In-House Counsel

Overview

This role involves serving as in-house legal counsel for a 100% remote organization supporting creators and their audience growth through a connected ecosystem of apps and tools. The organization is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to lead product legal strategy and execution, with a strong focus on privacy, data, AI, compliance, commercial contracts, customer security requirements, and scalable legal support.

A key part of the work is supporting a growing volume of privacy questions, particularly as one newer product, Subscriber Signals, evolves. The role emphasizes building practical, repeatable systems for timely and consistent guidance at scale.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the executive team to lead product legal strategy and execution.
• Provide in-house legal subject matter expertise across:
  • Privacy, data, AI, and compliance
  • Commercial contracts
  • Customer security requirements
  • Scalable legal support for internal teams
• Respond to privacy inquiries by building repeatable systems, intake processes, guidance, and escalation workflows.
• Build and refine scalable legal operations, including:
  • Playbooks
  • Templates
  • Intake processes
  • Self-service guidance
• Vet and support GDPR and data compliance efforts, including a clear process for responding to customer security questionnaires.
• Reduce reliance on outside counsel by determining when specialized outside support is truly needed.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (including Product, Sales, Finance, Security, People Operations, Engineering, and GTM) across the product lifecycle and feature releases.
• Develop a deep understanding of the organization’s products and connected ecosystem, including SparkLoop and Subscriber Signals.
• Prioritize the organization’s biggest legal risks and streamline legal workflows to increase speed, confidence, and self-service.

What to Expect (Timeline)

• First week
  • Learn the business model, current goals, and products.
  • Meet key internal stakeholders and external counsel.
  • Review common legal agreements, privacy questions, and customer security requests to identify risk, opportunity, ambiguity, and recurring work.
• First month
  • Build a “what’s on deck” view of upcoming legal needs.
  • Map recurring privacy support questions, particularly those related to Subscriber Signals.
  • Design a scalable intake, guidance, and escalation system.
  • Establish a clear process for responding to customer security questionnaires.
• First six months
  • Become the primary legal partner for product, engineering, security, and GTM.
  • Create scalable systems (playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service guidance) for recurring privacy, data-use, and compliance questions.
  • Support product lifecycle initiatives with emphasis on Subscriber Signals and the connected ecosystem.
• First year
  • Increase legal maturity across privacy, compliance, product counsel, commercial contracts, and security support.
  • Create durable systems so teams can answer common questions independently while escalating higher-risk matters appropriately.
  • Further reduce reliance on outside counsel for work that can be handled effectively in-house.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in data, compliance, and product legal matters.
• Strong ability to navigate U.S. and European data privacy laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA), including familiarity with data controller vs. processor distinctions and how they affect vendor and product decisions.
• Ability to translate privacy and compliance requirements into scalable playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service guidance.
• Experience supporting customer security questionnaires and partnering effectively with security, sales, product, and engineering teams.
• Familiarity with SOC 2 Type II and the legal, privacy, and customer requirements associated with it, even if you have not directly owned a certification process.
• Understanding of intellectual property law, especially related to brand, content, and software.
• Understanding of commercial contracts; capable of serving as the go-to person for these.
• Clear communicator and trusted advisor who can simplify complexity and help others make informed decisions.
• Experience as in-house counsel at a tech company, or experience serving a tech portfolio at a top-tier firm known for work with startups (e.g., Fenwick & West, Cooley).
• J.D. from an accredited law school in the United States.
• Active member in good standing of a State Bar Association.

Preferred Qualifications

• Not specified.

Compensation & Benefits

• Location-based salary standard: standardized salaries based on position, no matter where you live.
• Compensation level: individual contributor level 4 ($227,000) or level 5 ($252,000).

Additional benefits and perks include:

• Profit sharing
• Equity
• 401k with a 5% match
• Medical premiums covered up to $2,100 per month; dental and vision premiums fully covered
• Health insurance plans through Aetna
• Equipment allowance: $2,000 in your first two years; $1,000 budget every following two years (company-provided laptops issued to every employee; not included in the equipment budget)
• Individual learning and development budget: $3,500/year
• Gender affirming benefits
• Childcare benefit up to $3,000 annually through JOON
• 20 days of paid time off each year
• Paid vacation: after-tax bonus of $1,000 for taking five consecutive days of vacation fully unplugged from work
• 10 paid holidays a year
• Two weeks of paid sick time each year, including mental health and well-being days
• 12 weeks paid parental leave and flexible scheduling in your child’s first year
• Up to six weeks of paid bereavement leave, medical leave, and disaster leave after six months of employment (two weeks of each in your first six months)
• Winter break closure: company closes for a week at the end of December; essential support services remain available
• Four-week, paid sabbatical after five years with the team
• In-person or virtual retreats twice a year

Location

• 100% remote with team members across the globe.
• For this role, candidates must be located in the United States.

Hiring Process

• Recruiter phone screen (30 min)
• Hiring manager interview (45 min)
• Take-home assignment
• Panel interview with cross-functional stakeholders (60 min)

Equal Opportunity

The organization is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity in all forms.