Corporate Counsel
Convoy is transforming the $800 billion trucking industry, where even 10 years ago, most truck drivers did not have smartphones and paper driver logs were common. In 2015, Convoy launched the digital freight movement with an open and fully connected marketplace for brands and manufacturers to work directly with freight carriers who move truckload shipments throughout the country. This ‘Digital Freight Network’ is powered by machine learning and automation, and supported by a broad, ever-growing set of features that benefit both sides of the marketplace.
We’ve been honored to work with some great companies, such as Unilever, The Home Depot, and Procter & Gamble. We’ve also been backed by world-class investors, including Google, YCombinator, Fidelity, Greylock, Generation IM, Lone Pine, T. Rowe Price, Baillie Gifford and the founders and CEOs of Amazon, Salesforce, eBay, LinkedIn, Expedia, Dropbox, Starbucks, and others. We are proud to have been named a CNBC Disruptor 50 Winner (3x), a Fast Company World Changing Idea, a LinkedIn Top Startup, a Forbes' Best Startup Employer, one of Fortune Magazine's 'Impact 20' list, a best place to work in Washington State, a BloombergNEF Pioneer winner, and more.
This is your opportunity to collaborate with an incredible group of people and help transform the freight industry. Join Convoy and help us transport the world with endless capacity and zero waste.
About the team: We are a sophisticated and scrappy legal team focused on helping the Convoy move quickly and take risks smartly. We both solve the problem at hand and think about how we grow to be 5x, 10x and 100x our current size. We are key contributors supporting a fast growing, pre-IPO unicorn with over 1,000 employees that is backed by some of the best investors in the world. We take the time to understand our businesses and our clients (#KW or Know Why in Convoy values terms). As a result, we are trusted and valued partners with a seat at the table for important decisions. While we are focused on helping Convoy revolutionize the transportation industry, we never miss an opportunity to learn or have fun.
About you:
- You get energy from helping sales and account management teams create value and from being a team member and partner in the business (One Team,#OTin Convoy values terms).
- You love the challenge that comes with supporting high growth sales organizations and disrupting an established industry.
- You build meaningful relationships with external counterparties and internal stakeholders to cooperatively solve complicated problems.
- You independently identify problems and develop and implement creative solutions that move the business forward.
- You’re a creative thinker with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- You’re not afraid to get your hands dirty drafting agreements and partnering with our internal stakeholders to solve problems, big and small.
- You want to grow your skill set by taking ownership of problems and tackling new challenges that might be outside of your comfort zone.
You will:
- Help Convoy create value and manage risk throughout the entire supply chain
- Draft and negotiate agreements with our customers in every industry from consumer goods to food products to auto parts. Our shipper customers tend to be large, often Fortune 100, enterprises.
- Advise sales, business development and account management teams on new offerings, pre-litigation disputes, and strategic business initiatives.
- Support other areas of the business like product, marketing, and procurement.
- Partner with legal colleagues and stakeholders in finance, product, engineering, tax, and other teams on deals and other key company initiatives.
- Develop, implement, and maintain contract templates and other legal processes to drive value and efficiency for the business and the legal department.
We’re looking for someone who:
- Experience working on commercial transactions supporting business-to-business sales or business development organizations in any industry. If you’ve worked in the transportation industry, great! If not, don’t worry, as long as you are excited about revolutionizing the freight industry we’ll bring you along.
- Loves building processes to increase velocity and manage risk at scale.
- The ability to think strategically while managing the details, creatively solve problems, and to make clear recommendations.
- Has experience building and maintaining strong, collaborative relationships across many levels and functions within an organization
- A J.D. degree with membership in at least one state bar, or the equivalent
Benefits:
Employees' wellbeing is top of mind for the Convoy team. Outside of offering excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits, we also offer the following:
- On demand mental and emotional health benefits through Lyra
- On demand primary care through 98.6
- Generous paid time off
- Paid parental leave program
- Fertility benefit solutions via Progyny
- Child-care and adult/elder-care options through Bright Horizons
- Opportunity to join and contribute to one of our Employee Resource Groups
- Ability to make a real world impact!
Convoy is an equal-opportunity employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you’re a passionate team player who wants to have an outsized impact on a diverse and dynamic team, we’d love to hear from you!