Atticus

Title: Head of Legal Location: Australia - Remote Department: Operations Job Description: Australia - Remote, Australia · Permanent · Remote Job description Atticus is seeking its first Head of Legal to build, own, and scale the legal function across our global operations. This is a critical leadership role for an ambitious problem-solver who perceives legal as a strategic enabler of commercial success You will be instrumental in navigating the complex legal landscape of a fast-growing, cross-jurisdictional B2B SaaS company, particularly one operating in the legal and regulated industries space. About us: We're an Australian HQ’d scale-up with offices in London and Melbourne. Our company makes leading document verification technology for law firms, listed companies, and funds. The software helps customers verify critical documents before market disclosure, saving pain in high-pressure, high-stakes work. We’re a growing, global company. We’re trusted by 90% of Australian corporate law firms, over 50% of the UK Top 30 law firms, over 50% of the ASX50 and 40% of the ASX100. We have serious traction, with significant untapped potential. You can learn more about us at atticus.tech About the role: You will be a key commercial partner to the leadership team, owning all legal matters across four core pillars: 1. Commercial & contracting - Lead customer and supplier contract negotiation, drafting, and management globally. - Be the subject matter expert for all IT/technology contracting, licensing, and procurement. - Structure and execute commercial agreements that accelerate sales and partnership objectives. - Engage, instruct and manage outside counsel. 2. Corporate & governance - Manage group entity governance, formation, and compliance (entity management). - Oversee the company's intellectual property (IP) strategy, registration, and enforcement. - Manage global insurance policies and claims. 3. Employment & people - Draft and manage employment contracts and ensure HR compliance across jurisdictions. - Advise on employment law matters and company policies. - Administer and manage the employee share option plan (ESOP) and Enterprise Management Incentive (EMI) scheme. 4. Data, privacy & AI regulation - Ensure compliance with global data protection and privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR). - Proactively advise on the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape for Artificial Intelligence (AI regulation) as it relates to our product development and deployment. About you: You are a commercially focused and pragmatic lawyer with substantial experience, ideally in a fast-growth technology or SaaS environment. Essential Qualities: - Problem solving: You are comfortable working in ambiguity and finding creative, commercially viable solutions to complex legal and business challenges, not simply applying "black letter" law. - Tech fluency: You are adept at building a modern, tech-enabled legal function. You understand how tools like contract lifecycle management, workflow automation, and AI-assisted review can scale legal support efficiently, and you're comfortable selecting and implementing the right systems. - Strategic enablement: You fundamentally perceive your role as enabling business growth and speed, viewing risk as something to be managed and mitigated, not something to be avoided at all costs. - Commercial acumen: You possess a strong commercial focus, understanding the company's business model, sales drivers, and growth objectives. - Cross-jurisdictional experience: You ideally have demonstrable experience working across multiple legal jurisdictions (e.g., UK, Australia, US), managing foreign counsel where necessary. - Experience: 7+ years of relevant legal experience, with time spent in-house, ideally at a B2B SaaS scale-up. - Qualification: AU qualified solicitor/barrister Benefits - Salary of $220,000 + depending on capability and experience - 100% remote-friendly from within Australia (come to the office, work from home or a bit of both—it’s up to you) - Flexible work hours (we value output over hours) - $2,000 home office setup budget - Five weeks leave each year (and never work on your birthday) - 16 weeks paid parental leave - Generous professional development program

• Own core people operations areas: onboarding, offboarding, policy / leave administration, benefits, payroll, and compliance • Manage benefits end-to-end — employee support, leave management, lead open enrollment, manage vendor relationships, and benchmarking to keep our offerings competitive. • Design and execute our HRIS operations so that personnel information is always updated; manage our current system, evaluate options, and own HRIS migration when the time comes. • Own our PEO relationship, managing the day-to-day relationship and ensuring smooth payroll and compliance across all states. • Manage people reporting and data (headcount, attrition and more) to help our team and stakeholders make good decisions. • Evolve our people policies to be current, accessible and useful, and be a resource for managers navigating benefits, people policy, leave and HR system questions • Hold a high bar for operational excellence — employees get answers quickly, processes work, and information is clear and accessible.

• Build and maintain recruiting reporting and dashboards, tracking key metrics like time-to-fill, pipeline conversion, and interviewer load to surface insights for the recruiting team and hiring managers • Serve as the day-to-day administrator of our ATS (Ashby), maintaining data integrity, building and refining workflows, and ensuring the team is getting the most out of the tooling • Co-own end-to-end interview coordination with recruiters, including scheduling, candidate communications, and interviewer prep, ensuring a consistently smooth and responsive candidate experience • Identify and drive process improvements across the recruiting lifecycle • Support offer administration and pre-boarding handoffs, coordinating closely with People Ops to ensure a seamless transition from candidate to new hire • Own relationships with external vendors and platforms, managing renewals, evaluating new tools, and ensuring the team is getting ROI on its recruiting tech stack • Partner with recruiters and hiring managers to keep roles current and well-organized in the ATS, flagging process gaps and proactively problem-solving before small issues become bottlenecks

• Design and run a test-and-learn pipeline to crack client acquisition for Injury. • Vibe code a new web intake flow for Injury clients from scratch. • Scope and sequence the verticals that come after Injury.

Role Description Atticus is organized around a set of cross-functional go-to-market teams, each owning the full P&L for one of our legal verticals. These teams are the center of the business: they set strategic direction, make the calls that determine how many people we serve and how fast we grow, and drive alignment across marketing, product, client experience, finance, and operations. Each vertical is run by a General Manager who is part of our executive leadership team. As Go-to-Market Manager, you'll be a core member of the team responsible for scaling the Social Security Disability vertical, our main business line. Reporting to our General Manager (Peter Bailinson) and partnering directly with our CEO (Sam Byker) and functional leaders across the company, you'll own our highest-priority initiatives end-to-end. This isn't a narrowly-scoped role: you'll be tackling the hardest problems we face as a company, with real authority to shape outcomes and daily visibility at the leadership level. It demands strong judgment, comfort with ambiguity, confidence managing others, and the ability to drive alignment across every part of the organization. - Launch a new client acquisition channel through a rapid test-and-learn pilot. - Lead a cross-functional team to better integrate AI into the bottom-half of our client funnel. - Craft a plan to invest $750K into completely redoing our website. The role is a rare opportunity to join a fast-growing Series C startup in a pivotal role and is a clear pathway to both own a P&L and gain expertise in key functions like marketing and product. It’s designed to be a path to staying here and growing as an executive, or even starting your own company down the road. Qualifications - You started your career at a top consulting firm and have already made the leap to an operator role in an early-to-growth stage startup, with a track record of tackling initiatives that fueled company traction. - You are still working at a top consulting firm, and have excelled to a remarkable degree compared to your peers (e.g., rapid promotions, taken on an unusual degree of ownership or responsibility). You manage teams. Regardless of the profile, we’ll evaluate candidates based on the following qualifications: - Demonstrated insightful, decisive judgment when it comes to developing strategies, and a track record of making tough, smart calls among competing priorities. - Experience leading teams of high-performing individual contributors (bonus points if they were cross-functional). - Steered projects where you mapped complex systems, gathered and analyzed data, made recommendations, and helped design and implement solutions. - A kind and thoughtful colleague who knows how to shape a great team culture, persuasively advocate for your ideas, and get buy-in from others. - A demonstrated commitment to doing good and helping people. Bonus / Nice-to-Have: - Experience with marketplace businesses or complex consumer services (insurance, fintech, medical, real estate, etc.). - Experience with consumer-focused research or discovery work, or something else that makes you comfortable interviewing and empathizing with people from all walks of life. We are strongly committed to building a diverse team. If you’re from a background that’s underrepresented in tech, we’d love to meet you. Benefits - Competitive pay — including equity — and generous benefits. - Medical and dental insurance with 100% of employee premiums covered. - 15 vacation days & ~20 paid holidays each year (including two weeks at the end-of-year). - Free membership to OneMedical. - $50/month internet stipend. - $1,000 reimbursable stipend for education and training outside of work. - Up to $1,200/year student loan repayment assistance. - 401(k) and optional HSA/FSA. - Humble, thoughtful, smart, fun colleagues. We anticipate the base salary band for this role will be between $160,000 and $180,000 in addition to equity and benefits. The salary at offer will be determined by a number of factors such as candidate’s experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity among our team. Location This job is fully remote and we’re committed to empowering everyone with flexibility. Work remotely, and travel to LA (on the company dime) as needed to be with your colleagues – usually quarterly, plus offsites. We care a lot about building a great culture and we think some interactions need to happen in person, so we put a lot of thought into retreats, offsites, and other ways to gather.

• Own and operate our data warehouse, pipelines, and transformation layer • Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines that ingest data from across our platform and third-party sources, ensuring data is always available and trustworthy for downstream consumers • Partner with data scientists and analysts to deliver clean, well-documented datasets and optimize query performance so teams spend less time wrangling data and more time generating insights • Incrementally improve and modernize our existing data systems - you won't build everything from scratch, but you'll know how to assess what we have, prioritize what matters, and migrate thoughtfully • Implement data quality monitoring, alerting, and documentation practices that build trust across the organization

• As the Chief of Staff to the CMO, you’ll report to our Chief Marketing Officer and will lead strategic projects, including launching new growth channels. • You will own market and client insight, run new channel experiments, and scale what works. • Day-to-day, you’ll work cross-functionally with Growth Marketing, Creative, Product, and Data partners to design, build, and run new channel tests. • Conduct quantitative and qualitative research to deepen our understanding of our clients and the contingent law space. • Dig into data to surface the highest-potential growth opportunities hiding in our funnel. • Develop a full marketing strategy for a new channel, defining the audience, offer, and differentiated positioning that will inspire our clients to choose Atticus. • Launch a new channel test, defining a clear measurement framework and success criteria. • Evaluate test performance, owning weekly reporting and analysis. • Lead cross-functional projects with Creative, Growth Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Design teams to create product experiences that meet the unique needs of our audience.

• Own and evolve our data integration infrastructure — data infrastructure, marketing enablement, customer communication tools, and experimentation data flows • Build the connective tissue between Growth's external tools and internal systems • Partner closely with the broader Growth team to translate fast-moving priorities into well-scoped, executable engineering work • Balance velocity with system health — make deliberate tradeoffs and document your reasoning • Work across our full product stack as needed; this is a backend-focused role but we deeply value a generalist product engineering mindset

• Own significant backend systems end-to-end: set and hold a high bar for architecture, design, implementation, and production health. • Partner closely with product and design to shape requirements, not just implement them — we trust your intuitions and want you to have opinions • You’ll bring 0-to-1 product thinking to an area where your work has a tangible impact on our client’s wellbeing. • Mentor engineers on the team, with particular emphasis on backend patterns • Work across the stack as needed, everything from frontend UI work to data systems.

• Serve as a founding member of the company’s data science function, building a culture of collaboration, growth, and excellence that will attract talent for years to come • Design metrics, build data pipelines, run experiments, launch models – apply a broad toolkit to expansive data from a rapidly growing business • Work closely with department leads and their teams to ensure our decision-making and operations are data-informed • Interpret data as the collective voice of our clients, generating insights that inform our product roadmap and user experience • Hold teams accountable to measurable impact, enabling them to identify and target their most effective levers to improve the business