Vice President, Legal

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New York, NY, USA
In-Office
180K-200K Annually
Expert/Leader
Information Technology • Software
The Role
Leads global legal strategy and advises business units on commercial contracts, financial regulatory compliance, risk management, corporate governance, M&A, employment, privacy, and vendor matters. Partners with senior leadership, Finance, compliance teams, regulators, clients, and outside counsel while developing scalable legal processes, policies, training, and governance frameworks.
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Join TRG Screen: Building World-Class Teams. One Expert at a Time.

Are you ready to be part of a dynamic team at the forefront of subscription spend management innovation?

At TRG Screen, we're not just redefining how organizations manage their subscription expenses – we're shaping the future of the industry. With cutting-edge solutions and a commitment to excellence, we empower businesses around the globe to optimize their subscription investments and drive sustainable growth.

Join us in our mission to revolutionize subscription management and make a meaningful impact on the way businesses access and utilize critical information. At TRG Screen, your talent and ambition will find a home, where opportunities for growth and advancement abound.

About TRG Screen

TRG Screen is the leading provider of market data and subscription management technology and automation solutions, tailored to the unique needs of financial institutions and legal firms. Our integrated suite of solutions includes market data and subscription spend management, usage management, compliance reporting, and comprehensive managed services, which hundreds of clients worldwide use to remove cumbersome and inaccurate manual processes and gain control over market data and subscription costs at scale. For more than 25 years, TRG Screen has enabled businesses who rely on market data to monitor and strategically manage spending and usage of data and information services, including market data, research, software licenses, consulting and other necessary corporate expenses. TRG Screen solutions give decisionmakers full transparency into subscription spend and usage, enabling them to proactively manage subscription costs at scale, conduct more informed vendor negotiations, improve governance, and avoid unnecessary spending on these mission-critical business services. TRG Screen is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Europe and Asia, as well as a 24x7 client support center in Bangalore, India.

TRG Screen is a portfolio company of Vista Equity Partners, one of the world’s largest and most respected private equity firms.

Vice President, Legal

About the Role:

We are seeking an experienced strategic, and ambitious Vice President, Legal to lead and support a broad range of legal initiatives across a dynamic and evolving global business. This role offers a high degree of responsibility and autonomy, along with the opportunity to shape your own development within an agile, fast-growing, and ever-evolving company. This is a high-impact role that blends deep subject matter expertise in financial regulatory matters with broad-based corporate legal experience.

The ideal candidate brings sound judgment, strong negotiation skills, and a proactive, business-oriented mindset. You’ll act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership and work cross-functionally with global teams to provide end-to-end legal support across commercial, regulatory, corporate governance, compliance, employment, and risk domains.

This is a unique opportunity to play a key role in a collaborative team, directly contributing to legal strategy, operational resilience, and scalable corporate frameworks. This is a high-impact role for an attorney who thrives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and is eager to help shape the future of a rapidly growing global organization.

Key Responsibilities:

Legal Support

  • Serve as lead legal advisor to the business units globally.
  • Provide legal guidance on complex commercial and advisory engagements, including drafting and negotiating client contracts, vendor agreements, and project-specific documentation.
  • Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of contract templates, standardized terms, and negotiating playbooks.
  • Partner with internal stakeholders to manage legal risk and ensure business compliance with industry and regulatory standards.

Regulatory & Risk Advisory

  • Advise on a range of regulatory matters including compliance, licensing, examinations, remediation, and risk controls.
  • Collaborate with global regulatory and compliance teams on regulatory inquiries, updates, and policy alignment.
  • Provide strategic counsel to leadership on internal controls, governance, risk management frameworks, HR matters, and vendor oversight.
  • Engage directly with clients and regulators on ongoing compliance obligations and responses to audits or examinations.

Corporate Governance & Compliance

  • Lead on board and executive governance matters, including corporate structuring, director/officer onboarding and offboarding, consents, and conflicts of interest management.
  • Support corporate transactions including M&A, partnerships, financing, and post-closing integration activities.
  • Advise on global employment and privacy law considerations and ongoing corporate compliance.
  • Enhance and scale internal policies, legal operations, and training programs.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Leadership

  • Partner with Finance on cross-border legal and regulatory matters.
  • Manage outside counsel for litigation, regulatory investigations, and special projects.
  • Provide guidance on executive compensation, benefits, and equity matters.
  • Help build scalable, efficient legal processes that align with business goals and regulatory requirements.

Required Qualifications

  • J.D. degree and licensed to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
  • 6–10+ years of legal experience with a combination of law firm and in-house experience preferred.
  • Significant exposure to financial regulatory matters, commercial contracts, software and SaaS customers, enterprise risk management, and corporate governance.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage high-stakes legal work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with a pragmatic and collaborative approach.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience advising senior leadership in a regulated industry such as financial services, software, consulting, or professional services.
  • Familiarity with global regulatory frameworks including financial crimes, vendor oversight, and information security.
  • Strong track record supporting equity or debt transactions, M&A, and employment-related matters.
  • Background managing legal entities and corporate governance across multiple jurisdictions.

What You’ll Bring

  • A proactive, solution-oriented mindset and high degree of business acumen.
  • Ability to synthesize complex legal information into clear, actionable guidance.
  • Confidence to challenge assumptions, raise issues, and support strong decision-making.
  • A passion for excellence, continuous improvement, and working with purpose-driven teams.

Salary Range
$180,000—$200,000 USD

Join TRG Screen and unlock your potential in an environment where innovation thrives, opportunities abound, and your contributions make a difference. We are an equal opportunities employer. We recognise and value the power of diversity in our workplace and are committed to being an employer of choice for everyone. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds. All applications for employment are considered strictly on the basis of merit.
At TRG Screen, we understand that diverse and inclusive teams are not just beneficial, they are essential to our success. We recognize that embracing diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences fosters innovation, enhances problem-solving capabilities, and drives better business outcomes. By cultivating a culture of inclusion where every voice is heard and valued, we empower our world class teams to thrive, excel, and drive positive change.
We are proud of our diverse workforce and are dedicated to creating a safe and welcoming environment for all employees. People from various ethnicities, ages, genders, and abilities are encouraged to apply. 

Privacy Notice for Applicants

TRG Screen is committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal information responsibly. Information you provide during the recruitment process will be collected, processed, and stored in accordance with our Privacy Policy.

We encourage all applicants to review our Privacy Policy to understand how we collect, use, and protect your personal data throughout the recruitment process. Our Privacy Policy is available at: www.trgscreen.com/privacy-policy. 

By submitting an application, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our Privacy Policy.

Skills Required

  • J.D. degree
  • Licensed to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
  • 6-10+ years of legal experience
  • Experience combining law firm and in-house legal work
  • Significant exposure to financial regulatory matters
  • Experience with commercial contracts
  • Experience with software and SaaS customers
  • Experience with enterprise risk management
  • Experience with corporate governance
  • Ability to manage high-stakes legal work in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Experience advising senior leadership in a regulated industry
  • Familiarity with global regulatory frameworks, financial crimes, vendor oversight, and information security
  • Experience supporting equity or debt transactions, M&A, and employment-related matters
  • Experience managing legal entities and corporate governance across multiple jurisdictions
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The Company
HQ: New York, New York
267 Employees
Year Founded: 1998

What We Do

TRG Screen is the leading provider of software used to monitor and manage subscription spend & usage across the entire enterprise. TRG Screen is uniquely positioned to offer the full spectrum of enterprise subscription management capabilities across: ► Spend management – Optimize Spend (inbound licensing) ► Usage management – ResearchMonitor (online resources, applications & terminals) & XMon (data feeds) ► Enquiry & workflow – Quest ► Exchange compliance & reporting – AXON ► Revenue management – INFOmatch (outbound licensing) ► Specialist consulting services, managed services & events TRG Screen is differentiated by its ability to comprehensively monitor both spend on & usage of data and information services including market data, research, software licensing, and other corporate expenses to optimize enterprise subscriptions, for a global client base. TRG Screen’s clients realize immediate ROI and significant long-term cost savings, transparency into their purchased subscriptions, workflow improvements and a higher degree of compliance with their vendor contracts. Our global client base consists of more than 750 financial institutions, law firms, professional services firms and other blue-chip enterprises that jointly manage more than $9.6 billion of subscription spend using TRG Screen’s software solutions. TRG was founded in 1998 by a group of financial technology executives passionate about helping firms manage their high value data subscriptions. TRG acquired Priory Solutions in 2016, Screen Group in 2018, Axon Financial Systems in 2019, Market Data Insights in 2020, Jordan & Jordan's Market Data Reporting (MDR) business in 2021 and Xpansion in 2024 and with these acquisitions is now positioned as the global market leader in the financial, legal, and professional services markets. TRG Screen's product portfolio includes subscription spend, usage, enquiry and compliance solutions. Enterprise Subscriptions Optimized! www.trgscreen.com Twitter: @trgscreen

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