Top Legal Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Lead GoFundMe's global payments legal strategy and advise C-suite on payments, fintech, and financial services matters. Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Risk, and Finance to enable product innovation, regulatory compliance, licensing, and supervisory examinations. Build governance, legal operating models, scalable review processes, and commercial frameworks. Negotiate and counsel on strategic payment partnerships, card/ACH network rules, AML/BSA, KYC/KYB, sanctions, and cross-border regulatory matters to support platform expansion and risk management.

As a Legal Scopist, your responsibilities will include transcribing legal documents, scoping materials for readability, meeting deadlines, maintaining confidentiality, and collaborating with team members to ensure quality work.

Provides practical legal support across commercial contracts, corporate governance, subsidiary management, M&A diligence and integration, IP, insurance, employment matters, compliance, and legal risk management. Reviews and negotiates technology and commercial agreements, maintains corporate records and contract templates, coordinates outside counsel, and advises cross-functional teams. The role also develops AI-enabled contract intake, review, approval, storage, and renewal workflows in a remote-first, multi-subsidiary environment.

Corporate Counsel will draft and negotiate commercial agreements, support US and UK sales teams, manage vendor contracts, advise on product design, compliance, data protection, corporate governance, and contracting models. The role will maintain legal templates and review guides, improve legal processes, and provide practical business-oriented advice across the organization. This is a remote position requiring a JD, state bar membership, and at least two years of legal experience.

Manage a litigation portfolio focused on single-plaintiff consumer finance matters, including FCRA, FDCPA, TCPA, and state consumer protection claims. Supervise outside counsel, support regulatory investigations, conduct legal research, advise business stakeholders on litigation and compliance risks, oversee subpoenas and legal holds, develop risk mitigation strategies, monitor litigation metrics, and provide training. The role requires practical guidance across student loan servicing operations and evolving federal and state legal requirements.

The role involves executing legal processes for sales, negotiating complex agreements, collaborating with multiple internal teams, and improving legal documentation for a cloud-based service company.

As a Contracts Specialist, you will optimize and manage the contracting process, enhancing operational efficiency and facilitating legal communication within the company.

As a Smart Contract Legal Architect, you will translate legal frameworks into Solidity, define rights compliance, and engage with stakeholders in digital rights enforcement.

This role involves delivering high quality legal research services and coordinating with the Research & Information Services team to support client engagements.

The Legal Operations Director will streamline legal processes, oversee legal technology, and enhance operational performance through strategic initiatives and metrics analysis.

The Client Associate is responsible for client communications, administrative support, legal document preparation, case management, and basic legal research while ensuring compliance and confidentiality.

Supports the Legal team with contract organization, data migration to LinkSquares, document and template archiving, shared inbox management, routine inquiries, contract negotiation shadowing, and customer security assessments. The role also assists with privacy compliance and legal operations while collaborating with the General Counsel, Legal Operations Manager, Paralegal, and cross-functional teams in a remote SaaS environment.

Manage and negotiate global vendor agreements for Product & Tech Legal, draft and structure complex commercial and technology contracts (including DPA/security clauses), maintain contract systems and internal legal resources, partner with cross-functional teams, improve workflows, and support ad hoc legal projects.

Leads the regulatory legal function and manages attorneys advising on digital care delivery, pharmacy and laboratory operations, healthcare technology, AI, and FDA-regulated products. Provides strategic counsel to executives, manages legal risk, develops regulatory strategies, and supports global growth. Builds and mentors the legal team while advising on healthcare regulations including telehealth, corporate practice of medicine, pharmacy law, laboratory services, Stark and Anti-Kickback laws, and state and federal standards.

Own Dispatch’s day-to-day legal function as a hands-on commercial attorney. Responsibilities include negotiating enterprise SaaS agreements, MSAs, order forms, DPAs, security addenda, privacy and data-sharing arrangements, employment agreements, vendor contracts, and other operational matters. The role partners with Sales, Product, Engineering, Security, Finance, People, and executives; builds scalable legal templates and playbooks; supports compliance processes; manages outside counsel; and establishes the legal infrastructure for company growth.

Leads commercial, privacy, and product legal functions for a cloud technology company. Drafts and negotiates complex SaaS, partnership, reseller, and technology agreements; advises on global privacy, data protection, AI, intellectual property, and product development issues; develops contracting processes and playbooks; partners with cross-functional teams; and manages, mentors, and develops legal professionals.

Leads litigation, eDiscovery, intellectual property, DMCA, and brand protection operations. Coordinates legal holds, document collections, productions, outside counsel, vendors, trademark and patent administration, copyright enforcement, domain management, and marketplace investigations. Develops scalable workflows, SOPs, dashboards, KPIs, and automation while partnering with Engineering, Security, IT, Product, Marketing, and Customer Experience teams.

Lead GiveWell’s legal function as its primary legal decision-maker, developing legal strategy, overseeing nonprofit compliance, managing contracting, and advising executives and the Board. Build and lead a scalable legal team and modernize legal administration through technology and automation. Provide strategic leadership for Grants Administration, guide complex grant structures, and partner cross-functionally on employment, privacy, security, intellectual property, governance, international expansion, and operational risks.

Lead and scale Dutch's legal function across corporate, regulatory, commercial, product, privacy, employment, litigation, and compliance. Advise the CEO, exec team, and board; manage outside counsel; draft and negotiate commercial agreements; build legal processes and playbooks; support state-by-state regulatory strategy for veterinary telemedicine, pharmacy, and consumer healthcare; oversee governance, financing, and employment matters; enable compliant product launches and expansion into new states.

As a Freelance Attorney with Rocket Lawyer, you will provide legal advice remotely to clients, leveraging your expertise in various legal areas and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Provide strategic employment law advice across multiple jurisdictions; lead complex advisory and contentious employee matters; implement scalable legal solutions; drive cross-functional initiatives; build team knowledge resources and governance; manage external local counsel and oversee complex employment projects.

Part-time legal research intern to read and analyze judicial opinions, verify AI-extracted outputs against source materials, identify errors or edge cases, and collaborate with legal researchers and ML engineers. 10–20 hours/week; ideal for 2L or 3L law students.

Author and verify rigorous multiple-choice legal assessment items for AI benchmarks across multiple legal specialties. Create clear, self-contained questions with one correct answer and nine plausible distractors, classify difficulty, provide structured solution explanations and references, and review/edit questions for legal accuracy and clarity. Work remotely, asynchronously, as an independent contractor, committing 10+ hours weekly.

Build and run the holding companys day-to-day legal function across portfolio companies: intake and triage, contract template management, outside counsel coordination, routine commercial contract negotiation, entity governance, post-acquisition legal integration, and escalation of specialist matters.

Partner with corporate legal departments to design and implement AI-driven workflows and LexisNexis solutions. Conduct demos, trainings, executive briefings, and workshops; advise on AI adoption and governance; identify expansion opportunities; collect client feedback and relay product recommendations. Travel frequently to support client engagements.