Owner.com

Head of Legal

Owner.com

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: United States

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Salary

💰 $225,000 - $275,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Build and scale Owner’s Legal function as the company’s first full-time legal hire, establishing the frameworks, tooling, and operating norms that enable rapid growth.
  • Serve as strategic DRI on the company’s most sensitive and high-impact matters, including litigation strategy, negotiations, regulatory posture, and complex commercial agreements.
  • Partner closely with Product and Engineering to ensure new products, pricing models, integrations, and financial infrastructure are built with compliance and risk minimization in mind.
  • Design scalable systems across contracting, compliance, employment, corporate governance, privacy, and IP, ensuring clarity, speed, and auditability.
  • Lead Owner’s litigation strategy end-to-end, including outside counsel engagement, negotiation posture, documentation, and executive communication.
  • Proactively identify risk areas across the business and build policies, processes, and internal education to mitigate them before they become issues.
  • Support strategic partnerships/transactions, board matters, fundraising, corporate governance, and investor communications.
  • Establish the legal architecture needed for Owner’s next phase of scale, creating the foundations for a function that can grow alongside the business.
  • Earn deep trust across the organization by combining clarity of judgment with a bias to action, moving fast while elevating Owner’s risk standards.

Requirements

  • 8–10 years of legal experience, ideally with experience in both law firm and in-house environments.
  • A full-stack legal athlete with experience across commercial, corporate, compliance, IP, employment, and litigation management.
  • A builder mentality - excited to design legal systems, implement processes, and establish standards.
  • A proactive operator with a strong bias to action, capable of serving as DRI for mission-critical company priorities.
  • Exceptional judgment and the ability to see around corners, providing not just legal answers but strategic guidance aligned with Owner’s long-term goals.
  • Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where decisions must be made quickly and with incomplete information.
  • Ability to partner closely with product and engineering teams, translating product risks into crisp decisions and enabling rapid innovation.
  • A future leader motivated to scale the Legal team after establishing foundational systems.
Benefits
  • comprehensive health coverage
  • remote-first workplace
  • unlimited PTO - plus extra fun perks!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
litigation strategynegotiationsregulatory compliancecommercial agreementscontractingcorporate governanceprivacy lawintellectual propertyemployment lawrisk management
Soft Skills
strategic guidancejudgmentproactive operationbias to actiontrust buildingclarity of judgmentdecision makingadaptabilitycollaborationleadership