General Counsel

OpenTable, a global leader in restaurant tech and part of Booking Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BKNG), helps more than 60,000 restaurants worldwide fill 1.7 billion seats a year. OpenTable's world-class technology empowers restaurants to focus on what matters most – their team, their guests, and their bottom line – while enabling diners to discover and book the perfect restaurant for every occasion. 

Key Responsibilities

The General Counsel will step into a pivotal moment in OpenTable’s journey, partnering closely with the CEO and executive leadership team to help navigate the company’s next phase of growth and transformation. This role is both strategic and hands-on—perfect for someone who loves to drive business growth while taking full ownership of our legal and compliance needs.  

Get ready to start fast, because in this role you will:

• Be the go-to legal expert, offering practical, business-forward guidance to the executive leadership team.

• Shape company strategy by advising on complex business and operational matters across multiple geographies, products, and partners.

• Ensure compliance in a dynamic regulatory landscape, keeping OpenTable ahead of the curve on emerging laws and policies.

• Strengthen and maintain a global privacy program, ensuring robust protections for customer and business data.

• Protect OpenTable’s intellectual property, including trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, and patents as the company expands into new markets.

• Guide labor and employment matters globally, ensuring best practices that align with our culture and values.

• Partner with OpenTable’s communications team to ensure public statements enhance our brand and minimize legal risk

• Lead and develop the legal function at OpenTable, including managing outside counsel and ensuring cost-effective, high-quality legal services.

• Oversee litigation management, dispute resolution, and risk mitigation strategies.

• Champion OpenTable’s ethics and integrity, fostering a culture of compliance and accountability across the company.

Professional Experience/Qualifications

This position requires a seasoned executive with impeccable strategic and analytical skills, and strong leadership traits. The ideal GC candidate will be intellectually curious and highly collaborative. The candidate will handle challenging situations in a professional and balanced manner and will serve as a mentor, leader, and partner across the organization. 

• 10+ years of experience including stints as a general counsel in a publicly-traded company in consumer tech, experience at an international law firm is a plus

• Strong negotiation skills, particularly in technology agreements, SaaS contracts, licensing, and platform integrations.

• Deep experience in legal domains such as labor and employment, global regulatory affairs, intellectual property, strategic partnerships, product counseling, data privacy, cybersecurity, and AI governance.

• A strategic approach with the ability to balance legal risk with business opportunity.

• Proven track record of building and leading legal teams in a fast-growing, multi-jurisdictional business.

• Experience with dispute resolution, including litigation and customer disputes coupled with a proactive approach when they arise 

• A builder’s attitude, capable of designing and implementing legal, compliance, and risk frameworks that support the company’s evolving needs.

• The ability to translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance for business leaders.

• A commitment to fostering diversity, belonging, and inclusion across the organization.

Benefits and Perks

• Work from (almost) anywhere for up to 20 days per year

• Focus on mental health and well-being:

  • Company-paid therapy sessions through SpringHealth

  • Company-paid subscription to HeadSpace

  • Company-wide week off a year - the whole team fully recharges (and returns without a pile-up of work!)

• No meeting Fridays

• Paid parental leave

• Generous paid vacation + time off for your birthday

• Paid volunteer time

• Focus on your career growth:

  • Development Dollars

  • Leadership development

  • Access to thousands of on-demand e-learnings

• Travel Discounts

• Employee Resource Groups

• Free lunch 2 days per week

• Convenient downtown SF office location close to the Montgomery MUNI and BART stations. 

• Building amenities, such as a gym, dog policy, & bike parking

Note for MA applicants: It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

There are a variety of factors that go into determining a salary range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data, geographic location, and years of experience sought/required. The range for this remote United States based role is $300,000-$350,000.

In addition to a competitive base salary, roles are eligible for additional compensation and benefits including: annual cash bonus, equity grant; health benefits; flexible spending account; retirement benefits; life insurance; paid time off (including PTO, paid sick leave, medical leave, bereavement leave, floating holidays and paid holidays); and parental leave and benefits.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At OpenTable, we aspire to be a workplace that fosters inclusion and reflects the diverse communities we serve. Hiring people with different backgrounds and perspectives is critical to innovation and to how we deliver great experiences for our users, partners, and teams. We strive to be an open and welcoming environment so that no matter who you are, you can be yourself.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform job responsibilities, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation(s).