Deputy General Counsel

About us We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable https://www.thetrainline.com/terms/sustainability-faqs future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels. Great journeys start with Trainline 🚄 Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 135 million monthly visits and £6.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, eco-friendly and affordable as it should be. Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh and Madrid. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey. Introducing the Trainline Legal Team 👋 The Legal team at Trainline helps the business grow with confidence by providing clear, commercially minded guidance across legal, regulatory, competition and policy matters. As we continue to make rail and coach travel simpler, smarter and more sustainable for millions of people across the UK and Europe, the team plays a critical role in helping Trainline navigate complexity, make sound decisions and deliver long-term impact. As Deputy General Counsel, you will be a senior leader within the Legal team and a member of the Extended Leadership Team, partnering closely with the General Counsel, Executive team, Board-level stakeholders and senior leaders across the business. You will help shape Trainline’s legal and regulatory strategy across core and emerging markets, lead a high-performing team, and provide pragmatic guidance on business-critical decisions in a fast-moving and highly visible environment. In this role as the Deputy General Counsel, you will...🚄 - Lead Trainline’s competition and regulatory strategy globally, helping the business anticipate and respond to evolving market dynamics while supporting sustainable growth. - Act as a trusted strategic adviser to senior leadership, bringing clear judgement, commercial awareness and pragmatic legal input to Executive and Board-level discussions. - Partner with teams across Legal, Product, Technology, Commercial, Policy and Finance to connect legal and regulatory considerations with business priorities, enabling confident and well-informed decision making. - Represent Trainline with external stakeholders, including regulators and industry bodies, helping shape our market positioning and supporting constructive, credible engagement. - Lead, coach and develop a high-performing legal team, creating clarity around priorities, strengthening capability and fostering a collaborative, commercially minded team culture. - Oversee team strategy, planning, budgets and goals, ensuring the Legal function is set up to deliver effectively against current needs and future business ambitions. - Support Trainline’s response to complex and high-profile matters, balancing risk, opportunity and customer outcomes with sound legal and commercial judgement. - Help the business understand and respond to innovation, emerging technologies and evolving ways of working, including the opportunities and considerations created by AI. We'd love to hear from you if you have...🔍 - Significant senior legal leadership experience in regulated environments, with strong judgement and a clear understanding of how legal, policy and regulatory developments can shape business strategy. - Experience advising Executive teams, Boards or similarly senior stakeholders on complex matters, with the ability to influence decisions in ambiguous or fast-moving situations. - A strong track record of leading, developing and motivating teams, creating clarity, high standards and an inclusive environment where people can do thei…