We are recruiting for an experienced Senior Associate or Managing Associate to join our Tech, IP & Data team in Manchester, Bristol or Birmingham. This role will form a crucial part of our team, supporting clients principally across the Financial Services sector and more widely on occasion, handling a range of technology projects and advice relating to Fintech, tech procurement and outsourcing.

In return we will invest in you. We want you to be successful. You will manage your own projects (with Partner oversight as required) ensuring your experience is varied and broad. Through our national service lines you will work with notable clients and become an FS sector specialist. You will receive bespoke training, ensuring you have the technical, commercial and management skills to build an effective and successful practice.

Your Role

• Working as part of a wider technology and commercial team on high value, strategic procurements and contracts
• Providing non-contentious advice on a wide range of technology projects, including framework agreements, collaborations, software purchases, digital transformation projects, cloud migration and outsourcing.
• Supervising, managing and mentoring more junior members of the team
• Taking an active role in business development, including preparing pitches and tenders, providing training and building client relationships
• Working on site with clients where required (subject to Covid-19 guidance), including the option for virtual and in-person secondments.

Your Skills and Experience

Our employees are talented people, distinguished by technical excellence, with a willingness to embrace team working and a passion for client service. You will be able to demonstrate a similar supportive, flexible and driven ethos and will have accumulated the following experience and skills :

Your Team

The technology market is evolving at breakneck speed. To capitalise on all its commercial advantages, clients can benefit from our advice on development and licensing, ICT procurement, outsourcing, cloud services, e-commerce, social media and data privacy.

We work across the industry from innovative start-up technology companies seeking investment, to university spin-outs, as well as major international product manufacturers. Protecting and leveraging intellectual property assets helps businesses beat their competition and benefit from its collective brainpower. Information is one of the most valuable assets of any business. We assist clients in leveraging its potential responsibly.

About TLT

Fast paced, fast growing and forward thinking, TLT is the law firm that helps clients stay one step ahead, and we do the same for our people.

We work with high profile clients in innovative sectors. With local, national and international reach, we have over 1,200 people in offices across the UK and a network of partner firms across Europe, India and the US. In 2021 we were named The Lawyer’s Law Firm of the Year, recognising our incredible success story.

Our purpose is to protect, prepare and progress our clients for what comes next and it’s essential that we do the same for our people, our planet and our communities too. In our open and collaborative culture, we encourage everyone to be their whole self, to have a voice and to contribute.

Our Benefits

We value our employees highly and we want you to feel valued. You’ll receive a competitive salary with an annual pay review. You will also have access to an extensive range of benefits via our flexible benefits scheme including 25 days holiday (which will increase to 30 days based upon length of service) and private medical insurance.

At TLT we have a progressive fully flexible working approach. We empower our people to work in a place and at a time that meets their needs, those of their clients and of the wider team and firm. Part of this agile approach is a focus on hybrid working and supporting the work / life balance of our people.