Lead Counsel UK and Europe
Ramp is an AI-powered financial operations platform for businesses, combining corporate cards, expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, procurement, travel, treasury, and related finance workflows.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
About Ramp
Ramp is a privately held New York financial-services company founded in 2019. Its platform combines corporate cards, spend and expense management, bill payments, accounting automation, procurement, travel, treasury, and other financial-operations services. Ramp reports serving more than 70,000 companies.
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Candidate Availability
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About the Role
Serve as Ramp's first international legal counsel in London, supporting product, regulatory, commercial, employment, corporate, and operational matters for UK and European operations. Advise on payment services, negotiate commercial agreements, support product launches and expansion, build scalable legal processes, and coordinate with external counsel.
Requirements
- Be a qualified attorney authorized to practice in the United Kingdom
- Have substantial in-house or law-firm experience supporting regulated financial-services businesses
- Possess working knowledge of United Kingdom and European Union payments, e-money, financial-services, and technology requirements
- Advise cross-functionally on product, commercial, corporate, employment, and operational matters
- Demonstrate drafting, negotiation, stakeholder-management, and project-management skills
Responsibilities
- Advise on legal and regulatory matters across UK and EU financial technology operations
- Negotiate and draft commercial agreements, bank-partner arrangements, and customer-facing terms
- Partner with Product, Compliance, Risk, Finance, and Marketing to structure and launch products, payment flows, and market expansions
- Build scalable legal processes, templates, training, and issue-escalation frameworks
- Support entity formation, governance, local hiring, employment matters, and external-counsel coordination
Benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Centralized home-office equipment ordering
- Health and wellness stipend
- Budget for intra-office travel
- Weekly coffee stipend
- Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite
- Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi
- Workplace pension through Penfold with salary sacrifice option
- Parental leave of up to 16 weeks for birthing and bonding or 8 weeks for bonding only at full pay, with additional reduced-pay time available