Legal Counsel

We're looking for a Legal Counsel to join our Legal team and take responsibility for Yoto's corporate work and commercial contracts, from corporate transactions and governance to content and partner deals.

About Yoto

Yoto is a screen-free interactive audio platform for kids. We make carefully connected audio players that kids control, with no microphones, cameras or ads. We have a catalogue of audio that inspires creative play and learning with 1,000+ titles in our card store from top creators, publishers and labels - think Disney, Marvel, Roald Dahl and Universal Music. We also create Yoto Originals like BrainBots.

• Voted the 14th fastest-growing private software technology company in Britain in The Sunday Times 100 Tech 2025; and named the 94th fastest-growing company in Europe in the prestigious FT1000.

• Ranked 9th in Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024; and featured in the Sifted 100 fastest-growing startups across the UK&I by revenue growth.

• Featured in Bloomberg's 25 UK startups to watch in 2023; and ranked second fastest growing tech company in the UK in the Deloitte Fast50.

• Named one of TIME Magazine's Top 100 Inventions of 2020.

• We're over 200 employees spread across the world and growing!

We're on a mission to be the soundtrack of childhood, and help families on their own unique adventures. By creating products that inspire independent play, we help families discover and grow with an inspiring world of audio - and we would like you to help us achieve it!

Yoto's Legal Team

Behind every Yoto card is a web of partnerships, licences and promises to families, and our Legal team helps make sure they all hold together. You'll join a small, close-knit team made up of our COO/Chief Legal Officer, Head of Legal and Legal Counsel. We sit right at the heart of the business: partnering with Content, Finance, Product, Growth and Operations, and supporting any Legal work with the Board. As Yoto keeps growing, we're building the corporate and commercial foundations that let the rest of the company move quickly and confidently. You'll join at an exciting time, with plenty of meaty work and room to shape how Legal works.

What you'll be doing:

• Supporting the CLO with global corporate governance: preparing board and committee papers, drafting minutes and resolutions, and maintaining statutory registers, cap table records and Companies House filings.

• Supporting corporate matters, such as running due diligence, drafting and reviewing corporate documents and project management as needed.

• Leading the review of a broad portfolio of commercial contracts end-to-end, from drafting and negotiating through to signature. That includes content and IP licensing deals with publishers, music labels and brand partners, as well as Saas, procurement, technology, manufacturing/supply chain and marketing agreements.

• Developing and maintaining contract templates, playbooks and processes, and using tools (including AI) to streamline and automate how Legal works so the whole company can move faster. Training internal teams on contracts, approvals and legal best practice so they can confidently handle the everyday questions themselves

• Picking up ad-hoc legal projects across the business as Yoto grows, including product counselling on consumer law, AI, data protection and IP and giving practical, commercially minded advice.

What you'll bring:

• Qualified as a solicitor in England & Wales (or equivalent, with the right to work in the UK), with around 3 - 6 years' post-qualification experience in house or at a leading law firm.

• Strong experience drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, with the judgement to know where to hold firm and where to be pragmatic.

• Hands-on corporate experience, ideally including venture or growth-stage fundraising readiness and board and company secretarial work, such as minutes and resolution drafting.

• Deep, practical expertise in your area, and the ability to take a complex problem, find a clear way through it and explain it simply to non lawyers.

• Excellent communication and relationship skills, with the confidence to influence senior stakeholders and work across lots of different teams and personalities.

• Highly organised and comfortable managing multiple matters at once, with a roll your sleeves up attitude and a curious, solution oriented outlook.

Salary: £80,000 - £100,000 based on experience. We never want to miss out on great candidates, so don't let our banding put you off reaching out - there's sometimes flexibility for the right fit!

How we use AI at Yoto

We think using AI to work smarter is part of the job.

At Yoto, we use AI to help us move faster and reduce manual work so we can focus our time on creativity, problem-solving and impact. We don't want to use AI to cut corners - it's about smart usage that makes space for the work that really matters. Our intention is to be thoughtful about how we use AI. We treat its outputs as a starting point, not the final answer, and we take care to use it responsibly - especially given the trust families place in Yoto.