Founding Legal Operations Lead

Odin is building the investment infrastructure for the future of private markets.
We believe capital is one of the most powerful tools for shaping the world - and more people should know how to put it to work. Our mission is to make it radically easier to raise and deploy capital so that anyone anywhere can back the companies and ideas they believe in.

Our first product is a full-stack platform for launching and running private investment firms allowing you to run everything from your phone - think Shopify for VC and PE. We handle all the infrastructure: from legal structuring and investor onboarding to KYC/AML payments tax reporting and exits.

Were already trusted by over 10000 angels VCs and founders. We administer over $750m in assets covering investments from pre-seed to series E. This includes household names like ElevenLabs OpenAI SpaceX xAI Anduril etc. but also new companies creating everything from synthetic brains to small nuclear reactors.

Why were hiring

• We are automating a decades old part of the financial services industry. AI pilled operators like you are the beating heart of this plan because LLMs & agents allow us to turn this services business entirely into software.

• Were post-PMF fast-growing and rolling out new products (fund admin) & geographies (USA). Customer & deal volume is climbing fast.

• Today were on track for roughly 700 deals a year with a team of 20 and well process $500m-$750m of investment in 2026 alone.

• The next goal is 7000 deals a year and billions in annual investment flows.

• We believe this can be achieved with a team of around 50 people. But it will only be possible if we turn human-driven services workflows into software.

• The operational machine behind Odin is still held together in many places by people and spreadsheets. Your job is to come in understand every process and system simplify streamline and automate the shit out of it.

• Youll be part of a small elite team embedded in operations and working closely with existing team members to build agents that automate work.

• This is a legal role with heavy operational involvement and a requirement to build things. It is not a legal counsel role. Youll be qualified youll be able to act as counsel on day to day deal legals but youll sit close to the work and focus on streamlining / automating the systems generating the work in the first place.

• We expect the right hire to be spending more time in Claude Code than in Microsoft Word or Docusign.

What youll own

• Post-close and deal legals: Youll own post-close: governance events transfers secondaries distributions and exits. There is huge surface area for automation here too. Youll also take care of the unusual issues where our documentation doesnt cleanly answer a question.

• Legal Reviews & Escalations: Every legal escalation coming out of the operations team.

• Automation: Youll work alongside the deal operations team with a standing instruction to automate their work. Youll bring product/design/engineering into the things that genuinely need significant engineering work but youll mainly work autonomously without them. Before it gets to them youve already made the process as simple and fast as possible and usually vibe coded something that works well but perhaps needs to be stabilised / scaled.

• Managing external counsel: Youll help decide what stays in-house what goes out and hold external advisers to account on cost and turnaround.

What were looking for

• AI-pilled builder: Clear evidence at work or in your own time that youve built concrete solutions to problems with no budget and no engineers. No-code tooling scripts spreadsheets vibe-coded apps and more.

• Qualified with real deal legals experience: Funds corporate or financial services.

• In the details and extremely on top of things: You understand every single aspect of our systems end to end. You close loops you chase you push hard to get things done.

• First principles thinker: Although youre in the details and on top of execution you also zoom out. You look at any process the way a good product manager looks at a product: Whats the job Why are we doing this at all Whats the smallest simplest system that achieves the goal
  A lot of what happens in fund admin is inherited convention an industry given or a constraint of some third party. You should find it physically difficult to accept any of that.

• Commercial judgement at speed: Youre comfortable in a regulated business and comfortable with the fact that commercial and regulatory pressure sometimes point in different directions. You are able to make decisions autonomously in this environment.

• You want to operate not manage: Odin is not a place for middle management. We all get shit done regardless of title or seniority

How we work

There are five things we care about deeply:

1. Reason from the ground up: Seek to understand what is true by always asking why. Do not trust convention or experts.

2. Speed begets speed: We work fast. Speed compounds its the best form of defensibility and its energising to be around. If you work slowly or tolerate slow work around you you do not belong at Odin.

3. Take ownership: Do not wait for permission to do things. Find the answer force the thing into existence and hold others to an extremely high standard - the same standard you hold yourself to.

4. Brutal honesty: If work doesnt meet the bar people need to hear it and the right people want to.

5. Truly excellent customer service: Be a stickler for detail in every single interaction a customer has with us and always strive to make this experience better smoother faster.

This role is probably not for you if

• You want to practise law in a firm or you want a purely advisory seat with a wall between you and the operation;

• You need complete information before youll give a view;

• Youd rather build product than operate. Product instinct is required in this role but a product management career is not what this is;

• You prefer close management of your responsibilities;

• You are risk-averse;

• You want a 9-5;

• You take yourself too seriously;

• You care about working for a company thats raised lots of money rather than one thats extremely capital efficient and focused on building a profitable giant that has a positive economic impact

Salary

80k - 100k base plus a meaningful equity grant. Were flexible on the mix of cash and equity.

Hiring process

Three stages usually inside two weeks with detailed feedback within 24 hours of each one.

Location & ways of working

Were a London-based team. This role works closely with the founders product and the wider ops team and the speed we run at makes that much easier in-person. At least three days a week in the office.

Benefits

• Health: Private health insurance (Vitality) paid sick leave including support for pregnancy loss and fertility treatments and access to Spill for mental health support

• Wellness: 1000 annual budget for health therapy or fitness

• Parental Leave: Enhanced maternity adoption paternity and partner leave

• Pension: 4% employer contribution with salary sacrifice options

• Time Off: 25 days annual leave 2 wellness days and flexible bank holidays (33 days total)

• Work From Anywhere: Up to 6 weeks per year working from anywhere globally

• Birthday Leave: An additional day of leave

Required Experience:

Manager