Junior Legal Counsel

<h2>About Lendable</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">Lendable is on a mission to build the world's best technology to help people get credit and save money.<strong> </strong>We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">One of the UK’s most exciting unicorns with a team of over 800 people</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Among the<strong> fastest-growing tech</strong> companies in the UK</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Profitable since <strong>2017</strong></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em">Backed by top investors including <strong>Balderton Capital </strong>and<strong> Goldman Sachs</strong></p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Loved by customers</strong> with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/lendable.co.uk"><u>Trustpilot</u></a>)</p></li></ul><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">So far, we’ve rebuilt the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch:<strong> loans, credit cards and car finance</strong>. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks <strong>with dated systems and painful processes.</strong></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>Join us if you want to</h2><ol style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Take ownership: </strong>you are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Work in small teams of exceptional people:</strong> Lendies are relentlessly resourceful. We challenge the status quo to solve problems and find smarter solutions</p></li><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Build the best technology in-house</strong>: we use new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting</p></li></ol><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>About the role</h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">You'll join a <strong>small but ambitious Legal team with a broad remit</strong>, working with every part of the business — from Product and Engineering to Credit Risk, Marketing and People. Lendable is an FCA-regulated lender operating in the UK, US and Mexico, so you'll get early exposure to regulated products and new markets. As Lendable grows, this role is focused on <strong>commercial contracts, product and corporate work</strong>. You'll own matters end to end, explain legal issues clearly to non-lawyers, and weigh the legal position against what the business is trying to achieve.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2>What you'll be doing</h2><ul style="min-height:1.5em"><li><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Draft, review and negotiate </strong>a wide range of commer