Head of Legal

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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OnHires

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2020

🎯 Recruiter

👥 HR Tech

🤝 B2B

Recruitment • HR Tech • B2B

OnHires is a global IT recruitment and staffing partner that sources, vets, and places technical and creative talent for fast-growing companies. They provide services including vetted developers, sourcing, executive search, talent mapping, RPO, HR consulting, and flexible hiring models (subscription, pay-per-hire, hourly), with a focus on fast, high-quality hires and scalable talent pipelines.

📋 Description

• Own the company’s UK regulatory build and act as the most senior legal voice on UK matters • Report directly to the CEO • Lead a first-wave FCA cryptoasset authorisation end to end • Own a UK e-money application and sequence it with the cryptoasset application • Conduct perimeter analysis of B2C and B2B activities • Develop application strategy, draft materials, contribute to the regulatory business plan, handle RFIs and manage dialogue through decision • Act as senior in-house legal counterpart to the FCA • Advise on the cryptoasset financial promotions regime, Consumer Duty, UK Travel Rule, safeguarding and prudential requirements • Lead post-authorisation readiness, including governance, senior manager and certification considerations, reporting and disclosures • Direct and quality-control UK external counsel and manage legal spend • Lead legal work for additional licence applications in other jurisdictions • Advise where UK and EU regulatory perimeters meet • Draft and negotiate English-law B2B agreements, including MSAs, API and white-label terms, referral and agent agreements, and banking, payment and card scheme agreements • Review consumer terms, financial promotions and UK-specific disclosures • Advise on UK employment law and contractor arrangements in partnership with HR • Work closely with the EU legal function and leadership team based outside the UK

🎯 Requirements

• Qualified solicitor or barrister in England & Wales • Typically 8+ years PQE • Hands-on UK financial services regulatory experience • At least one FCA authorisation or variation of permission personally owned or materially led, from perimeter analysis to decision • Direct personal interaction with the FCA, including correspondence, meetings and representation • Crypto or digital-asset legal experience at licensed or established firms • Cryptoasset, e-money or payments perimeter experience • Ability to draft and negotiate English-law B2B fintech agreements independently • Track record of owning regulatory outcomes • Ability to take clear positions under pressure and translate legal risk into business options • Comfort operating remotely as a senior legal professional without a legal support structure • Practical use of AI tools in legal drafting, research or review • Fluent legal English to regulator-facing standard • Existing right to work in the UK • Ability to attend regulator meetings in London as required • Team management experience is not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance bonus linked to UK authorisation milestones • Remote setup in the UK • Employment or B2B contract option • Fast, transparent hiring process, typically completed within four weeks