General Counsel
Overview:
We’re on the hunt for a General Counsel, so if you’re in the market for a gig that’s both meaningful and a bit of a brain teaser, you’re in luck! Our operations span the globe and touch every state. We have a lot of legal work and some fun problems to solve. We seek someone who has started their career in a firm, ideally litigation, and then moved into the corporate side and spent 10+ years being the person making the decisions about all things legal.
When we ask you to “share one of your proudest moments”, you don’t have to hesitate, and you’re likely already smiling at how you navigated challenges and outsmarted various entities. You don’t perceive yourself merely as someone confined to a desk; rather, you see yourself as a sharp and resourceful legal professional. You aim to be at the forefront when it matters most, reaching your objectives even in the face of challenges, regardless of their perceived size, because your intelligence sets you apart. You’ve been a litigator, an actual litigator, you had to be resourceful and quick on your feet. We want that energy.
You’ll be driving a lot of the legal decisions we make and ultimately be a major part of those decisions. We’re not looking for a legal prep person to dump a legal brief on our desk and leave the decision in our hands. You’ll be a very trusted partner in how we grow and run our organization. We’re looking for someone to help us be as efficient as possible.
Wage:
Up to $250,000/year + relocation package. We are family owned and run, so there's no equity or bonus structure as part of the compensation package.
Benefits:
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision for employees
- Annual review with raise option
- 22 days Paid Time Off accrued annually, and 4 holidays
- After 3 years, PTO increases to 29 days. Employees transition to flexible time off after 5 years with the company—not accrued, not capped, take time off when you want
- The 4 holidays are: New Year’s Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day
- Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- 4% company matching 401(k) with no vesting period
- Quarterly "Work Wherever" allowance
- Use to make your remote work wherever set up more comfortable, for continuing education classes, a plant for your desk, coffee for your coworker, a massage for yourself... really, whatever
- Open concept office with friendly coworkers
- Creative environment where you can make a difference
- No dumb benefits like free dog walking on the weekends that snobby hipster places have to make you feel cool, but mathematically won't cost the company much money because you won't use it
- Trail Mix Bar --- oh yeah
Responsibilities:
- YOU make the decisions. YOU are the legal expert
- Legal planning and execution through creative means to continue to help our business scale
- Be nimble and quick on your feet when legal changes that will impact our business are coming. Plan for this
- Think past compliance to be more business minded and street smart when it comes to our legal
- Manage direct and indirect legal processes and communications as they arise
- Be able to communicate effectively your plans easily to team members outside of the legal space
- Avoid analysis paralysis
Additional Benefits:
- Company sponsored CLE’s to keep your law skills sharp
Requirements:
- Experience as a Litigator, not just working in litigation, but being the litigator
- Law degree with 10+ years of progressive legal experience
- Experience being the legal decision maker in regards to business decisions
- Live in or relocate to the Post Falls, ID area
- Be a good human
Why you might like this job:
You are tired of feeling like you are a cog in the a machine that just keeps turning for the sake of turning, and you want to be in a position that drives positive impact. We aren’t a company of cogs, we are company of dynamic ideation and being able to drive it to fruition. If you’re looking for that type of environment you might have just found the right place. Are we perfect? No. However, we are a culture of always finding ways of making things better, so where there is improvement to be made, we want to make it. It’s called having a product mindset, and it’s what we do.You also like and interesting challenge and can find the natural way forward through your street smarts. You hear it a lot here, but we want you to use your street smarts and outwit those who rely too heavily on theory without actual practice. Those people tend to find themselves in constant states of analysis paralysis, and it’s why you probably left a typical law firm in the past. You were tired of trying to convince people people of the right way forward and running into walls and red tape, so you ventured out to find something different, and honestly it’s probably why you are reading this… and we hope we are what you are looking for.