Director, Legal Counsel
Sift
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: California • United States
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Salary
💰 $250,000 - $335,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead our commercial function, focusing on customer and strategic partner agreements, and also ensuring our vendor management processes are appropriate.
- Serve as a strategic business partner to review, draft, and negotiate a range of domestic and international commercial agreements, particularly focusing on our SaaS-based online fraud prevention services for enterprise level customers and channel partners (e.g., referral, reseller, distributor, integrated marketplaces).
- Help our team develop ways in which to scale our team, whether it is through processes, playbooks, tools, training and AI automation.
- Expand into other legal substantive areas initially by managing the relationship with outside counsel (e.g., product/privacy counseling, international expansion, corporate governance, intellectual property, employment).
- Have a customer-centric, proactive approach by providing practical, decisive guidance across functions that balances business objectives and legal risk.
Requirements
- JD required. Bar admission and in good standing in at least one US state (bonus if CA or NY)
- Minimum of 10 years of legal experience, including with B2B SaaS commercial transactions (combination of law firm and in-house preferred)
- Solid understanding of data protection laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA/CPRA) as they apply to online data and relate to commercial transactions.
- Demonstrates a creative mindset and proactive in finding solutions / improving our team and the business generally.
- Able to pragmatically provide guidance and counsel
- Experience in online fraud prevention or FinTech a plus.
- Experience in other substantive legal areas (corporate governance, employment, litigation, intellectual property) is a plus.
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
commercial agreementsB2B SaaS transactionsdata protection lawsGDPRCCPAcorporate governanceintellectual propertyemployment lawonline fraud preventionFinTech
Soft Skills
customer-centric approachproactive mindsetcreative problem solvingdecisive guidancepragmatic counsel
Certifications
JDBar admission