Legal Counsel

Location: Remote (UK/EU)

Reporting to: Director of Risk

At Nivoda, we’re reimagining how the world buys and sells jewellery. Our global marketplace connects retailers and suppliers across diamonds, gemstones, and finished jewellery, already powering over $300M in annual transactions and scaling fast toward our billion-dollar vision.

We’re bringing tech, data, and automation to a $350B industry that’s barely scratched the surface of digital transformation. The result? Explosive growth and massive opportunity — powered by a team that makes it happen.

As we scale, legal is becoming increasingly central to how we fund, govern, and operate the business. This role exists to help us do that thoughtfully, pragmatically, and at speed.

The idea of Nivoda was inspired by the ongoing inefficiency of diamond trading. We set out to develop the solution to help businesses, regardless of their size or location, increase their sales and margins, whilst removing the operational burden of sourcing diamonds.

We are looking for a Legal Counsel to be our first in-house lawyer - a strong generalist with a clear track record supporting equity fundraising and investor diligence who wants to grow into a senior legal leader in a high-growth tech environment.

This role will cover a broad remit across corporate governance, debt and equity funding, equity programmes, commercial contracts, and employment matters - with exposure to the board and senior leadership from day one.

We're looking for someone who has spent time in private practice supporting startups or scale-ups and is now excited by the idea of owning the legal function, professionalising our legal foundations, and building toward IPO-grade readiness.

• Support debt and equity financings, working closely with external counsel, investors, and leadership.
• Assist with cap table management, option schemes, and equity programme administration.
• Provide pragmatic advice on corporate structuring and shareholder matters.
• Build and maintain Nivoda’s investor due diligence packs.

Your impact: Funding processes run smoothly, compliantly, and without unnecessary friction.

• Act as Company Secretary, supporting board and committee meetings.
• Prepare agendas, attend board meetings, and take accurate minutes.
• Ensure statutory filings, resolutions, and governance obligations are met across entities.
• Strengthen governance documentation to build toward IPO-ready governance standards.

Your impact: Strong governance that supports growth, and ensures adherence to our shareholder agreements.

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements.
• Partner with Sales, Partnerships, and Operations to unblock deals pragmatically.
• Help create and maintain contract templates and playbooks.
• Drive contract standardisation and control environment improvements to support diligence and audit-readiness.

Your impact: Commercial teams move fast with appropriate legal protection.

• Provide support across people-related legal topics:
  • Advice on employment and labour law matters in partnership with People and external counsel.
  • Support with offer letters, contracts, and employee equity participation.
  • Support equity and incentive programmes (EMI/CSOP where relevant, option documentation, governance and employee comms)

Your impact: People decisions are compliant, fair, and scalable.

• Decide what to own in-house vs outsource to external counsel.
• Create a “legal readiness roadmap” for IPO-grade maturity.
• Improve legal processes, documentation, and standardization across the business.
• Act as a trusted advisor to leadership on legal and risk-related questions.

Your impact: Legal becomes a proactive enabler of growth, not a bottleneck.

• 5-7 years PQE, trained at a reputable law firm with a corporate and/or finance background
• Experience advising startups or scale-ups (either directly or via outsourced firm work)
• Hands‑on experience supporting equity fund raises, including…