Litigation Counsel

Overview

This role involves providing in-house legal support in a fast-moving environment, handling novel and high-stakes legal matters across multiple areas of law. Responsibilities include building internal processes and systems, drafting and managing litigation workstreams, partnering with outside counsel, and providing legal guidance to cross-functional teams.

The organization is remote-first and has been profitable since 2022.

Responsibilities

• Manage litigation workstreams related to independent contractor classification, including matters relating to unemployment insurance claims and disputes with marketplace users.
• Manage other litigation workstreams, including matters relating to professional negligence and data privacy.
• Partner with internal and outside counsel on high-stakes litigation matters, including drafting responsive pleadings, briefs, and other key documents.
• Work with outside counsel on eDiscovery strategy, including custodial document collection, review, and production.
• Manage 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 (90 Days In)

• Become deeply familiar with pending litigation and investigation matters and take leadership of at least one high-stakes matter, including communicating and coordinating with outside counsel and internal stakeholders.
• Understand internal databases and quickly collect and analyze complex sets of data to support proactive risk mitigation and respond to legal 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) with minimal supervision.
• In at least one matter, partner with outside counsel to develop an eDiscovery plan that minimizes custodial collection and review costs while meeting discovery obligations.
• Proactively and quickly respond to legal guidance requests from business functions with advice that incorporates 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 problems (not just spotting them).
• Ability to take ownership of work and manage projects independently.
• Excellent communication and writing abilities.
• Comfort and skill navigating complexity and ambiguity while working on a lean team.
• Willingness to quickly dive into new and “unfamiliar” legal issues.
• Ability to work under pressure and independently meet tight deadlines.
• Agility and flexibility to take on new tasks and responsibilities as needed in a fast-moving, rapidly scaling, dynamic tech environment.
• 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 and with diverse, global teams.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range: $190,000 - $220,000.
• Discretionary annual bonus (paid on a quarterly basis) and/or equity compensation (eligibility details noted by the employer).

Location

Remote-first role.

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