Director of Legal
Overview:
We’re on the hunt for a Director of Legal, 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 had litigation experience, and then moved into the corporate side and spent 5+ years being the person making the decisions about all things legal. Or maybe you’re just a great person and can show how you’ve morphed legal intelligence into incredible street smarts.
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 street smarts sets you apart. We feel someone with some litigation experience would be the best prepared for this role, not because we like to litigate, but mostly just a guess.
You’ll be driving a lot of the legal decisions we make and ultimately be a major part of those decisions. You also will be tasked with developing Legal Managers for each of your supporting legal product groups. Our legal managers manage 5-10 individual contributor lawyers. You’ll be tasked with breaking down different sections of our legal problems, helping us develop and maintain our vision statements, strategies, tenants, tactics, roadmaps, priorities, and our legal sprints. If that statement sounded like a foreign language to you, this job will not be a good fit for you. If you’re surprised at our size, scope, and that we’re a product organized tech company that has that big of a legal need and that excites you, this job is literally your dream job. This job is not for someone that has been looking and dreaming for that “General Counsel” role. Just trying to be honest and help you find the best path for your career with the least amount of friction and time spent.
Wage:
Up to $200,000/year + relocation 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
- Up to 5% company matching 401(k) with no vesting period
- Quarterly allowance
- Use to make your remote work 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:
- Drive the legal where you want it to go
- Enhance our SaaS model, drive multiple acquisitions a year, help create the business strategy that is going to squash the competition
- Expand, grow, let's take this thing internationally eventually
- Level up! The team, yourself, the company. You'll be helping driving the ship to make us the legal team people never knew existed
- Be nimble and quick on your feet when legal changes that will impact our business are coming. Plan for this
- Liaise, integrate, relate, or however it works with the Government, let's get this going here
- Real Estate? Yes! Negotiate, contract, all that legal jazz
- Think past compliance to be more business minded and street smart when it comes to our legal
- Think through IP Portfolio management, put a plan in place, execute!
- 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:
- Previous litigation experience
- Law degree with 10+ years of progressive legal experience
- Experience being the legal decision maker in regards to business decisions
- 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 an 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.
At the end of the day. business is war. Business is a sport. Business is our sport. Legal should be your sport. We compete with public company giants, but we outmaneuver and outsmart them every day. Does Von Clause mean anything to you? We primarily specialize in the flank. If that means something more than a steak to you….. lets go!