Senior Legislative and Political Counsel
Instacart
Corporate Counsel
RethinkFirst
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Alabama, Arizona
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Mid-LevelSenior
About the role
- Serve as a trusted legal advisor supporting RethinkFirst’s legal operations and business initiatives
- Review, draft, and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements, including SaaS, Channel, vendor, and privacy contracts
- Counsel business leaders and collaborate with Sales, Information Security, Customer Success, Procurement, and Operations
- Triage and track the end-to-end contract lifecycle: intake, negotiation, execution, archiving, and reporting
- Maintain and enforce legal processes to ensure consistency, efficiency, and compliance
- Act with urgency to meet month-end, quarter-end, and year-end business deadlines
- Lead strategic initiatives, including selection and implementation of the company’s first Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system
- Manage ad hoc legal projects and support broader legal team initiatives
- Develop and maintain training materials for onboarding cross-functional teams (e.g., Sales, CS, etc.)
Requirements
- Juris Doctor (JD) degree from an accredited law school; active bar membership in good standing
- 5+ years of experience practicing law, with at least 2+ years of in-house experience
- Expertise in commercial contracting and corporate law; experience in SaaS or technology sector strongly preferred
- Familiarity with data privacy, intellectual property, and regulatory issues, including HIPAA, FERPA, GDPR
- Ability to integrate AI tools into legal workflows (e.g., contract review automation, compliance analytics, knowledge management)
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and project management skills
- Strong problem-solving orientation with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Positive, proactive mindset with comfort managing ambiguity and building processes from the ground up
- Must reside in one of the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin
