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Head of Legal
Skills
BusinessLabor And Employment LawLawLeadershipLegal IssuesNegotiationPartnership Agreements
What the job involves
The main requirements, responsibilities and hiring steps.
Requirements
- Active license to practice law in the U.S.
- California bar membership preferred
- 8-15+ years of legal experience spanning commercial tech transactions product counseling compliance and employment law
- Strong track record drafting and negotiating commercial agreements including MSAs NDAs partnership agreements customer contracts and vendor agreements
- Experience advising high-growth SaaS or technology companies on commercial product compliance and operational legal matters
- Familiarity with employment-related disputes including non-competes trade secret matters and competitor-related conflicts
- Ability and willingness to operate across multiple legal domains in a hands-on fast-moving environment
- Experience serving as a lead or sole legal partner or clear readiness to step into such a role
- Highly self-directed resourceful and proactive operating style
- Highly structured and process-oriented with strong prioritization capabilities and sound pragmatic judgment
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous fast-paced high-growth environments
- Exceptional communication skills with clarity discretion and empathy
Nice to have
- Pragmatic
- Self-directed
- Resourceful
- Proactive
- Structured
- Process-oriented
- Ambiguous environment comfort
- Empathetic communicator
Day to day
- Build and own the legal function from the ground up for a fast-growing AI-native SaaS company
- Draft review and negotiate commercial agreements including MSAs NDAs partnership agreements vendor contracts and customer contracts
- Advise leadership on product compliance employment and operational legal issues while translating risk into practical business guidance