Top Legal Jobs in Santa Cruz, CA

Provides enterprise legal leadership and oversees compliance strategy, regulatory risk, governance, audit readiness, investigations, contracting, and executive reporting for a multi-state healthcare organization. Advises senior leadership and the board, translates healthcare regulations into operational guidance, manages outside counsel, and scales the legal and compliance function.

Provides legal support for corporate and commercial matters, including contract drafting, negotiation, confidentiality agreements, regulatory compliance, corporate policies, and document management. The role advises on business practices, mitigates legal risk, develops legal training materials, and collaborates with business teams in a fast-paced, multicultural environment.

Supports litigation teams by evaluating, configuring, and implementing AI and legal technology workflows. Develops prompts, AI-assisted research and drafting processes, litigation analytics solutions, governance frameworks, training materials, and best practices. Collaborates with attorneys, IT, Information Security, and Knowledge Management to improve document analysis, legal research, case preparation, and technology adoption.

Leads legal operations transformation and enablement, including legal technology architecture, AI-enabled workflows, contract lifecycle management, process optimization, metrics, vendor management, change management, and budgeting. Builds scalable contracting infrastructure, improves self-service and legal intake, reduces outside counsel reliance, partners with IT and enterprise teams on technology delivery, and manages legal operations staff while supporting commercial and procurement contracting.

Own attorney and client relationships, coordinate case progress from intake to resolution, provide status updates, remove bottlenecks, and ensure timely, high-quality client communication and case velocity in collaboration with Legal Ops.

Own and scale the company’s global privacy and data protection program. Advise product, engineering, sales, marketing, security, and executives on privacy laws, data transfers, DPAs, AI governance, security commitments, incident response, and regulatory requirements. Manage privacy assessments, data inventories, notices, training, outside counsel, and vendor relationships. Partner with Security and GRC on audits, certifications, breach response, government requests, and customer obligations while building scalable processes and eventually a privacy team.

Leads and builds Tailscale’s global legal function, advising executives and cross-functional teams on corporate governance, product, privacy, data, security, intellectual property, employment, commercial, compliance, and international matters. Establishes legal strategy, processes, systems, and operating models; hires and develops the legal team; manages outside counsel; supports strategic transactions and partnerships; and translates complex legal and regulatory issues into practical business guidance.

Own and negotiate commercial agreements across customers, vendors, partners, marketplaces, technology, data protection, and confidentiality matters. Advise Sales and go-to-market teams on deal structure, risk, and contracting strategy. Build scalable templates, playbooks, approval processes, and self-service resources. Partner with Security, Privacy, Product, Engineering, Finance, and Operations on technology transactions, global matters, revenue considerations, and risk management. Improve contracting efficiency and support broader legal priorities.

Serve as fractional Chief Legal Counsel/General Counsel advising alternative asset firms and family offices on securities law, fund formation, regulatory compliance, contracts, transactions, governance, litigation and vendor relationships. Lead fund structuring, investor negotiations, regulatory responses, training, policy development, and special projects while managing outside counsel and legal budgets across US and international jurisdictions.

Coordinates customer and vendor onboarding, export compliance for international hardware shipments, and review and negotiation of NDAs and Statements of Work. Maintains contract records, agreement trackers, renewal dates, and onboarding workflows while partnering with Corporate Counsel, Sales, Finance, Engineering, OEMs, and vendors. Escalates non-standard legal, compliance, and licensing issues and supports consistent contracting processes across technology reseller engagements.

Provides the company’s primary legal support across corporate, commercial, regulatory, contract, governance, compliance, employment, and risk matters. Advises the CEO and leadership, reviews and negotiates contracts and SLAs, manages statutory filings and corporate records, supports board documentation, coordinates external counsel, and assists HR, Finance, and Procurement with legal issues.

Provide legal support for commercialization and product development of an AI-powered ad tech platform: draft and negotiate commercial agreements, manage IP portfolio and complex IP litigation, advise on AI, data, and privacy matters, counsel product teams on compliance and IP protection, and develop automated legal workflows.

Negotiate delinquent accounts with law firms to secure reduced balances, extended payment terms, or lump-sum settlements. Review legal documents, manage escalated portfolios and client accounts, maintain attorney relationships, meet monthly settlement and compliance goals, and handle high-volume inbound/outbound calls to resolve lawsuits and prevent further legal action.

Provides English-to-Turkish legal translation and editing for judiciary-related materials on an ongoing freelance basis. Responsibilities include accurately applying U.S. legal, judicial, and technical terminology, meeting deadlines, using computer-assisted translation tools, and accepting approximately 10–15 hours of assignments weekly. Applicants must be U.S. citizens and willing to complete security clearance processing, including fingerprinting.

Provides English-to-Polish legal translation and editing for judiciary-related materials on an ongoing, as-needed freelance basis. The role requires native-level Polish and English writing, strong U.S. legal and judicial terminology knowledge, computer-assisted translation experience, exceptional accuracy, organization, and deadline management. Candidates must be U.S. citizens, willing to undergo security clearance processing and fingerprinting, and generally available during Eastern Time weekdays for approximately 10–15 hours weekly.

Reviews AI-generated legal deposition transcripts against audio or video, correcting grammar, punctuation, formatting, terminology, speaker identification, and completeness. Conducts legal terminology research, applies transcription style guidelines, performs live data tagging, and meets deadlines while adapting to evolving AI transcription tools and workflows.

Provide expert legal support for global data center client contracts, focusing on complex commercial leases, triple-net leases, service agreements and gigawatt campus projects. Negotiate and draft contracts, manage contractual risk and compliance, advise leadership, support cross-functional stakeholders worldwide, and develop contract templates and procedures to improve efficiency.

Lead and operationalize responses to subpoenas and eDiscovery demands; manage the end-to-end eDiscovery lifecycle; coordinate internal and external stakeholders; draft and improve policies and processes for customer data requests; monitor legal and regulatory developments; and act as project manager to drive litigation operations and legal tech–driven workflow improvements.

Provide corporate and commercial legal support for strategic partnerships, acquisitions, asset purchases, acqui-hires, and digital-asset transactions. Draft and negotiate commercial and transaction agreements, conduct legal due diligence, advise on regulatory and intellectual property issues, support partner integrations, and develop contracting processes and legal playbooks. Collaborate with business, product, senior stakeholders, and external counsel across multiple jurisdictions.

Corporate Counsel will advise Prosper’s Capital Markets team on structured finance, secured lending, loan sales, servicing, credit facilities, securitizations, debt sales, and bank-partner agreements. Responsibilities include negotiating transaction and commercial documents, managing investor contract obligations, coordinating closings, supporting collections and recoveries, and advising on operational, marketing, and strategic matters. The role requires strong transactional judgment, collaboration, organization, and the ability to manage complex matters independently.

Manage Life360’s patent and trademark portfolios, including prosecution, enforcement, and outside counsel relationships. Advise on intellectual property matters involving patents, trademarks, trade secrets, licensing, open-source software, product development, and commercial transactions. Draft and negotiate IP-related agreements, support M&A due diligence, review marketing materials for compliance, and counsel cross-functional teams on strategic IP risks and opportunities.

Provide freelance English-to-French legal translation and editing for a U.S. government judiciary client. Responsibilities include translating or editing legal content using accurate U.S. legal terminology, applying CAT tools and Trados, maintaining strong organization and communication, and completing on-demand assignments during U.S. Eastern Time hours.

Provide freelance English-to-German legal translation and/or editing services for a U.S. Government judiciary client. Translate legal content using accurate U.S. legal and technical terminology, apply CAT tools and Trados, maintain excellent language quality, and support ongoing, as-needed assignments. Applicants must be native German speakers, U.S. citizens, available during most 9–5 EST hours, and willing to undergo security clearance processing and fingerprinting.

Leads legal operations, corporate governance, entity management, securities compliance, transaction support, contract workflows, legal technology, and compliance initiatives. Oversees legal operations teams, Board and committee materials, corporate records, filings, document systems, and process improvements. Partners with executive leadership, Finance, HR, and external counsel to build scalable legal department processes.

Provide day-to-day corporate and commercial legal support, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating contracts. Manage cross-border matters involving the US, UK, and EU; independently handle routine legal issues; build legal processes; and coordinate external counsel for complex or jurisdiction-specific matters. Provide practical, commercially minded advice to the business.