Vice President, Legal

What You'll Do:

• Own customer contract strategy by partnering with Sales, RevOps, Customer Success, and Finance to align terms with revenue objectives
• Manage day-to-day contracting operations and the contracts attorney to maintain a 1 to 2 business day turnaround target
• Establish and lead the enterprise compliance program including insurance coverage oversight and risk reporting to the C-suite
• Partner with Information Security to ensure contracts, vendor relationships, and product commitments meet required security standards
• Lead legal strategy and execution for M&A, divestitures, and strategic transactions alongside private equity sponsors and executive leadership
• Assess and manage legal, regulatory, and contractual risk across the organization while providing clear analysis and options to executive leaders
• Direct legal strategy for international expansion including entity formation, cross-border compliance, and multi-jurisdiction employment law
• Personally negotiate high-value or high-risk contracts across customer, vendor, procurement, and partnership agreements
• Adopt AI tools into daily legal workflows and establish an AI governance framework for responsible deployment across the company
• Collaborate with Product and Engineering teams on legal and regulatory considerations for AI-enabled platform features and data commercialization
• Oversee outside counsel relationships, legal spend allocation, and equity administration in partnership with Finance and HR
• Advise on multi-state employment law matters, workplace policy development, intellectual property strategy, and corporate governance
• Mentor and develop team members to expand internal legal capacity ahead of company growth

What You Bring:

• Juris Doctor degree with active bar admission in good standing in at least one US jurisdiction
• Minimum of 12 years of related legal experience including significant in-house experience at a technology or SaaS company
• Demonstrated track record of building efficient in-house legal operations and high-throughput contracting functions
• Proven experience leading M&A transactions, diligence, and integration in a private equity-backed environment
• History of serving as primary legal advisor to executive leadership, boards, and sponsor-level stakeholders
• Experience operating effectively within lean legal teams by leveraging technology, process design, and outside counsel
• Working knowledge of international entity structuring, cross-border compliance, data privacy frameworks, and multi-state employment law
• Proficiency with AI governance, AI-enabled legal tools, and emerging technology regulations
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills tailored for executive and investor audiences

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic thinking to anticipate legal and business risks prior to transactions and set impactful KPIs
• Executive judgment and communication to provide decisive counsel to C-suite and PE sponsors under tight timelines
• Negotiation and deal execution to drive complex commercial agreements, disputes, and M&A transactions to closing
• Resourcefulness and operational leverage to scale team capacity through technology and process design
• Cross-functional leadership to partner with Finance, Product, Engineering, and HR teams seamlessly
• Risk management to exercise sound independent judgment and present clear mitigation options on high-impact matters

Reporting & Supervision

• Direct management of the contracts attorney including workload allocation, development planning, and performance management
• Direct reporting line to the Chief Financial Officer with a weekly operational and risk review cadence
• Periodic touchpoints with the Board of Directors