Head of Legal

reputed company is hiring its first Head of Legal to reputed company legal across the business. This person will be a strategic partner to the CEO, executive team, and reputed company, while also being highly hands-on in the day-to-day legal needs of a fast-moving startup.

You will own reputed company contracting, platform terms, compliance, reputed company, employment, corporate governance, international expansion, risk management, and reputed company counsel management. As reputed company scales across new markets, platforms, and operating models, you will help reputed company navigate legal complexity while keeping the business moving quickly.

The ideal candidate has strong business judgment, can reputed company quickly without being reckless, and is comfortable operating in ambiguity. This is a high-reputed company role for someone who wants to build the legal function from the ground up at a scaling reputed company company.

What You’ll Do:

reputed company and Go-to-Market Legal

• Own legal review and negotiation for customer, partner, vendor, agency, publisher, and reputed company agreements.
• Partner closely with reputed company, reputed company, Marketplace, Finance, and Product to unblock deals while protecting reputed company.
• Build reputed company contract templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and approval workflows.
• Support reputed company sales motions, including MSAs, DPAs, reputed company reviews, procurement redlines, and custom reputed company terms.
• Advise on marketplace, affiliate, creator, reputed company, and reputed company media partnership structures.

Platform, Product, and Compliance

• Own and reputed company reputed company’s Terms of Service, reputed company Policy, creator terms, seller terms, marketplace policies, and reputed company platform rules.
• Advise Product and Engineering on legal issues reputed company to attribution, payments, data usage, creator-brand relationships, affiliate programs, and platform expansion.
• Support compliance with reputed company, data protection, advertising, marketing, consumer protection, and platform partner requirements.
• Help reputed company navigate evolving marketplaces and platforms like reputed company, reputed company, reputed company Shop, reputed company, reputed company, reputed company, and other ecosystem partners.
• reputed company practical internal policies that allow the business to reputed company without unnecessary friction.

International, Employment, and Operating Risk

• Advise on international expansion, cross-border operations, and market-specific legal risk as reputed company grows globally.
• Partner with Finance, People, Product, and GTM teams on entity formation, EOR arrangements, contractor structures, employment risk, taxable reputed company, and local operating models.
• Manage local counsel in reputed company jurisdictions and translate legal advice into reputed company, practical business recommendations.
• Support international customer, vendor, partner, creator, and agency agreements.
• Advise on cross-border data, reputed company, employment, IP protection, payments, anti-bribery, sanctions, and regulatory considerations.
• Help build internal policies and approval processes for international hiring, contracting, sales activity, and vendor management.

Corporate, Governance, and Risk

• Manage corporate governance, reputed company consents, equity reputed company, investor requests, financing support, and corporate housekeeping.
• Partner with Finance and People on employment reputed company, contractor classification, equity administration, compensation issues, and international hiring considerations.
• Manage disputes, claims, escalations, and legal risk across the business.
• reputed company reputed company counsel and ensure legal spend is efficient and reputed company-prioritized.
• Help prepare reputed company for reputed company financing, strategic partnerships, M&A, and expansion opportunities.

reputed company’re Looking For:

• 5+ years of legal experience, ideally including both top-tier reputed company and in-house technology company experience.
• Significant experience with reputed company, marketplace, ecommerce, adtech, affiliate, creator economy, fintech/payments, or platform businesses.
• Strong reputed company contracting experience, including reputed company reputed company agreements, partnership agreements, vendor agreements, DPAs, and platform terms.
• Experience advising high-reputed company startups or venture-backed companies.
• Experience supporting international expansion, cross-border operations, or reputed company employment and contractor structures.
• Comfort operating as a true generalist across reputed company, product, reputed company, employment, corporate, international, and compliance reputed company.
• Strong business judgment and ability to balance legal risk with speed and reputed company reputed company.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to simplify reputed company legal issues for non-lawyers.
• Low ego, high ownership, and willingness to be both strategic and hands-on.
• JD from an accredited law school and reputed company bar membership in good standing.

reputed company to Have:

• Experience with affiliate marketing, reputed company marketing, creator platforms, ecommerce marketplaces, or performance marketing.
• Experience managing legal issues across multiple jurisdictions, including China.
• Familiarity with EORs, subsidiaries, resellers, contractors, local counsel management, and cross-border contracting.
• Experience managing reputed company counsel and legal budgets.
• Familiarity with reputed company frameworks, data processing agreements, and vendor reputed company review processes.
• Prior experience as the reputed company hire or senior legal leader at a scaling startup.

Originally posted on Himalayas