Head of Legal

LiveKit

Head of Legal handling commercial contracts, privacy regulations, and corporate governance at LiveKit. Partnering with multiple teams to drive business objectives while ensuring legal compliance.

Posted 6/23/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $120,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own commercial contracting end to end — customer MSAs, order forms, DPAs, BAAs, vendor agreements, and NDAs — and build the playbooks and templates that let the GTM team move fast
Stand up and run our privacy and data-protection program (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA) for a company built on real-time voice and media data
Be the legal partner to Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering — the person who helps deals close and products ship, on the right side of the risk line
Own corporate and governance work alongside Finance — board consents, equity mechanics, and entity and cap-table hygiene
Set our posture on the things that are specific to us: open-source licensing and IP, AI governance, and telecom/SIP regulatory questions
Manage outside counsel surgically — decide what comes in-house, and keep spend in check

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have been the first (or one of the first) in-house lawyers at a high-growth tech company, or you are a senior commercial counsel ready to own a function
You have deep commercial-contracts experience — enterprise, usage-based, data-heavy — and the judgment to move quickly on risk
You are fluent in privacy and data protection (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and ideally HIPAA)
You are a builder and an operator — comfortable as a team of one, writing the playbook, and saying "yes, and here's how"

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary and equity package
Health, dental, and vision benefits
Flexible vacation policy

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Hard Skills & Tools

commercial contractingGDPRCCPACPRAHIPAAopen-source licensingIP governancetelecom regulationdata protectionrisk management

Soft Skills

judgmentteam playerbuilderoperatorcommunicationnegotiationproblem-solvingadaptabilitycollaborationdecision-making