Head of Legal
First Head of Legal to own legal strategy and execution across privacy, compliance, commercial contracts, vendor negotiations, and financings at a fast-growing AI SaaS company.
Responsibilities
- Develop a deep understanding of the data privacy and regulatory landscape impacting Juicebox
- Help make product feature and capability decisions while ensuring regulatory compliance
- Own all legal workflows across the company
- Partner with outside counsel on privacy, regulatory, employment, corporate, and financing matters
- Negotiate and manage data vendor agreements that are critical to our product and business
- Own commercial contract negotiations with customers and support the sales team in driving deals to close
- Lead the legal components of venture financings, corporate governance, and strategic transactions
- Build scalable legal processes, systems, and operating frameworks as the company grows
- Partner closely with product, engineering, sales, and leadership teams to evaluate risk and make practical business decisions
- Serve as a trusted advisor to founders on legal, operational, and strategic matters
Requirements
- 6+ years of legal experience, ideally across both a top law firm and a high-growth technology company
- Experience advising technology companies on data privacy, compliance, and commercial contracts
- Strong understanding of the evolving regulatory landscape surrounding data and privacy
- Experience negotiating complex commercial agreements and vendor contracts
- Familiarity with venture financings, corporate governance, and general corporate matters
- Strong business judgment and the ability to balance legal risk with company growth objectives
- A pragmatic, solutions-oriented approach to problem solving
- High ownership mentality and comfort operating as a team of one
- Excitement about working cross-functionally and being deeply embedded in the day-to-day operations of the business
Nice to Have
- Experience with start-ups or high growth companies
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