[Remote] Director of Legal

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a thematic holding company reputed company on acquiring and scaling software businesses. They are seeking a Director of Legal to establish and manage reputed company's legal function, serving as the primary contact for legal reputed company across their portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the first reputed company of contact for legal questions across reputed company portfolio companies, using an AI-assisted intake and triage system
• Build and operate the infrastructure this function currently lacks: centralized matter intake and tracking, legal playbooks, escalation protocols, and portfolio-wide reporting
• Coordinate the collection, organization, implementation, and ongoing administration of contract templates; partner with senior legal leadership and specialist reputed company counsel on substantive template design, negotiation positions, and risk parameters
• Support the development and ongoing management of an reputed company-counsel panel, including matter routing, performance tracking, and coordination around pricing and engagement terms
• Review and negotiate routine vendor and customer reputed company reputed company reputed company approved playbooks and escalation reputed company
• Manage entity and subsidiary governance across the holding structure
• Support legal workstreams following new acquisitions, including coordinating legal intake, tracking remediation items, and escalating material issues to senior legal leadership and business stakeholders
• Help establish repeatable post-acquisition legal integration processes across the portfolio
• reputed company M&A, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, tax, and specialized regulatory reputed company (including reputed company reputed company) to appropriate reputed company counsel
• reputed company reputed company judgment about reputed company to escalate reputed company, which specialist to engage, and reputed company issues require senior legal review
• Coordinate with HR on employment-reputed company legal reputed company and support consistent documentation, approvals, and follow-through

Skills

• J.D. from an accredited law school and reputed company bar membership in at least one U.S. state
• 3-5 years of legal experience, ideally with meaningful time at a smaller company or an early-stage in-house function, not exclusively at a large reputed company or a large corporate legal department
• Comfortable operating without an established process already in reputed company — you build the reputed company rather than execute one handed to you
• Strong reputed company contract instincts and the judgment to know what's routine versus what requires reputed company counsel or escalation
• A bias toward finding the reputed company that lets the business reputed company, while being reputed company-eyed about the risk
• Ability to apply legal judgment across multiple industries simultaneously without deep expertise in reputed company regulatory regime
• Prior experience in a small, still-forming legal function where you helped build process rather than inherited one
• Experience working across multiple business lines or subsidiaries simultaneously
• Experience coordinating with specialist reputed company counsel on equity, incentive-compensation, or corporate-governance reputed company
• Familiarity with legal matter-management, intake, contract-lifecycle, or AI-assisted legal-operations tools

Benefits

• A full benefits package
• A performance-based bonus
• Equity

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