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About the Role

ARX Robotics is seeking a Senior Legal and Commercial Counsel in the United Kingdom to provide pragmatic legal advice, enable commercial activity, and embed compliance practices within a fast-moving, regulated defence technology environment. This role involves managing a broad range of UK legal and commercial matters, including contracts, tenders, partnerships, and compliance risks like export controls and sanctions.

Responsibilities

Own and support a broad range of UK-facing legal and commercial matters, from customer and supplier agreements to tenders, partnerships and day-to-day business questions.
Identify and manage regulatory and compliance risks relevant to our work, including export controls and sanctions.
Coordinate with internal stakeholders and external advisers for specialist advice or formal approvals.
Provide clear guidance that enables teams to move forward responsibly.
Ensure strong, consistent contract practices across the commercial lifecycle, including drafting, review, negotiation, approval, execution and ongoing contract support.
Provide effective legal support for customer and supplier contracts, tenders, procurement processes, partnerships, NDAs, statements of work and other business arrangements.
Offer clear, risk-based advice on commercial terms, liability, warranties, intellectual property, confidentiality, data protection, disputes and other legal issues.
Implement a robust approach to identifying, assessing and escalating compliance risks relevant to the UK business, including UK export controls, sanctions, anti-bribery and corruption, and competition considerations.
Provide practical compliance guidance and awareness initiatives.
Effectively coordinate with internal stakeholders and external legal or compliance advisers, including managing external advice.
Manage corporate housekeeping and governance matters for UK operations.
Build trusted working relationships across commercial, finance, operations, engineering and leadership teams.

Requirements

A recognised 5 years + post legal qualification and the right to practise in a relevant UK jurisdiction.
Significant post-qualification experience in commercial legal work, ideally gained in-house or in a commercial law firm supporting technology, industrial, defence, aerospace or other regulated businesses.
Strong experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating complex commercial agreements and supporting transactions through to execution.
Ability to provide concise, practical advice that explains material risks and options to non-lawyers.
Experience advising on compliance matters, with working knowledge of relevant UK requirements.
Exposure to export controls and sanctions is strongly preferred; experience with defence or dual-use products is an advantage.
Familiarity with UK data protection requirements.
Sound judgement in handling sensitive information and a high standard of integrity, confidentiality and accountability.
A collaborative, hands-on approach and the confidence to work independently while knowing when to escalate or involve specialist advisers.
Excellent written and spoken English.
Ability to work effectively in a growing, international environment where priorities can evolve and legal guidance needs to be both rigorous and commercially grounded.
Motivated candidates who are eager to grow into the role and develop their expertise further.

Skills

Commercial legal work
Contract drafting, review, and negotiation
Compliance advising
Export controls
Sanctions
UK data protection
Written and spoken English
Independent work
Collaboration

Location

United Kingdom

Work Type

Hybrid working setup

Experience Level

5+ years post legal qualification
Senior

Education Level

Recognised legal qualification

Benefits

Competitive compensation package
Bonus opportunity
27 days of annual leave, increasing with tenure up to 30 days
Enhanced pension scheme
Private medical and dental insurance
Learning & development support
Team events budget
Referral bonus program
Dog-friendly office
Relocation support

About the Company

ARX Robotics is a mission-driven European defense tech company at a pivotal stage of growth.
ARX is a dual-use technology company that specializes in developing autonomous unmanned systems and sensors for the European defence sector.
Our dual-use unmanned ground systems and sensors assist NATO Armies and civilian first responders in tackling their most challenging problems.
We operate in a dynamic sector where collaboration, sharing innovative ideas, and developing novel problem-solving strategies are ingrained in our work culture.
We are seeking motivated candidates who are excited to work in a highly energetic, creative, and innovative team dedicated to developing autonomous systems for challenging environments.

Equal Opportunity

ARX is an equal-opportunity employer, and we encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.
We recognise that members of the Armed Forces community may have unique career paths and may face particular challenges due to service life. We welcome applications from members of our Armed Forces Community and will take relevant circumstances into account during our recruitment process.
Any information you provide will be treated in confidence and used only to help us understand any context we should consider, such as career gaps or frequent relocations, all with the aim of ensuring members of the Armed Forces community are not unfairly disadvantaged.