 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays.
- Remote-First: We're a remote-first business, rather than remote-only. So you can choose between working from home, or in our Holborn office.
- Socials: We encourage our employees to join our in-person team events and socials to build stronger connections within your team. If you live outside London, your travel expenses for these events are on us too!
- Tech: New joiners receive a company MacBook delivered in time for your first day.
Full job description
Hey! Thanks for taking the time to read through one of our open roles. We’re looking for an exceptional Commercial Counsel to join our Legal team and we hope this could be a match made in heaven.
Who is Peppy?
Our mission is to make expert-led healthcare simple, human and stigma-free. Because everyone deserves support that is life changing.
We are a B2B digital healthcare app that gives employees unlimited, confidential access to expert clinicians who understand the health moments that shape everyday life – women’s health, men’s health, fertility, pregnancy & parenthood, menopause and neurodiversity.
We are a Series B company with $56m in funding to date, operationally cashflow positive, and with secure access to additional capital for accelerated growth. Join us for the ride of your life.
What will a day in the life of our Commercial Counsel look like?
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Report directly to our General Counsel and act as a trusted, commercially minded advisor to the business.
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Partner closely with the Sales team, leading on the drafting and negotiation of enterprise customer contracts and helping get deals over the line quickly.
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Negotiate directly with large enterprise customers’ in-house legal teams, balancing risk with the commercial outcome the business needs.
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Support our Partnerships team on channel and partner agreements, including referral, reseller and insurer arrangements.
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Review, draft and negotiate supplier contracts, and handle the commercial enquiries that come into the legal team.
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Create, update and manage our commercial contract templates and playbooks, and support queries relating to our online contracting platform, so the business can contract faster.
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Keep our end user terms and conditions up to date, and support on privacy and regulatory questions as they relate to our commercial agreements.
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Flag risks on new projects and business ventures to teams across the business, escalating where required.
Our dream Commercial Counsel will have:
The "Must-Haves":
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UK qualified solicitor, ideally having trained in a law firm, at least 2 years PQE.
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Experience negotiating contracts with other large enterprise businesses in-house legal teams or with experienced lawyers.
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Demonstrable experience and interest in corporate, commercial and privacy law.
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Tech-savvy individual comfortable with working with and learning new software tools.
The "Nice-to-Haves":
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Prior experience in a B2B SaaS business in-house role
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Good understanding of employment law and International work experience.
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Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
You may not check all of these boxes, and that’s totally fine! We strongly encourage excited candidates of all backgrounds to apply.
Still looking for more intel?
Here’s some other really cool things about Peppy which might be helpful:
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We raised a $45mil Series B fundraise January 2023, led by Albion VC
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We’re one of Europe’s fastest growing HealthTech scale-ups
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Our clients and partners include Clifford Chance, Capgemini, Santander, Aviva and Coty (just to name a few!)
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We are remote-first, headquartered in the UK with 80+ employees across the UK and USA
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We're proudly B-corp certified and mission-led, and
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We are rated one of the Top Startups to work for by LinkedIn, Sifted, Tempo and Flexa.
Much like us, we know you’re into perks and benefits, so here’s a list of ours:
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Access to Peppy: You can receive free unlimited access to the Peppy app to use our Menopause, Fertility, Pregnancy & Parenthood, Women’s Health, Men’s Health or Neurodiversity services.
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Health & Wellbeing: You will receive Private Medical Insurance through Vitality, including VitalityGP, optical, dental and hearing coverage.
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Parental Leave: We have a generous Enhanced Family Leave policy, whether you or your partner are giving birth, going through surrogacy or adoption.
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Pension: We offer an up to 5% employer pension contribution scheme through Cushon.
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Holidays: Peppy employees get 25 days holiday per year, plus bank holidays.
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Remote-First: We're a remote-first business, rather than remote-only. So you can choose between working from home, or in our Holborn office.
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Socials: We encourage our employees to join our in-person team events and socials to build stronger connections within your team. If you live outside London, your travel expenses for these events are on us too!
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Tech: New joiners receive a company MacBook delivered in time for your first day.
Equality & Diversity
Peppy's mission is to help people in life's most challenging journeys. We pride ourselves on being an equal opportunity employer, committed to equality and diversity amongst both our employees and prospective applicants. We ensure that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process.
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