Life at Elvie – Meaningful work. Exceptional people
We develop extraordinary and smart technologies designed to improve the lives of women. It’s a fascinating and challenging area that requires us to solve the problems that no one else has ever tackled before.
Our first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected trainer that helps women strengthen their pelvic floor muscle via fun, five-minute workouts. It took the wellness industry by storm and is now available via the NHS Supply Chain. Our street cred is backed up by more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious Red Dot Award and an IDA Design Award.
Our second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent hands-free, wearable breast pump, has received international praise, including being listed as one of the Times 100 best inventions in 2019 and ‘wearable design of the year’ at the Dezeen Awards.
Elvie has received more than 30 awards, including being named one of 15 startups “To Watch” by The Sunday Times and ranked as the 6th fastest growing business in the UK by SyndicateRoom in 2019. Tania Boler has recently been rated as the 8th most influential person shaping british technology in 2019 by Business Insider and both products have been featured in the Oscar Nominee Gift Bags. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B, the largest ever fundraise in Femtech.
How do we like to work?
You will be surrounded by people who want to improve everything and everyone around them. People who are passionate about our mission. People who are driven to solve tough problems and constantly consider the best ways to improve the health and wellbeing of women.
We’re deeply proud of our values, which are intrinsic to the way we behave every day. We take them seriously because we want our culture to thrive:
- We’re fearless – We tackle taboos and break boundaries, requiring sensitivity and courage.
- We’re innovators – We are passionate, curious and data-driven. We are constantly learning how to work smarter, faster and better. Always embracing change and innovation.
- We’re in it together – Together, we are constantly learning, embracing change and seeking innovation, whilst having fun along the way. We stay authentic and embrace our differences.
About you
Elvie is looking for a self-motivated, dynamic lawyer to join us for 12 months on a fixed term contract as maternity cover for our Head of Legal. You should be excited by the challenges that come along with building a disruptive business and working at a high growth company. You pride yourself on being an independent and strategic player who can act decisively in situations requiring quick but thorough analysis and decision-making. You are detail-oriented, excel at communicating complex issues to business leaders succinctly and persuasively, and are able to prioritize and re-prioritize based on changing business needs.
You will be the first point of contact for all things Legal, responsible for supporting Elvie’s rapid expansion efforts around the world. This is a generalist role requiring a thorough understanding of Elvie’s multifaceted business and oversight over various legal workstreams, including sales and marketing (commercial contracts primarily), operations/supply chain, corporate, employment, privacy and data protection, and Intellectual Property. Our work is cutting edge, revolutionary and always evolving so it will be up to you to continuously assess and advise the teams on legal issues using a creative and pragmatic approach. You will report to the CFO/COO and have high interaction with all levels of the organisation.
The role can be based in London or Bristol. Flexible working requests will be openly considered. Ideal start date November 2020.
What you will do
- Act as In-House Legal Counsel, DPO and lead on IP strategy
- Commercial: Manage, draft, negotiate and execute all forms of company contracts and agreements (supply chain, retail/sales, research, marketing); Develop and implement standard templates, forms and processes
- Corporate: Lead on Company fundraising activities, Company secretarial support, Ownership of Company’s share option scheme, Support on larger employment matters
- IP: execute and project manage a company-wide IP strategy, including executing procedures for protecting patents, trademarks and industrial designs
- Expansion: support on new product launches, NPD and international business expansion
- Data: Act as interim DPO and advise on day to day data protection queries and projects. Working knowledge of data privacy issues (e.g. GDPR, Data Protection Act 2018 and E-Privacy Regulation) required
- Finance: own and manage legal and IP budgets
- Offer counsel to different teams across the company on mitigating legal risks and the legal liabilities associated with different deals, and provide ad-hoc training as required
- Handle other project-based work within the scope of the legal department responsibilities on as-needed basis
- Advise key stakeholders on legal priorities (corporate governance and other relevant regulations and legislation)
- Research and anticipate unique legal issues that could impact the company
- Liaise with and manage relationships with external counsel
- Provide training to the business teams as needed
Requirements
- 6+ years’ post qualification experience
- Worked in a strong in-house team in the consumer products or technology sector, ideally holding previous head of department roles in a rapid growth/scale up business. Experience with corporate transactions (fundraising), intellectual property, technology and operations/ supply chain, will be a strong plus.
- Have a LLB/LLM from a top accredited law school and exceptional academic credentials
- Qualified to practice law in the United Kingdom in good standing (additional qualifications in EU or US is a plus)
- Excellent technical legal skills, especially drafting and interpretative abilities.
- Highly commercial and constructive problem-solving abilities.
- Ability to work with autonomy, taking the initiative and proactively managing tasks.
- A well-rounded personality, able to build & maintain strong relationships with important business stakeholders.
- Most importantly, you must be keen to support the Elvie mission, and like the idea of working in a fast-paced start-up environment where you can share your future
Note: you must have the right to work in the UK to apply for this role
Benefits
Elvie is at the crest of a wave! Founded by women’s health expert Tania Boler and tech entrepreneur Alex Asseily, Elvie is a collection of bright and motivated team members working across the business to shape the emerging femtech industry.
We are passionate about creating disruptive products that address the challenges that matter most to women and dismantling the taboos around women’s bodies. Here, you can be part of a business and brand that has a positive and meaningful impact on the world, while learning a great deal and having fun.
What are some of the perks of working at Elvie?
We are looking after you. As well as the chance to develop products with real work impact and working with dedicated and passionate colleagues, our benefits have flexibility and wellbeing in mind with
- Great work environment – regular company socials, free daily snacks
- Flexible work environment built on trust and autonomy
- Enjoy employee / friends & family discounts on Elvie products
- Annual personal development allowance & unlimited access to our learning & development platform
- A tax-efficient group pension scheme with SmartPension
- A tax-efficient charity donation scheme
- Life Insurance with Yulife
- Medical, Dental & Optical with WPA
- Employee Assistance Program for you and your family
- Generous employee referral program
- Cycle Scheme & Tech Scheme
- YuLife Well-being app & access to SmartHealth app with unlimited GP appointments for you and your family, plus various well-being initiatives throughout the year
At Elvie, we believe in having diverse teams in which everyone can be their authentic self is key to our success. We encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply and we don’t discriminate based on race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, marital status, disability or age. We are a family-friendly employer with a culture based on trust, autonomy and flexibility, and are working on making our offices wheelchair friendly and breastfeeding friendly. We do our best to accommodate part-time requests and flexible requests as much as possible. We are also a member of UK Tech Talent Charter and proudly working in partnership with myGwork and Women’s tech hub.