Senior Compliance Counsel

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London, Greater London, England
Senior level
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The Role
The role of Senior Compliance Counsel at Flo involves overseeing compliance across various functions, partnering with teams to integrate compliance into operations, advancing product compliance, corporate governance, and ESG projects, while shaping compliance awareness and leading risk mitigation efforts especially in innovative projects involving AI.
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We’re very proud of our achievements:

In July, we secured a $200M investment led by General Atlantic to help revolutionise women’s health, and became the first purely digital consumer women’s health app to achieve unicorn status! 🦄

We’ve had 380M+ downloads, have almost 70M monthly users, are #1 by installs in the iOS Health category, hit 4.9 stars on the App Store (3M+ reviews), are backed by 9 VCs, had a 40% revenue increase last year, and topped a valuation of $1B.

We’re a growing, ambitious HealthTech business building the essential digital health partner of tomorrow to empower women, girls, and people who menstruate with the knowledge and support they need to stay well and live better.

Our cycle, ovulation and pregnancy tracking, educational content and anonymised community platform have been trusted for years by millions to help them feel more in control of their health every day.

Now, we’re harnessing the power of data analytics and AI to build a smarter future, one where we all know our bodies better, with an aim to become the essential health partner to women worldwide.

The Job

Legal and Compliance are partners across the whole business here at Flo. They watch over everything: Flo’s privacy programme, compliance with regulatory obligations, contract management, IP enforcement… you name it. 

The team’s divided into three groups - Privacy & Data Protection, Regulatory & Compliance, and Legal Services, each managing its own area.

This senior position in our compliance function offers a unique opportunity to shape compliance awareness and lead risk mitigation efforts for Flo’s most innovative projects, including exciting advances utilising AI. 

Sitting alongside our Privacy and Legal Services teams, this role covers all compliance outside of Privacy, and performs an important  cross-functional role, partnering with product, security, science, marketing, medical, and other teams to integrate compliance into the core of Flo’s operations. 

As part of a team of four, and reporting to the Head of Compliance you’ll gain deep insights into our product and help build trust through best-in-class compliance practices. This is a high-impact role, instrumental in advancing Flo’s product compliance, corporate governance, and ESG projects.

Your Experience

Must have:

  • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Law.
  • Qualified lawyer with strong relevant work experience (usually 5 years’ PQE). 
  • Proven track of work with tech companies, or in-house with a software product focussed organisation.
  • Knowledge of consumer regulations in the EU and in the USA. 
  • Proven to be proactive, results-oriented, and well-organised.
  • Strong English language communication skills, both written and oral (C1+ CEFR).
  • Demonstrated ability to learn quickly and manage multiple projects, including strong time management skills to manage multiple competing priorities.
  • Proven experience working flexibly to meet changing priorities.
  • Background showing an ability to challenge and influence others.

Nice to have:

  • Previous experience in healthcare preferred, especially in medical devices or wellness applications.
  • Knowledge of FTC/ASA rules for marketing and advertising compliance. 
  • Experience with AI governance.  
  • Knowledge of Apple Store and Google Play guidelines.
  • Experience working with subscription-based B2C products. 
  • Knowledge of Jira and Confluence. 
  • Knowledge of agile methodologies.

What you'll be doing

You'll be responsible to:

  • Provide compliance advice to the business (e.g., product teams, marketing, and content creators) regarding the rules, regulations, and internal policies applicable to the company.
  • Support the company’s AI and health initiatives, such as symptom checker and chatbot features. 
  • Support the company’s commercial objectives, such as pricing and onboarding experiments, and payments and checkouts. 
  • Assist in the development and maintenance of processes and procedures, including regular compliance reporting and risk assessment.
  • Proactively partner with internal stakeholders to ensure that compliance principles are embedded into the organization.
  • Review new features, such as a wide range of articles, marketing emails,  and other pieces of content, identifying compliance risks and proposing improvements.
  • Support the development of corporate governance initiatives such as our compliance training program and ESG strategy. Draft or take part in drafting internal policies and procedures.

You'll be targeted on:

  • Help the team deliver more than 80% of our quarterly OKRs;
  • Help improve awareness of our compliance program throughout the organization. 
  • Help the team meet our SLAs, such as delivering certain marketing reviews within 24 hours. 

#LI-JC1 #LI-Hybrid 

Ranges may vary depending on your skills, competencies and experience.

Reward

People perform better when they’re happy, paid well, looked after and supported. 

On top of competitive salaries, Flo's employees have access to:

  • A flexible working environment with the opportunity to come into the office and work from home
  • Company equity grants through Flo’s Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP)
  • Paid holiday and sick leave 
  • Fully paid female health and sick leave, in addition to holiday and regular sick leave
  • Workations - an opportunity to work abroad for two months a year
  • Six months paid maternity leave, and one months paid paternity leave (subject to qualifying conditions) inclusive of same-sex and adoptive parents
  • Career growth, progression, and learning development resources
  • Annual salary reviews
  • Unlimited free premium Flo subscriptions
  • A whole host of other benefits (health/pension/social schemes)


Our Culture

We’re problem solvers, we’re adaptable, we’re empathy driven and results led. 

People here like working in a fast-paced, multi-national, multi-cultural and ever changing environment. Everyone has an impact on a powerful mission, and is happy to roll their sleeves up to ideate solutions and put them in place. Being part of a  growing business means that sometimes it's not easy and we work hard, but our mission is always at the forefront of what we do. 

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

The strength of our workforce is in the diverse backgrounds of our employees, and Flo is committed to applying its equal opportunities policy at all stages of recruitment and selection. This means recruitment and selection of talent into Flo Health companies is only based on individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. Shortlisting, interviewing, and selection will always be carried out without regard to gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, color, race, nationality, ethnic or national origins, religion or beliefs, ancestry, age, veteran status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, pregnancy or maternity status, trade union membership, or any other protected characteristics.

By applying for the above role, you confirm that you have reviewed our privacy notice for job applicants: https://flo.health/privacy-policy-for-job-applicants 

The Company
London
492 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Flo is the essential female health partner. We are building a better future for female health by helping women harness the power of their body signals.
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Flo in numbers:
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#1 period tracker in the USA by active audience
#1 most downloaded female health app worldwide
47 million monthly active users
240 million installs
28M women got pregnant while using Flo (the number indicates users who logged pregnancy in app during 2015-2022)

Flo prioritizes safety and keeps a sharp focus on being the most trusted digital source for women's health information.

Flo intensively uses Data Science and AI to deliver the most personalized content and services available.

Flo is currently available in 22 languages on iOS and Android. 55% of users are located in the US and Europe.

We are committed to putting privacy of our users first. Our users trust our technology to keep their sensitive information private and we are responsible for providing a safe and secure platform for them to use. We regularly carry out privacy assessments to monitor risks including data protection impact assessments and third-party risk assessments. In March 2022 Flo completed an external, independent privacy audit which confirmed there are no gaps or weaknesses in our privacy practices.

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