Head of Legal in Manchester

Street Group is a fast-moving B2B SaaS business, grown in Manchester but on a UK-wide mission to make moving house as easy as buying a car. We’ve recently raised strategic growth investment and are scaling fast toward an ambitious growth plan.

To support this growth, we're moving from fractional legal support to our first full-time in-house lawyer. As we grow and our product and client base expand, we need someone who can own the legal function day to day. As this is our first full-time legal hire, we're looking for a self-starter who is passionate about the role and who will build, own and manage our internal legal function, creating value and protecting the business from risk. You’ll work autonomously and efficiently, leading on legal matters and bringing in external counsel where required, and you’ll report directly to our CFO.

How You'll Make a Difference

• Take ownership of the legal function, including a smooth handover from the current fractional counsel.
• Lead on B2B SaaS contracting: draft, negotiate and manage customer, partner and supplier agreements, and maintain contract templates and playbooks.
• Update terms and conditions as new product features are released, working closely with product, sales and commercial colleagues.
• Act as product counsel on AI-enabled features: advise product and engineering on the legal and regulatory implications of AI in Street Group’s products (including data use and training, IP and output ownership, accuracy and liability, and transparency), and ensure customer terms, data terms and product documentation reflect them.
• Advise on data protection, privacy and information security, including customer-facing data terms and requirements.
• Work with compliance and governance colleagues to establish and maintain corporate governance, AI governance and policy, and compliance frameworks.
• Identify and adopt AI tools and legal technology within the function to improve speed, consistency and capacity.
• Manage relationships with external law firms, including specialist advisers retained for equity and other matters, to ensure cost-effective use of external spend.
• Support M&A and other strategic transactions, including legal due diligence and post-acquisition integration.
• Identify and manage legal risks ahead of any future diligence or exit process.
• Advise the executive team and, as required, the Board on legal, regulatory and risk matters.
• Keep up to date with legislative and regulatory change affecting the business.

Who We're Looking For

• You’re qualified to practise in England and Wales, with 8+ years’ PQE gained in a law firm, in-house, or both.
• You have strong experience drafting and negotiating B2B SaaS agreements, ideally with institutional or regulated customers.
• You’re commercially focused: you act as a partner to sales, product and senior leadership and balance legal risk with commercial objectives.
• You have a sound understanding of data protection law and practical exposure to information security and technology risk.
• You have up-to-date knowledge of AI regulation and market practice as it affects SaaS products, with experience of advising on, or contracting around, AI features and of how customers and regulators are approaching them.
• You take a forward-thinking approach to AI and legal technology, with a track record of applying it to legal work.
• You’ve built or scaled a legal function, including templates, processes and external counsel management.
• You’re able to work autonomously as the sole in-house lawyer, with the judgement to know when to elevate or bring in specialists.
• You have excellent negotiation, communication and problem-solving skills, and you turn complex legal issues into practical, business-oriented advice.
• You manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.

Bonus points if…

• You’ve worked in an FCA-regulated business.
• You’ve worked in a private equity-backed business.
• You have M&A experience, including due diligence and post-deal integration.
• You’ve had exposure to governance, company secretarial and ESG matters.

Why Join Us?

• A role with genuine commercial impact - you won’t be a support function here.
• Direct access to the Co-Founders and leadership team.
• Hybrid working from our Manchester office, with the option to WFH 3 days a week.
• Guilt-Free R&R - £1000 towards a holiday after your first year with the team (we'll even cover the tax!).
• Joining a culture that supports your development and encourages growth.
• £500 yearly L&D budget for your career development.
• Your birthday on us - we pay, you stay away.
• ‘Give something back’ - 2 paid days volunteering on us.
• Enhanced maternity, paternity & adoption pay.
• Mental health & well-being support via Health Assured.
• Regular well-being initiatives.
• Flexible working hours.
• Public transport season ticket loans.
• Paid menopause leave.
• Holiday buying scheme.
• Be a part of something bigger - everyone in our team is passionate about improving the entire property industry!
• A chance to work on cutting-edge technology.
• Comfortable, relaxed office space - office dogs welcome!

Salary: £120k - £150k dependent on experience. However, sometimes the perfect person is far more or less experienced than we anticipated. In these situations, planned ranges go out the window. If you think that might be the case, please apply and just let us know.

We care deeply about helping the tech industry become a more inclusive and diverse place and we work hard to lead by example. We are committed to Equal Employment Opportunity through attracting and retaining a complementary team of employees and building an inclusive environment for all. Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK and be able to perform the work specified.

Interview Process

3 stages = Video call with our Head of People > Technical Interview > Values interview. We want to make our interviews as inclusive as possible, so if you need any adjustments made, or if there's anything you think we should be aware of during the interview process, please do let us know.

A note on using AI in your job application

As a fast-moving and rapidly evolving tech company, we embrace the advantages of AI and encourage its use throughout our application process. However, our goal is to get to know and hire the authentic you - your skills, experience, and values. We don’t want to hire an AI-generated version of you. We consider AI to be a valuable tool, not something that should shadow you as an individual.

How We Use AI In The Hiring Process

Candidate experience is really important to us, and our Talent team use AI notetakers during interviews so they can focus purely on their conversation with you. All hiring decisions are made by humans - not AI. Let us know if you have any questions!