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Griffin, a fully regulated UK bank powering fintech offerings, is seeking a Commercial Paralegal to manage day-to-day contract work. This role involves negotiating customer and supplier contracts, maintaining contract databases, and providing pragmatic legal advice. As the second hire in the Legal team, you'll help shape the function's growth and work closely with Legal Counsel. The role requires solid experience in commercial contract review and negotiation, an understanding of in-house legal work, and the confidence to work with senior stakeholders in a regulated financial environment. This is a remote-first position within the UK.
Hi, we’re Griffin. We’re a fully regulated UK bank that powers the accounts and payments offerings of product-led fintechs and platforms like Uber, Yonder, Prosper, and Sidekick. By doing the heavy lifting behind the scenes, our customers can focus on what they do best - delivering amazing customer experiences.
We’ve grown rapidly since our launch in 2024, and today provide the banking backbone behind products in remittance, payroll, wealth, insurance, proptech, payments, neobanking and more.
We’re moving into card issuing, stablecoin infrastructure, and agentic finance next as we continue to support the next generation of product-led companies.
We believe that smart, motivated, conscientious people thrive in high-trust, high-autonomy environments and have done our best to create such an environment at Griffin. People who thrive here don’t require much hand-holding, and go out of their way to figure out how to contribute in the most valuable way possible.
We've been remote-first since we were established in 2017 and we remain so today. Work here is asynchronous and fully flexible - because we want to be a part of your life in a way that helps you to get the most out of both your work and home life.
We understand that our culture and ways of working aren’t for everyone, and we’re very intentional about our hiring process as a result. We won't hire people who don’t seem like a strong fit for our core values, even if they're otherwise extremely qualified.
Our strong culture has helped us to remain a mission-driven company as we have scaled, and gives our people a clear, explicit operating framework and the space to focus on delivering real value for our customers.
Our Legal team keeps Griffin moving: from the contracts that get customers live to the frameworks that let us grow safely.
You’ll report into and have the support of our Legal Counsel Melissa, who serves as our business’s trusted legal advisor - looking after everything from our contract negotiations, to providing guidance across a broad range of legal matters, identifying and managing legal risk, and helping our business make informed decisions as we scale. This role will be our second hire into the team and, working closely with Melissa, you’ll have real scope to shape how the function grows from here. This role will directly enable the wider business to grow, giving us the capacity to take on more, move faster, and support Griffin's next stage.
We're looking for a Commercial Paralegal to own our day-to-day contract work, including negotiating customer and suppliers contract, managing and maintaining our live contract databases, and become the business's go-to for quick, pragmatic legal advice. As our second legal hire, you'll also play a direct role in building the team itself, helping shape how we work as we grow. It's a great chance to roll up your sleeves, make a real difference, and help scale a fun fintech bank — with real impact in a small legal team where your contributions are visible and valued. You’ll have meaningful responsibility from day one, direct exposure to senior stakeholders, and broad commercial legal work within an FCA and PRA regulated environment.
In your first 1 to 3 months, you'll understand our embedded banking model well enough to see how it shapes every contract we sign. By month 3 to 6, you'll be running contract negotiations and NDAs with limited oversight, and stakeholders across the business will already be coming to you directly. By month 12, you'll be a trusted advisor in your own right — someone the team can rely on.
This description reflects what we need today. How you achieve these outcomes, where you focus your energy, how this role evolves—that's for you to define as you learn what our customers need and where our technical gaps are. We want someone who will get to know how we work inside out and grow with us.
To ensure this, we're looking for people who have:
Ideally, you would also:
We're open to applications from experienced paralegals, newly qualified solicitors, and candidates with equivalent commercial legal experience.
Qualifying Work Experience
For candidates pursuing qualification through the SQE route, this role may provide the right candidate with an opportunity to gain Qualifying Work Experience (QWE).
We are an early stage startup and we're working hard to expand our benefits package. We're planning to add to this list in the future.
As a bank, we’re committed to maintaining the highest standards of security. This means that the successful candidate will need to complete background screening, and our offer will be conditional upon satisfactory review of these checks. This would include verification of right to work, criminal record, credit history, social media and professional reference checks
We move as fast as possible, but it normally takes us about 2-3 weeks to get to know to each other.
Are we your next move? Apply via the link below, if there's a match our Talent team will reach out to schedule an initial conversation and talk you through what happens next.
We trust people to do great work wherever they are. We hire across the UK and most of our team works remotely full-time. We have a small London office in Moorgate for those who want it, and about a third of the company is close enough to use it occasionally, but there's no expectation to be there. What matters is the work, not where you do it.
Our goal is for Griffin to proportionally represent the diversity of the working population in society. We’re working to ensure that Griffin is a supportive, empowering and inclusive environment for every member of our team — whatever your combination of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, physical ability, nationality, neurodiversity, and religious beliefs. If you’re part of a group that is under-represented in fintech, we’d love to hear from you.