Senior Legal Counsel

📈 Who We Are:

We are rebuilding the energy transaction, making it transparent and fair.

Our goal is to put power back where it belongs, in the hands of customers and to take on one of the most critical problems of our century, access to low cost electricity.

tem exists to fix a broken global energy market that’s long favoured legacy operators, intermediaries, and opaque pricing. Today’s electricity system was not designed for rapid decarbonisation, AI-driven efficiency or fair access for the actual users - businesses and generators.

We’ve built the first AI native transaction infrastructure to reinvent how electricity is bought, sold and priced. Our technology is designed to cut out the inefficient fees, automate complex market flows, and bring transparency and fairness to energy transactions at scale.

In late 2025, after extraordinary growth, we closed a $75 million Series B - led by Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from Atomico, Allianz, Hitachi Ventures, Schroders Capital and others - positioning us for global expansion, deeper product innovation and category leadership.

We’re scaling internationally and building toward a future where AI-driven infrastructure is foundational to electricity markets worldwide.

Since launch, our modern utility product, known as RED, has already facilitated thousands of business customers and billions in energy transaction value, proving that modern software and AI can transform an industry built on legacy systems.

At tem, we’re not just building another energy company, we’re rearchitecting market infrastructure so that transparency, efficiency and sustainability become the default, not the exception.

🏅 The Role

We’re hiring our first in-house legal hire - a senior commercial legal profile who can operate in a fast-growing startup environment.

This role is predominantly focused on commercial and contractual law, including customer contracting and the day-to-day contracting processes that support revenue and growth. You specifically noted this is much less focused on corporate structure or the governance side of the law.

We are looking for someone with a very strong commercial brain alongside a strong legal background - someone who can think holistically about commercial risk and reward, not just drive to mitigate risk.

You will also help manage external law firms across specialist areas, including support on fundraising and other general corporate matters (for example tax), while keeping pace and responsiveness high.

🚀 Responsibilities

• Manage tem’s internal contracting processes and keep them running with strong pace and consistency.

• Create, develop, and amend customer contracts and other commercial agreements.

• Support compliance in relation to regulatory requirements in the energy market (alongside the contracting work).

• Apply strong commercial judgement to contracting decisions by balancing risk with growth opportunity.

• Manage and coordinate external law firms for:

  • Contract drafting support where needed

  • Fundraising support (working with the firm that manages the fundraising process)

  • Broader general corporate matters handled externally (for example tax)

• Maintain a strong feedback loop and operational rhythm with external counsel so commercial contracts and fundraising work do not stall.

Success in this role

Success is not about slowing things down. It is about enabling the business to move quickly and confidently by strengthening contracting, decision-making, and the operational pace of legal execution.

🎯 Requirements

Must haves

• Clearly senior profile (not junior).

• Experience in an in-house legal position at a tech company (FinTech or energy ideal, but not required).

• Strong commercial and contractual law focus.

• Strong commercial brain - able to understand risk/reward trade-offs and support growth-oriented decisions.

• Experience operating in a fast-growing startup environment.

• Ability to manage external law firms effectively across contracting support and fundraising support.

Bonus points

• Background in FinTech or energy.

• Experience working in environments where legal has to keep a very high pace across commercial contracting and fundraising simultaneously.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including those that are traditionally underrepresented in the tech and energy sectors. If you’re excited about this role but not sure you meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Your unique perspective could be exactly what we’re looking for.