🏷️ Role: Senior Legal Counsel
📝 Reports to: Legal Director
👫 Team: Legal
🌍 Location: Holborn, London
⭐ Hybrid Role: 3 days in the office a week
📝 Contract type: Permanent, full time
🚀 Who We Are:
As one of the fastest growing companies in the UK, we’ve redefined how a for-profit business makes a meaningful social impact. As the first to scale in the UK and reach profitability, Omaze has also raised over £80 million for charities and created close to 40 millionaires through its life changing house and prize draws. In addition to working with beloved charities such as British Heart Foundation, Comic Relief, Alzheimer’s Research UK, RSPCA, and more, Omaze is building a business and culture committed to growth and creating significant social impact on a global scale.
Head to Omaze.co.uk to learn more about our mission.
Why You’ll Love Working at Omaze:
Growth: Omaze is one of the fastest-growing companies in the world.
Impact: Join a team of world changers dedicated to creating a ripple effect of good.
Pioneering: Be part of something no one has done before.
Culture: We work hard, grow together, and spread joy along the way.
Who we’re looking for
The Legal team at Omaze is responsible for protecting the company’s interests by providing long-term strategic direction and day-to-day operational support.
Omaze is seeking an experienced and dynamic Senior Counsel Property & Prizes to join its UK legal function. The successful candidate will oversee all legal aspects of the property purchasing, prize acquisition, and winner support for the UK business.
What You’ll Do:
- Manage all legal aspects and support required for Omaze UK’s property purchasing, management, and delivery, as part of the company’s Million Pound House Draws.
- Manage all legal aspects and support required for acquisition and delivery of all other Omaze UK prizes.
- Provide strategic legal advice to the UK Property team on all aspects of property and prizes, and support needed for Omaze prize draw winners.
- Proactively identify, assess, and mitigate legal risks associated with Omaze UK’s property and prizing processes.
- Review property purchase agreements and property history reports to assess and advise on legal risks and solutions.
- Manage relationships and spend with external legal counsel, including budget management.
- Assist as needed with UK Legal team needs projects and priorities.
Our Ideal Candidate:
- A qualified lawyer in the UK with 5+ years of experience working in an internationally/nationally recognised law firm and/or in-house legal department.
- Significant experience negotiating and providing legal advice on complex property purchases.
- Law degree.
- Fluent in English required (fluency in another European language a perk).
- Excellent leadership and team management skills.
- Unmatched organisational skills and unyielding attention to detail.
- Strategic thinker with strong problem-solving and decision-making abilities.
- Extreme multi-tasker with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Willingness to learn other practice areas.
- Willingness to do the tedious, detailed-oriented legal work that keeps Omaze running and can independently exercise sound judgement with minimal supervision.
🙌 Our Benefits Package
- Generous stock options scheme
- Private medical and dental insurance
- 9% employer pension contributions, when you contribute at least 2%
- £1,200 learning and development budget each year to use on training courses, conferences and professional memberships
- Personal equipment budget to work from home
- Enhanced family leave policies
- Life assurance of 4x your salary