Senior Corporate Counsel

About Statusphere

Statusphere is an influencer-marketing technology platform built for enterprise brands to make human-generated content scalable, measurable, and brand-safe across social, retail, and paid media channels. The platform uses AI to automate and orchestrate large-scale creator programs, from sourcing and vetting influencers to fulfillment, compliance, tracking, and rights management.

Brands use Statusphere to drive social SEO, improve product discoverability, and generate measurable sales impact online and in-store. For more information, visit www.joinstatus.com.

About the Role

Statusphere is seeking a Senior Corporate Counsel to serve as the company’s senior day-to-day legal advisor and lead its commercial contracting function.

This attorney will independently manage sophisticated commercial transactions, exercise judgment regarding legal and business risk, and provide clear, commercially grounded recommendations to the COO/CFO and other senior leaders. The role requires an experienced transactional attorney who can assess risk in the context of Statusphere’s contracts, customer relationships, products, revenue model, operating processes, and strategic objectives.

The Senior Corporate Counsel will work closely with the COO/CFO, Sales, Finance, Operations, Product, Security, and Customer Success to move transactions efficiently from commercial alignment through execution. This person must be able to distinguish acceptable commercial risk from material legal exposure, resolve most matters independently within established authority, and recommend a specific path forward rather than merely identifying issues or restating contract language.

The role will manage a meaningful monthly volume of client, agency, vendor, and corporate agreements, including enterprise SaaS and usage-based services agreements, MSAs, SOWs, order forms, NDAs, amendments, technology and vendor agreements, consulting agreements, data-processing agreements, and related documents.

The Senior Corporate Counsel will also provide practical guidance on privacy, data use, intellectual property, creator relationships, content and usage rights, website terms, payments, compliance, and other operational legal matters.

Specialized, novel, jurisdiction-specific, or high-risk matters—including significant corporate, employment, litigation, intellectual-property, privacy, regulatory, financing, or M&A matters—will continue to be handled in partnership with outside counsel. The Senior Corporate Counsel will help identify, frame, coordinate, and manage those matters rather than being expected to serve as the sole subject-matter expert in every legal discipline.

This is a highly visible role with the opportunity to build Statusphere’s in-house legal function and potentially advance into an Associate General Counsel position as the company grows in 2027 and beyond, including through new products, strategic partnerships, acquisitions, or additional lines of business.

The role reports to the COO/CFO.

What You’ll Do

Lead Commercial Contracting

• Draft, review, redline, negotiate, and close sophisticated client, agency, vendor, and strategic-partner agreements.
• Independently manage MSAs, SOWs, order forms, SaaS and usage-based services agreements, NDAs, amendments, data-processing agreements, consulting agreements, and customized commercial contracts.
• Understand and negotiate Statusphere’s integrated commercial model, in which SaaS access, platform credits, usage-based services, creator incentives, processing fees, and related services may be documented within a single agreement and applicable order forms.
• Assume ownership of legal terms after commercial terms are established and move agreements efficiently from initial review through execution.
• Negotiate directly with client legal, procurement, privacy, security, finance, and business teams.
• Provide business stakeholders with concise status updates, clearly framed risks, and the specific decisions required to close.

Exercise Independent Legal and Risk Judgment

• Evaluate legal and commercial risk in the context of Statusphere’s business model, contract value, customer relationship, transaction structure, operational capabilities, and strategic importance.
• Determine whether proposed terms are acceptable, require mitigation, should be rejected, or require executive or outside-counsel escalation.
• Advise on liability caps, indemnification, warranties, intellectual property, content and data rights, confidentiality, privacy, security, insurance, payment terms, termination rights, dispute provisions, and regulatory obligations.
• Identify material contractual commitments and confirm that they are operationally achievable before execution.
• Present the COO/CFO and other senior leaders with a concise assessment of the issue, financial and operational impact, likelihood and severity of risk, available alternatives, and a clear recommended course of action.

Partner with Sales and Finance on Transactions

• Work closely with Sales and the COO/CFO to structure, negotiate, and close enterprise and strategic transactions.
• Advise on contract economics, payment terms, SaaS fees, credits, usage-based services, creator incentives, processing fees, refunds, service commitments, liability exposure, and nonstandard commercial structures.
• Help business teams resolve deal blockers while preserving appropriate legal and financial protections.
• Support accurate handoffs from Sales to Finance, Customer Success, Operations, Product, and other teams.
• Ensure that negotiated contractual commitments are clearly documented, understood, and incorporated into operational processes.

Build a Legal Decision and Approval Framework

• Develop and maintain a legal decision matrix defining approval authority based on contract value, complexity, strategic importance, nonstandard commercial terms, legal risk, financial exposure, and operational impact.
• Establish clear thresholds identifying which matters the Senior Corporate Counsel may approve independently and which require consultation with or approval from the COO/CFO, another executive, or outside counsel.
• Develop preapproved positions, fallback language, escalation triggers, and exception-approval processes that allow contracts to move efficiently while maintaining appropriate controls.
• Align the decision matrix with the company’s broader delegation of authority, financial controls, pricing policies, and risk tolerance.
• Periodically update approval thresholds as Statusphere’s products, contract volume, customer profile, transaction size, and risk appetite evolve.
• Train relevant business stakeholders on contracting authority, approval requirements, negotiation guidelines, and escalation procedures.

Manage Vendor and Consulting Agreements

• Review and negotiate technology, SaaS, data, professional-services, contractor, consulting, marketing, fulfillment, and other vendor agreements.
• Balance operational requirements, speed, cost, flexibility, data protection, and legal risk.
• Identify vendor obligations that require review by Finance, Security, Product, Operations, or other business owners.
• Develop practical approval and escalation standards for higher-value, higher-risk, or strategically important vendor arrangements.

Own Creator and Brand Contracting Frameworks

• Maintain and oversee Creator-Statusphere agreements and Brand-Creator terms used in connection with campaigns.
• Develop and manage client-specific or campaign-specific versions where required.
• Ensure the appropriate terms are deployed for each campaign and that acceptance, version control, and audit records are maintained.
• Advise on creator relationships, content ownership, intellectual property, usage rights, disclosure obligations, platform rules, and campaign compliance.
• Coordinate with Product and Operations to ensure contractual requirements are accurately reflected in platform and campaign workflows.

Advise on Privacy, Product, and Operational Matters

• Maintain and periodically update website Terms and Conditions, Privacy Policies, cookie and consent language, and other customer- or user-facing legal notices.
• Provide practical guidance on privacy, data use, security, artificial intelligence, creator data, customer data, and data-processing arrangements.
• Advise on payments, contracting authority, creator relationships, content rights, product workflows, and other day-to-day operational legal issues.
• Partner with Product, Security, Marketing, and Operations to identify legal implications associated with new features, workflows, integrations, and commercial offerings.
• Engage outside privacy, security, regulatory, or other specialists when matters require deeper subject-matter expertise.

Build Scalable Legal Operations

• Develop and maintain contract templates, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, fallback positions, approval thresholds, and escalation procedures.
• Implement efficient legal intake, review, approval, signature, storage, renewal, and obligation-management processes.
• Maintain a reliable contract repository and improve visibility into contractual obligations, renewal dates, pricing commitments, notice periods, approval history, and material risk positions.
• Establish legal operations metrics, including contract volume, turnaround time, recurring negotiation issues, escalation frequency, outside-counsel usage, and contract exceptions.
• Identify opportunities to automate or streamline routine legal work as contract volume grows.
• Ensure material post-signature obligations are communicated to and owned by the appropriate business functions.

Manage Outside Counsel

• Identify matters requiring specialized, jurisdiction-specific, or high-risk legal support.
• Clearly frame the relevant facts, business objectives, risk questions, and required decisions before engaging outside counsel.
• Manage assignments, scopes, budgets, staffing, timelines, and deliverables for outside legal advisors.
• Translate outside-counsel advice into practical recommendations and action items for the business.
• Coordinate support from corporate, employment, privacy, intellectual-property, litigation, regulatory, financing, and other specialists as appropriate.
• Identify opportunities to bring work in-house over time when doing so would improve speed, consistency, institutional knowledge, or cost efficiency.

Partner Cross-Functionally

• Develop a deep understanding of Statusphere’s customers, creator ecosystem, products, revenue model, deal economics, technology, and operating workflows.
• Build trusted relationships across Sales, Finance, Product, Security, Customer Success, Operations, and executive leadership.
• Provide responsive, practical, service-oriented legal support while maintaining appropriate independence and judgment.
• Perform other duties and strategic projects as assigned.

What We’re Looking For

• 7–10 years of post-J.D. transactional legal experience at a leading law firm, established corporation, high-growth technology company, or a combination of these environments.
• Significant experience independently leading sophisticated commercial transactions from initial review through negotiation, approval, and execution.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise independent legal judgment and make commercially grounded risk recommendations without routine supervision.
• Strong experience negotiating B2B SaaS, technology, usage-based services, agency, data, consulting, vendor, MSA, SOW, NDA, and customized enterprise agreements.
• Experience working directly with senior executives, Sales, Finance, Product, Security, and operational teams.
• Ability to manage significant monthly contract volume while maintaining speed, responsiveness, accuracy, and sound judgment.
• Experience negotiating with sophisticated enterprise counterparties, including legal, procurement, privacy, security, finance, and external-counsel teams.
• Strong understanding of intellectual property, content and data rights, confidentiality, indemnification, limitation of liability, warranties, security, insurance, payment, termination, and dispute provisions.
• Working knowledge of U.S. privacy and data-protection requirements, including CCPA/CPRA, and familiarity with GDPR, data-processing agreements, and SaaS and marketing-technology privacy issues.
• Ability to translate legal issues into concise business guidance, including the nature of the risk, potential impact, available alternatives, and recommended action.
• Strong organizational and project-management skills, with the ability to prioritize competing matters in a fast-moving remote environment.
• A practical, low-ego, service-oriented approach combined with the confidence to make decisions, deliver difficult advice, and escalate appropriately.
• Interest in helping build a legal function and assuming broader responsibility as the company grows.

Education and Bar Admission

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school.
• Active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.

Preferred Experience

• Prior in-house experience, secondment experience, or substantial direct client responsibility in a SaaS, marketing technology, advertising technology, digital media, creator-economy, or enterprise-technology business.
• Experience with agreements combining SaaS access, prepaid credits, usage-based services, creator incentives, processing fees, subscription elements, or other nontraditional technology and services pricing models.
• Experience building contract playbooks, approval matrices, delegations of authority, and scalable legal intake and escalation processes.
• Experience maintaining website terms, privacy notices, consent language, and practical privacy-compliance processes.
• Familiarity with contract-lifecycle management tools, e-signature platforms, structured intake workflows, contract repositories, and legal operations reporting.
• Experience coordinating and managing outside counsel.

Work Environment

This is a full-time, remote U.S. position. The role requires regular collaboration across time zones and occasional travel for company or team meetings. No special physical demands are required.

What You’ll Get

• Competitive base + bonus compensation structure
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible FTO and paid holidays
• 4% 401(k) match
• Work-from-anywhere flexibility
• Paid parental leave
• The opportunity to build Statusphere's first in-house legal function, legal operating model, and commercial contracting framework
• Direct partnership with the COO/CFO and executive leadership on strategic transactions, risk management, and business growth
• A clearly defined path to Associate General Counsel as the Company expands through new products, strategic partnerships, acquisitions, and additional lines of business
• A collaborative, innovative, positive, and team-oriented culture

The salary range for this position is $200,000–$240,000. Compensation decisions are influenced by multiple factors, including but not limited to education, prior experience, training, skills, certifications, market demand, and internal equity.

While this is a remote role, we are prioritizing candidates located in the following states: CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, MI, NJ, NY, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, WI, and VA.