Care.com is the largest and fastest-growing technology platform for online care services, helping families, businesses, and corporate employees find high-quality care for their kids, pets, parents, and homes. We’re seeking innovative, entrepreneurial, and genuinely nice people to join our collaborative team. If that describes you, we want to hear from you! A career at Care.com offers countless ways to grow and have a real effect on a young, exciting company.

General Description:  

Care.com seeks a highly-motivated Corporate Counsel with experience advising internet services or technology companies. The Corporate Counsel will be an integral member of the Care.com legal team and an essential legal and business partner to internal clients. We are a team of legal experts with excellent judgment and critical-thinking and decision-making skills that understand legal and business dynamics and successfully collaborate with our clients to provide high-quality legal services and practical and balanced advice.               

Responsibilities:

• Work as an effective and collaborative business partner with internal business teams including account, sales, operations, procurement, information security, risk, privacy and compliance, and other stakeholders.
• Draft, negotiate and advise internal business teams on a variety of contractual documents including customer facing agreements, partner and vendor agreements, and associated documents related to privacy and information security. Develop familiarity with standard and fallback positions and ability to pose creative solutions to help meet business needs
• Develop legal strategy for negotiations, clearly and concisely explain terms of contracts to internal clients, present options for negotiations, and negotiate directly with customers, partners and vendors.
• Develop working knowledge of all Care.com business lines and the legal and safety issues associated with them, including technology service offerings..
• With the assistance of outside counsel, identify the unique, and ever-changing regulatory issues related to the Care.com service offerings and develop strategies for compliance.
• Advise the B2B Operations team with regard to legal and safety issues arising from the Care.com provider network of caregiver agencies and W-2 backup caregivers.
• Effectively manage workflow to meet multiple deadlines, as well as the expectations of internal and external clients.
• Assist with creation of new contract templates to support new service offerings and develop streamlined approaches to legal workflows to increase speed and efficiency of service delivery.
• Lead and assist with various legal team initiatives/projects as needed

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of contract law and strategic approaches to contracting for customer, vendor and partner agreements.
• Working knowledge of privacy law and key components of strong information security practices.
• Comprehensive negotiation and drafting skills with an understanding of negotiation strategies and implications of contract language nuances.
• Excellent communication and writing skills.
• Experience advising internet services or technology companies.

• Experience working on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment, delivering practical advice under pressure and operating within ambiguity.

• Ability to assess issues from both legal and business perspectives to clearly define risks, provide solutions, and succinctly articulate positions.
• Team player who works well with others to meet goals and address business needs, but who also has the ability to work autonomously.
• 7+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience (preferably both) with internet or technology companies.