Senior Legal Counsel (Fintech)

Location: Hybrid role based at The Shard, London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a financial analysis platform serving more than 100 million users across 180+ countries with charting, market data, collaboration, and publishing products.

What you will do

• Act as the lead legal partner to Product and Engineering on features and launches, including user terms, consumer protection, financial promotions, user-generated content, and AI functionality.
• Lead negotiation and management of market data agreements with exchanges and vendors, covering licensing, redistribution, usage reporting, and audits.
• Own the global data privacy programme across GDPR and other frameworks, including privacy-by-design, DPIAs, data processing agreements, and cross-border transfers.
• Lead global intellectual property strategy across trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, software, and open source, including brand protection and enforcement.
• Negotiate complex technology, SaaS, cloud, vendor, and data processing agreements.
• Advise executives and partner with Product, Engineering, Security, Compliance, and Partnerships while building legal playbooks, policies, processes, and training.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of PQE with strong experience in data privacy, product counselling, intellectual property, and commercial technology.
• Experience supporting a global technology, fintech, or SaaS business, ideally as dedicated product or privacy counsel.
• Practical knowledge of data protection frameworks, including GDPR, UK GDPR, and other global regimes, with hands-on DPIA, cross-border transfer, and privacy-by-design experience.
• Experience advising product teams in a fast-moving, consumer-facing digital environment and providing clear guidance at speed.
• Expertise in IP strategy, protection, and enforcement covering software, trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, open source, and licensing.
• Experience negotiating data or content licensing agreements and complex technology, SaaS, cloud, and data processing agreements.
• Independence, sound judgement, ownership, stakeholder management, executive communication, and influencing skills.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-growth, product-driven environment while balancing legal risk with commercial and strategic objectives.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with stock exchanges, market data vendors, or financial information providers.
• Private practice and/or in-house experience in a financial services organisation.
• Experience interpreting complex regulations in foreign jurisdictions.
• Exposure to regulated environments and interaction with regulators.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible working hours and a hybrid work format.
• Well-equipped offices for focused and collaborative work.
• Global distributed team of 500+ professionals from 40+ countries.
• Learning, mentorship, and long-term career growth.
• Relocation support, private health insurance, performance-based bonuses, hirify.global Premium access, and regular team events and company-wide meetups.