{"id":2192432,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ils-forward-deployed-counsel","title":"Forward Deployed Counsel","company":{"id":3787483,"name":"ILS","domain":"ilsprovision.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ilsprovision","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"PeopleForce","truth_index":null},"role":"Solutions","role_family":"Solutions","seniority":null,"employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":112000,"max":null,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":148165},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-09T18:22:27Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-09","last_verified_at":"2026-10-11T22:26:22Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Location: Hybrid (UK), with regular time at customer officesEmployment Type: Permanent\nSalary: c. £112,000 per annum, depending on experience\nReporting to: Head of Customer Success\nDepartment: Customer Success\nAbout ILS\nAt Intelligent Legal Solutions (ILS), we're transforming how fund formation legal work gets done. Our flagship product, ProVision, is a legal tech SaaS platform that automates fund formation workflows for law firms and fund managers.We're still early, but we have clear product-market fit, a deep understanding of our buyers and an ambitious roadmap. We operate at the intersection of law, private investment funds and workflow automation, and we're building the go-to platform for fund formation teams globally.\nThis is a rare opportunity to join a lean, high-calibre team that is seeing significant traction in the marketplace. The bar is high, the work is hands-on, and the impact on the company's growth, brand and revenue will be direct and visible.\nWe move fast, take ownership and stay close to our customers. We value clear thinking and simplicity over complexity. If you want to do the best work of your career in legal tech, we'd love to build with you.\nThe Role\nWe're looking for a Forward Deployed Counsel to work alongside the funds teams at our customer firms and make sure ProVision is part of how they run their side letter, comment memo and MFN workflows.This is a customer-facing role for a funds lawyer, working closely with our Customer Success team, our Legal Technologists and Product.\nYou'll have the opportunity to shape how the world's leading fund formation teams adopt ProVision, and to bring what you learn from them directly into our product.\nAs ILS continues to grow, the role is likely to develop too, so we're looking for someone who is comfortable taking ownership, bringing ideas and getting involved.\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nAdoption at customer firms\nSpend regular time in customer offices, running office hours and training sessions for funds lawyers.\nOnboard new matters and set up ProVision around each firm's way of working.\nHelp teams build their MSLs, comment memos and MFN elections on the platform.\nTrack adoption at each firm and act where usage is low.\nCustomer relationships\nBuild strong relationships with partners, associates and knowledge and innovation teams.\nSpeak with funds lawyers regularly to gather feedback on ProVision.\nIdentify opportunities to extend ProVision to new teams and offices within existing customers.\nProduct feedback\nLog feature requests and feedback through our feature intake process.\nTest new features from a funds lawyer's perspective before release.\nHelp Product and Engineering understand how fund formation work is done in practice.\nWorking with the wider team\nWork closely with Customer Success, Customer Support, our Legal Technologists and Product.\nShare ideas and contribute to wider company priorities.\nHelp improve processes and ways of working as the business grows.\nWhat We're Looking For\nWe're looking for someone who is an experienced funds lawyer, confident with senior lawyers and interested in technology, and comfortable working in a growing business where things are still being built.You'll ideally have:\nA legal qualification and experience in fund formation, ideally on the GP side at an international law firm.\nA strong working knowledge of side letters, comment memos and the MFN process.\nConfidence presenting to and training partners, associates and trainees.\nComfort learning and teaching new software.\nThe organisation to manage relationships across several firms at once.\nWillingness to travel regularly to customer offices.\nIt would be great if you also have:Experience in a knowledge, innovation or legal tech role.\nExperience working with both UK and US funds teams.\nExperience running training or client workshops.\nYou don't need to tick every box. If you have strong experience that you think is relevant to the role and it sounds like something you'd enjoy, we'd still like to hear from you.What We Offer\nWe want people to do great work without losing sight of life outside of work.For this role, our package includes:\nc. £112,000 per annum, depending on experience.\n25 days' annual leave, plus UK bank holidays.\nBupa private medical and dental cover following successful completion of probation.\nCompany pension through NEST, including employer contributions.\nPerformance-related bonus opportunity.\nA flexible, hybrid working environment.\nThe opportunity to have a visible impact in a growing legal tech business.\nA collaborative team with direct access to senior leadership and founders.\nPlenty of opportunity to grow your role and responsibilities as ILS scales.\nBenefits are subject to the applicable scheme rules and company policies and may be amended from time to time.What the Interview Process Looks Like\nWe want the recruitment process to be straightforward and give you a good opportunity to get to know us too.Introductory call - A short conversation with the People team to talk through your experience, what you're looking for and the role.\nHiring Manager interview - A conversation with the Head of Customer Success to explore your experience, approach to the role and how you work.\nTraining exercise - A short session in which you take us through part of a side letter or MFN workflow as you would with a funds team. This shows us how you explain fund formation work and engage an audience of lawyers.\nFinal conversation - A final conversation with relevant members of the ILS team and founders, giving you the opportunity to ask questions and get a better feel for the team, culture and direction of the business.\nWe'll keep you updated throughout the process and aim to give you clarity on next steps after each stage.If you need a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know. We'll be happy to discuss what support you need.\nA Little More About ILS\nWe're still growing, which means things can move quickly and not everything will always be perfectly defined.We value people who take ownership, communicate clearly, ask questions and are willing to get involved. We care about doing good work, but we also believe in keeping things simple and practical.\nYou'll have the opportunity to work closely with people across the business and see the impact of your work directly.\nEqual Opportunities\nILS is committed to providing an inclusive and fair recruitment process. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and make employment decisions based on skills, experience and suitability for the role.We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010. We are also committed to making reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process where required. Requests can be made by emailing .\nIf this sounds like the kind of role you'd enjoy, we'd love to hear from you.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6939,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Hybrid work"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Asset Management & Funds","Legal Software"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-09T18:22:27Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":33,"reasons":["conf:1","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":148165,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/ils-forward-deployed-counsel","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/ils-forward-deployed-counsel.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-12T01:49:32Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":2485,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3787483},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3787483"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fils-forward-deployed-counsel"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fils-forward-deployed-counsel"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fils-forward-deployed-counsel"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/ils-forward-deployed-counsel\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fils-forward-deployed-counsel"}]}