Head of Legal

Secureframe is on a mission to help organizations build trust and stay secure at every stage of growth. With increased data breaches and cyberattacks across industries, companies are demanding higher security and compliance standards from their vendors, but getting compliant can take a year or more, slowing a company’s speed-to-market and sales.

Secureframe’s security compliance automation platform enables any organization to have rigorous security and compliance practices without the need to be security experts. Secureframe is a Series B company (read our release) backed by top VCs including Kleiner Perkins, Accomplice, Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI Fund), BoxGroup, Village Global, and many more.

This role is fully remote in the United States.

What you’ll do

• Oversee the company’s commercial functions, negotiating contracts with partners, customers and vendors
• Handle the company’s corporate legal functions, including privacy, intellectual property and employment law
• Drive the company’s legal strategy, effectively assessing risk and enabling effective decision-making across the organization
• Manage external law firms, ensuring project completion and managing legal costs
• Work cross-functionally with stakeholders across teams like Sales, Compliance, Product, Engineering, and Marketing
• Design and build a legal team of both in-house and external resources
• Ensure we’re operationally efficient and effective in negotiating and managing contracts across the organization
• Partner with and advise our People Operations team on processes, procedures, and compliance

Who we’re looking for

• J.D. with bar admission in good standing from any state across the U.S, ideally California
• 8+ years of total experience, including at least 2+ years in-house
• Experience managing an in-house legal function for a growth-stage startup, including managing an in-house team and outside counsel
• Experience overseeing a broad range of legal subject matter, including but not limited to corporate governance, commercial law, & data privacy
• A track record of managing risk while enabling business growth and product experimentation
• Intellectual curiosity and a desire to understand and support product innovation
• Strong ability to turn legalese into language that everyone can understand, especially as it relates to policy and procedure
• Experience as in-house General Counsel is a plus, but not required. We’re open to someone who has held other in-house counsel positions at an early stage company

Secureframe is an equal opportunity employer. We aim to create an environment where every team member at Secureframe feels like they belong so they can have a greater impact on our business and customers. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Collaboration, connection, and having fun with colleagues is an important part of our culture as a remote first company. Therefore, all employees must be able to travel by air to company offsites two to four times per year (reasonable accommodations will be made where appropriate).