Website:
scriptassist.co.uk
Job details:
India · Remote · Full-time
Working hours: UK business hours
Build and own the legal and commercial function of a high-growth UK healthcare SaaS company
Script Assist is looking for an exceptional Legal & Commercial Counsel to work directly with the CEO and increasingly take ownership of the company’s legal, contracting and privacy function.
This is not a traditional back-office legal role.
We are looking for an in-house lawyer who is commercially sharp, exceptionally organised and capable of taking fast-moving, sometimes messy information and turning it into clear decisions, actions and completed work.
You will be expected to own matters through to completion, not simply provide legal advice and hand them back to the business.
For the right person, this is a significant career opportunity with the potential to grow into leadership of the legal function as Script Assist scales.
About Script Assist
Script Assist is building the operating system for next-generation private healthcare in the UK.
Our software already supports tens of thousands of medical cannabis prescriptions each month through clinics, pharmacies and healthcare operators across the UK.
We are expanding into additional private healthcare markets including:
- ADHD
- weight management
- longevity
- specialist private medicine
- other complex healthcare categories
This is not generic SaaS.
We operate in regulated healthcare, where contracts, privacy, data protection, IP, customer commitments, clinical workflows and commercial precision matter.
The opportunity
You will work directly with the CEO and senior management team across:
- SaaS and technology contracts
- customer negotiations and redlines
- platform agreements and order forms
- commercial terms and pricing schedules
- supplier and partner agreements
- NDAs
- data processing agreements
- UK GDPR and privacy matters
- security and privacy questionnaires
- contract and legal operations
- external UK counsel
- customer and supplier disputes
- company policies and governance
- commercial/legal risk analysis
Over time, we also expect the role to become increasingly important in privacy and data protection.
We intend to support the successful candidate in developing deeper UK data-protection expertise, with the potential to become Script Assist’s internal privacy lead and, subject to experience and readiness, ultimately assume formal Data Protection Officer responsibility.
What the role is really about
We need someone who can take ownership.
If a customer sends a contract redline, you should be able to:
- understand what has changed;
- identify what matters;
- obtain any necessary input from the business;
- recommend a commercial/legal position;
- negotiate or coordinate the response;
- keep track of outstanding points;
- get the agreement completed; and
- ensure any commitments made are captured and followed through.
The same principle applies across the role.
We want someone who makes sure:
no contract, obligation, deadline, decision, risk or action gets lost.
What you will do
You will support and increasingly own work including:
Commercial contracts
- Draft, review and negotiate SaaS and technology agreements
- Review customer redlines and recommend positions
- Prepare and manage platform agreement packs
- Draft and review order forms, pricing schedules and commercial terms
- Review supplier, partner and service agreements
- Draft and negotiate NDAs
- Maintain clear records of agreed contractual positions and customer commitments
Privacy and data protection
- Draft and review DPAs
- Support UK GDPR compliance
- Help maintain privacy documentation and policies
- Support and increasingly lead DPIAs
- Coordinate responses to data-subject requests and privacy complaints
- Support data-breach and incident processes
- Review international data-transfer arrangements
- Coordinate customer privacy and security questionnaires
- Help build and maintain Script Assist’s privacy governance programme
Legal operations
- Maintain a reliable contract repository
- Track renewals, obligations, actions and deadlines
- Maintain legal and commercial trackers
- Develop templates, playbooks and repeatable processes
- Coordinate signatures and contract completion
- Prepare clear briefing notes for the CEO and management team
- Manage and coordinate work sent to external UK lawyers
- Ensure matters are followed through without needing to be chased
Commercial support
You will also work closely with the CEO on significant customer and commercial matters.
You should be able to understand:
- what a customer is trying to achieve;
- what Script Assist has commercially agreed;
- where contractual risk actually matters;
- what is negotiable;
- what requires escalation; and
- how to get a deal completed without creating unnecessary legal friction.
What we are looking for
We are looking for someone who is already capable of operating as an effective in-house commercial lawyer.
You will normally have approximately 4–8 years of post-qualification legal experience, although we will consider exceptional candidates outside that range.
Essential
You should have:
- qualification to practise law in India;
- meaningful in-house legal experience;
- experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts;
- experience with software, SaaS, technology or another comparable B2B business;
- direct experience dealing with customer contracts and commercial negotiations;
- excellent spoken and written English;
- excellent attention to detail;
- exceptional organisation and follow-through;
- strong commercial judgement;
- confidence communicating with senior stakeholders;
- comfort working directly with a founder/CEO;
- willingness to work UK business hours; and
- the ability to work independently in a fast-moving environment.
Particularly valuable
Experience in any of the following would be useful:
- SaaS agreements
- software licensing
- technology contracts
- DPAs
- GDPR / UK GDPR
- privacy
- healthcare or another regulated industry
- contract lifecycle management
- legal operations
- supplier agreements
- IP clauses
- security questionnaires
- external-counsel management
- building legal processes or templates
You do not need to arrive as an experienced DPO.
We care more about strong legal fundamentals, judgement, precision and the ability to learn.
The type of person who will thrive here
This role will suit somebody who is:
- commercially minded;
- highly precise;
- intellectually curious;
- ambitious;
- low ego;
- comfortable taking responsibility;
- naturally organised;
- proactive rather than reactive;
- capable of operating with limited supervision; and
- genuinely motivated by building something rather than simply servicing an established legal function.
One capability matters particularly strongly:
You must be able to absorb information accurately.
You will often work directly with the CEO and senior team on multiple fast-moving matters.
You need to be able to:
- distinguish facts from assumptions;
- retain important qualifications and dependencies;
- capture decisions accurately;
- turn conversations into clear actions;
- spot what has been missed;
- follow written instructions precisely; and
- reliably close actions without needing repeated reminders.
If you need every task to arrive perfectly structured before you can execute it, this probably will not be the right environment.
If you enjoy creating order from complexity, it may be.
AI-first working
We expect an AI-first approach to legal and commercial work.
You should be comfortable using modern AI tools to improve:
- research;
- drafting;
- contract review;
- summarisation;
- issue identification;
- legal operations;
- internal knowledge management; and
- workflow automation.
We are interested in people who use technology to improve the quality and speed of their work while remaining personally accountable for accuracy.
Why join?
This is an opportunity to become much more than another lawyer within a large legal department.
You will work directly with the CEO, gain unusually broad exposure to a scaling UK technology company and have the opportunity to build systems and processes rather than inherit them.
For someone exceptional, the role can evolve significantly as the company grows, potentially including:
- ownership of the legal function;
- formal DPO responsibility;
- management of future legal team members; and
- progression towards Head of Legal & Commercial or another senior leadership position.
The role starts hands-on.
The trajectory can be much bigger.
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