Legal Counsel

About Artificial

Help shape the future of specialty insurance

At Artificial, we’re building the next generation of technology for the specialty (re)insurance market. Our mission is to transform how brokers and carriers operate in complex markets by removing operational barriers and enabling smarter, faster decision-making.

We use modern technology to solve real challenges for some of the world’s leading brokers and insurers. By automating the repetitive and structuring the complex, we help our partners unlock new opportunities for innovation and growth.

You’ll be joining a collaborative team that values curiosity, ownership, and continuous learning. We work in an environment where ideas are heard, support is built-in, and outcomes matter. Everyone here has the chance to make a tangible impact on our products, our customers, and the industry.

We've just raised $45M (£33M) in Series B funding from lead investor CommerzVentures, new investor Move Capital, as well as all existing shareholders. This investment round gives us the room to grow with confidence, continue to innovate, and ensure that Artificial remains the first choice for brokers and carriers seeking a smarter way to trade digitally.

Join us, and take the chance to be a part of something that will change the landscape of insurance for generations.

About the role

We are looking for a sharp, commercially-minded Legal Counsel (NQ/PQE) to join our small Legal team and grow with us. Reporting directly to the Head of Legal, you will get hands-on exposure to the legal questions that actually matter to a modern enterprise software company: how we contract with global insurers, brokers and MGAs; how we protect our intellectual property; how we use and govern AI responsibly; and how we keep up with the wave of regulation coming at financial services companies and their technology vendors.

You will be trusted with real work from day one, you will see deals end-to-end, and you will help design the legal playbooks and processes that a fast-growing insurtech needs in order to scale safely. If you trained at a top London firm and did an in-house seat that made you think “this is the bit I want more of”, this role is for you.

What you'll do

• Commercial contracts. Draft, review and negotiate the full range of customer and vendor agreements: SaaS terms, MSAs, order forms, statements of work, data processing agreements, professional services and consultancy contracts and NDAs.

• ICT and AI contracting. Help us stay ahead of how technology contracts are changing in financial services — DORA-style ICT third-party obligations, operational resilience flow-downs, AI value-chain provisions, and the practical clauses our customers are asking for. You will help shape our templates and positions as the rules evolve.

• Intellectual property. Protect and commercialise our IP — our platform, our proprietary domain-specific language (Brossa), our models and our brand. Advise on ownership and licensing across customer agreements and supplier arrangements, and work with Product and Engineering on IP and open-source policy.

• Data protection and privacy. Be a trusted advisor on UK GDPR, the EU GDPR and related regimes. Review DPAs and sub-processor arrangements, help us answer customer security and privacy questionnaires, and partner closely with Compliance and Information Security.

• Build legal processes. Help us turn ad-hoc work into a real legal function: playbooks, templates, fallback positions, intake forms, approval matrices, and the right use of our CLM. You will have a direct hand in deciding how Legal scales from “two of us” to a proper team.

• Cross-functional partnership. Work day-to-day with Commercial, Product, Engineering, Security, Compliance and Finance. Translate complex legal points into clear, actionable advice that helps the business make good decisions quickly.

• Horizon scanning. Keep us informed on the developments that matter — AI regulation, operational resilience, data protection reform, sectoral guidance — and help us decide what to do about them.

About You

• You are a newly qualified solicitor (England & Wales) or up to around 1 year PQE, ideally trained at a leading London law firm (Magic Circle, Silver Circle, leading City or top US firm).

• During your training contract you completed a client secondment or in-house seat, and it left you wanting to spend more of your career on the business side of the table.

• You have meaningful exposure across at least two of: commercial contracts (especially technology/SaaS), intellectual property, employment and data protection. Experience touching financial services or insurance regulation is a bonus, but not required.

• You write clearly. You can take a complex set of obligations and turn them into something a non-lawyer can read in two minutes and act on.

• You are commercially curious. You want to understand what the deal is really about, what the customer actually cares about, and where Legal can help unlock value rather than just police it.

• You are excited by AI, technology and the regulatory landscape forming around them — the EU AI Act, DORA and operational resilience, evolving ICT contracting standards — and you want to be part of a team working at the front line of that change.

• You are happy operating with autonomy and ambiguity. You enjoy figuring out what “good” looks like when there is no precedent in the filing cabinet, and you are confident asking for help when you need it.

We especially want to hear from you if you have

• A second in-house seat, a fintech or insurtech secondment, or post-qualification time spent supporting a technology or financial services client.

• Awareness of ISO 27001, SOC 2 and similar security frameworks, and how they show up in customer contracts.

• Experience drafting or negotiating AI-related contractual provisions, including model use, training data, output indemnities and assurance obligations.

Benefits

• Private medical insurance

• Income protection insurance

• Life insurance of 4 * base salary

• On-site gym and shower facilities

• Enhanced family policies

• Team social events and company parties

• Salary exchange on pension and nursery fees

• Access to Maji, the financial wellbeing platform

• Company stock options managed through Ledgy

• Milestone Birthday Bonus and a Life Events leave policy

• Generous holiday allowance of 28 days plus national holidays

• Home office and equipment allowance, and a company MacBook

• Learning allowance and leave to attend conferences or take exams

• YuLife employee benefits, including EAP and bereavement helplines

• For each new hire, we plant a tree through our partnership with Ecologi Action

• The best coffee machine in London, handmade in Italy and imported just for us!
  
  

  We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to building a team that reflects the diverse communities around us. If there’s anything you need to make the hiring process more accessible, just let us know—we’re happy to make adjustments. You’re also welcome to share your preferred pronouns with us at any point.
  
  

  Think you don’t meet every requirement? Please apply anyway. We value potential as much as experience, and we know that raw talent counts.
  
  

  As part of our hiring process, we’ll carry out some background checks. These may include a criminal record check, reviewing your credit history, speaking with previous employers and confirming your academic qualifications.