🐦 About Birdie
Birdie is the leading home healthcare technology platform that aims to radically transform the lives of older adults. Its all-in-one solution supports around 4.8 million (and growing) care visits every month, equipping care providers with the tools they need to deliver better quality care and improve efficiency across most day-to-day operations. This enables us to collect over 1.5 billion data points on care recipient wellbeing each year, making Birdie the holder of the largest structured community healthcare dataset in Europe.
Birdie was founded in 2017, a B-Corp certified company that leverages technology to reimagine home care. With a total raise to date of $55M, we secured our Series B funding in 2022 led by Sofina, Omers, and Index Ventures, fuelling our mission to transform care.
Recognised for its innovation and impact, we have received numerous accolades, including ranking 6th in the 2023 Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 and 21st in Deloitte's EMEA Technology Fast 500 in 2024. We joined Tech Nation's prestigious Future Fifty 2024 cohort and was featured in the Sifted 100 list of fastest-growing UK & Ireland startups in 2024. Furthermore, Birdie was named an NHS England Assured Supplier for Digital Social Care Records in 2023 and won the Innovative Solutions in Home Care Award at the 2024 Leaders in Care Awards.
Check out our principles and join us at Birdie as we continue to push the boundaries of what's possible in home healthcare. Together, we will continue to make a meaningful difference in the lives of millions.
⚡️ Your mission
As General Counsel, you will play a pivotal role at Birdie. You will be Birdie’s sole in-house legal advisor, overseeing Legal, Risk, Compliance and Data Protection. You will have the opportunity to make a real impact, providing strategic, practical legal advice on a wide range of issues across all areas of the business. You will be a business partner to all stakeholders at Birdie, ensuring we operate within the law and helping us to deliver great outcomes for our partners.
🦸♀️ How you will contribute
You will be part of the Leadership Team at Birdie, working closely with Exco and responsible for Legal, Compliance, Risk and Data Protection at Birdie. The Data Protection Officer (DPO) will report directly to you. Your responsibilities will include:
Strategy
Legal Strategy: Develop and implement our legal strategy and roadmap aligned to our company objectives. Provide expert and strategic legal advice to the business. Serve as a key member of the Leadership team.
Intellectual Property Strategy: Continue to partner with our external IP specialists to implement and oversee IP protection strategies, trademark filings and enforcement actions (where applicable).
Compliance & Risk
Regulatory Compliance: Ensure compliance with healthcare and data protection legislation. Monitor legislative and regulatory developments impacting Birdie and proactively advise the business on potential impacts. Develop, implement and maintain internal governance and compliance programs and policies.
Risk Management: Overall responsibility for Birdie’s risk governance processes, risk register and risk committee, together with our DPO, supporting and guiding the team with risk assessments, identifying risks and providing guidance on mitigation strategies and reporting to the Board.
Data Protection: Oversee data protection compliance at Birdie, led by our DPO. DPO ensures we maintain our NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit standard and continue to meet what is required of us as a Digital Social Care Record Assured Supplier. DPO also ensures that policies and procedures, ROPA and DPIAs are completed and up to date as well as delivers regular data protection trainings for the Birdie team.
Corporate Governance: Manage corporate governance matters including board minutes, shareholder and investor approvals and manage other corporate records. Oversee our company secretarial service and the preparation and filing of corporate documents, maintenance of our Register of Members and cap table.
Finance & Corporate Development: Support with any fundraising and debt activities and investor relations. Lead the legal aspects of M&A activities, where applicable.
Option Scheme: Manage our employee share option scheme including overseeing board and investor approvals, new option grants for new joiners and promotions, the exercise process for leavers and managing and keeping internal guidance updated. Work closely with People team on this.
Commercial
Contracts: Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements. Support across all teams, partnerships and initiatives through practical, business-minded and fast paced contract review and negotiation. Manage vendor and partnership agreements and implement processes where necessary.
Customer Terms: Draft, update and negotiate our customer facing terms and conditions and related materials, partnering closely with the Commercial and RevOps teams.
People
Employment: Close partnership with the People team, advising on all employment law matters, supporting the People team in developing, maintaining and updating policies and procedures and managing any contentious Employment matters.
Processes & Ops
Legal Budget and External Lawyers: Plan ahead and manage the legal budget for the year. Partner closely with external advisors and manage those relationships and costs, making the most effective use of budget and available resources.
Processes and Partnership: Drive constant improvements in how the Legal team delivers commercial legal advice and partnership to the business in the most efficient, effective way.
Legal Tech & AI: Continue to lead the implementation and optimisation of Legal teach including AI contract review to enhance the Legal team’s efficiency and scalability.
🤩 We’d love to hear from you if
You are an experienced legal leader with around 7-11 years PQE with some of that time spent in a fast paced start-up/ scale-up environment in-house either as General Counsel, Sole Counsel or in another senior Legal role.
You are able to think strategically and provide practical legal advice that aligns with business objectives. You have a pragmatic approach to advice, with the ability to understand our business and apply an appropriate commercial lens to reviews.
You are excellent at executing fast, multi-tasking and balancing competing priorities; you can push several streams at the same time, source information from various parts of the business and deliver quickly for high quality output.
You can influence others in your communication, simplify legal jargon and collaborate easily with all stakeholders to seek input and put forward your recommendations.
🙌 What are the benefits?
People are our core strength. We are social entrepreneurs, boasting an outstanding culture with strong values (B-Corp certified). We offer intentional benefits and invest in our team's growth, satisfaction and ability to thrive:
✨ Compensation
Our salary packages are competitive, the role is £120k - £150k. We also grant stock options to any permanent employee at the end of the probation period.
🏝 Location
This role will need to be based in the UK with presence in our London office twice per week. We organise regular in-person events and online socials to make sure you can meet up with peers.
Birdie does not currently support any visa applications and therefore we do require permanent right to work in the UK.
🤗 Flexibility
We believe in flexible ways of working and we're open to part time (a four-day week) if it works better for you and the role.
🌱 L&D budget
Learning an growing is a fundamental part of Birdie life. You'll have an annual personal development budget to put towards books, courses, trainings and conferences; continuous coaching within the team and with external experts.
🏡 Work From Home budget
Making your workspace comfortable is important to us, you’ll have access to a WFH equipment budget to ensure you have what you need.
🌴 Paid time off
We offer 33 days of holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) and close between Christmas and New Years outside of this. We also support you in celebrating the big moments, all Birdies get an extra “Birthday” day off and can choose to take it at any point in the year.
🫶🏻 Birdie giving days
Birdie is a B-corp and we care deeply about ethical and social impact. Birdie will pay you for 2 days of volunteering (to a cause you’re passionate about) each year.
🌍 Sabbaticals
We want Birdies to stick around for a while! After 4 years you can choose to take a sabbatical of up to 3 months.
👩⚕️ Private health insurance & Gym and wellbeing discounts
Comprehensive health insurance with AXA that covers many physical and mental health costs. Gym discounts and numerous other wellbeing perks via Happl.
🚲 Cycle to work scheme
Birdie will buy a bike up-front and you can salary sacrifice to pay-off over the next 12-36 months
👼🏽 Parental Leave
Highly favourable parental leave policy; once you have spent twelve consecutive months on our payroll, primary caregivers are entitled to 26 weeks of parental leave at 100% of your usual salary and secondary caregivers are entitled to 12 weeks of parental leave, at 100% of your usual salary.
🐣 Fertility Leave
Birdie recognises the emotional and physical challenges of fertility treatment and investigations, and supports all Birdies by offering 5 additional paid days of leave.
👵🏻 Employer pension contribution
Birdie contributes 4% of your salary to your pension when you contribute 5% (UK Birdies)
⛷ Frequent company socials, trips and meals
We organise many socials, quarterly retreats and annual company-wide retreats
🤗 Exceptional culture
We see ourselves as social entrepreneurs shaping a new kind of organisation: caring, responsible yet fostering excellence. Read The Birdie Way to learn more.
🌈 Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
At Birdie, we're committed to creating an environment that promotes diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
It's essential to us that you’re able to bring your authentic self to work every single day, no matter your age, ethnicity, religion, citizenship, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, caring responsibilities, neurodiversity, or otherwise and all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to these aspects.
If you have any questions regarding the interview process, or if you need any reasonable adjustments to be made, please don’t hesitate to contact us.