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About us
Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.
Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.
At Wayve, big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.
At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.
Make Wayve the experience that defines your career!
The role
Wayve is looking for an experienced Senior Legal Counsel who is proficient in working with AI-related issues, specifically around commercial contracting, IP and data rights. Commercial experience within the automotive sector would be highly beneficial. You will be expected to run your own matters with minimal supervision, and we are looking for a conscientious self-starter who is used to managing competing objectives under pressure. Previous in-house experience is highly beneficial, but is not essential.
Key responsibilities:
This broad role will be supporting the Head of Legal with a wide range of legal matters, including:
- Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, including licensing, development, supplier, collaboration, and services agreements, with a particular focus on technology (both software and hardware)
- Advising on data protection compliance and other regulatory matters, including AV regulations
- Intellectual property rights management and protection, including trade marks, trade secrets and patents
- Advising on and managing corporate and investor relations matters
- Advising on university collaborations and related matters
- Advising on open source licensing
- Drafting and maintaining precedents and policies
- Managing external counsel
- Cross-functional collaboration and education of the business on legal and regulatory matters
About you
In order to set you up for success as a Legal Counsel at Wayve, we’re looking for the following skills and experience.
Essential
- 5+ PQE, qualified in England and Wales
- Strong experience in the tech sector
- Strong technical, drafting, legal research, and negotiation skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and an ability to explain complex matters in clear, accessible language
- Strong commercial acumen and judgement to effectively evaluate legal risk in the context of the company’s wider strategy
- Ability to work autonomously, take initiative and be proactive in addressing new challenges
- Ability and keenness to supervise and empower more junior members of the team
- Well-developed prioritisation skills and ability to deal with multiple projects and internal clients
- Willingness to get stuck in and work hard to help develop the legal team and support the business as it scales
- Ability to collaborate with colleagues across teams and jurisdictions
Desirable
- Experience in one or more of the following areas will be a massive plus:
- Contentious and non-contentious employment legal support, including claims, investigations, employment policy advice
- Corporate and M&A matters
This is a full-time role based in our office in Central London. At Wayve we want the best of all worlds so we operate a hybrid working policy that combines time together in our offices and workshops to fuel innovation, culture, relationships and learning, and time spent working from home.
Closing date for applications: 26th Jan 2025.
We understand that everyone has a unique set of skills and experiences and that not everyone will meet all of the requirements listed above. If you’re passionate about self-driving cars and think you have what it takes to make a positive impact on the world, we encourage you to apply.
For more information visit Careers at Wayve.
To learn more about what drives us, visit Values at Wayve
DISCLAIMER: We will not ask about marriage or pregnancy, care responsibilities or disabilities in any of our job adverts or interviews. However, we do look to capture information about care responsibilities, and disabilities among other diversity information as part of an optional DEI Monitoring form to help us identify areas of improvement in our hiring process and ensure that the process is inclusive and non-discriminatory.
Wayve London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
