Litigation Counsel

Overview

This role is an in-house attorney position focused on managing and responding to litigation and investigative matters in a fast-moving environment. Work will span multiple areas of law, with opportunities to build internal legal processes and systems rather than managing only a routine docket of cases.

Responsibilities

• Manage litigation workstreams related to independent contractor classification, including matters involving unemployment insurance claims and disputes with users of the marketplace.
• Manage other litigation workstreams, including professional negligence and data privacy matters.
• Partner with internal and outside counsel on high-stakes litigation, including drafting responsive pleadings, briefs, and other important documents.
• Work with outside counsel to develop and participate in the company’s eDiscovery strategy, including custodial document collection, review, and production.
• Manage the third-party subpoena response strategy.
• Provide legal guidance to cross-functional teams, including product and operations.
• Support additional legal workstreams as needed.

What success looks like in the first 90 days

• Become deeply familiar with all pending litigation and investigation matters and take leadership of at least one high-stakes matter, including coordinating and communicating with outside counsel and internal stakeholders.
• Develop the ability to quickly collect and analyze complex internal data for proactive risk mitigation and for responding to litigation document requests.
• Fully own the unemployment response workstream, third-party subpoena response process, and a docket of other litigation matters (including a subset of medical malpractice matters), operating independently with minimal supervision.
• Collaborate with outside counsel on at least one eDiscovery plan that minimizes costs for custodial collection and review while meeting discovery obligations.
• Proactively and quickly provide high-quality legal guidance to other business functions, incorporating the business’s risk tolerance.
• Contribute to legal strategy decisions made by the Head of Legal.

Requirements (Need to have)

• JD with at least 5 years of experience
• Bias toward action and solving (not just spotting) problems
• Ability to take ownership and manage projects independently
• Excellent communication and writing abilities
• Comfort and skill navigating complexity and ambiguity while working on a leanly staffed team
• Willingness to quickly dive into new and unfamiliar legal issues
• Ability to work under pressure, autonomously, and meet tight deadlines
• Agility and flexibility to take on new tasks and responsibilities as needed to support the business and legal team in a fast-moving, rapidly scaling, dynamic tech company
• Willingness and ability to engage with and interpret data, especially from unfamiliar sources

Preferred Qualifications (Nice to have)

• Experience handling arbitrations and class actions
• Experience with eDiscovery, including large-scale custodial data collection, review, and production
• Clerkship experience
• Government experience
• Experience working cross-culturally with diverse, global teams

Interview Process

• Application review
• Case study
• Case interview with a member of the Legal team
• Hiring manager interview with the Head of Legal
• Executive interview with the Co-CEO

Compensation & Benefits

Not specified in the provided job description.

Location

Remote-first team (specific location not provided in the job description).