Sift

We’re the leader in Digital Trust & Safety, empowering companies of all sizes to unlock revenue without risk.

Director, Legal Counsel

Full TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2011H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California

Posted

13 days ago

Salary

$250K - $335K / year

Professional Certificate10 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

• Lead our commercial function, focusing on customer and strategic partner agreements, and also ensuring our vendor management processes are appropriate. • Serve as a strategic business partner to review, draft, and negotiate a range of domestic and international commercial agreements, particularly focusing on our SaaS-based online fraud prevention services for enterprise level customers and channel partners (e.g., referral, reseller, distributor, integrated marketplaces). • Help our team develop ways in which to scale our team, whether it is through processes, playbooks, tools, training and AI automation. • Expand into other legal substantive areas initially by managing the relationship with outside counsel (e.g., product/privacy counseling, international expansion, corporate governance, intellectual property, employment). • Have a customer-centric, proactive approach by providing practical, decisive guidance across functions that balances business objectives and legal risk.

Job Requirements

  • JD required. Bar admission and in good standing in at least one US state (bonus if CA or NY)
  • Minimum of 10 years of legal experience, including with B2B SaaS commercial transactions (combination of law firm and in-house preferred)
  • Solid understanding of data protection laws (e.g., GDPR, CCPA/CPRA) as they apply to online data and relate to commercial transactions.
  • Demonstrates a creative mindset and proactive in finding solutions / improving our team and the business generally.
  • Able to pragmatically provide guidance and counsel
  • Experience in online fraud prevention or FinTech a plus.
  • Experience in other substantive legal areas (corporate governance, employment, litigation, intellectual property) is a plus.

Benefits

  • Offers Equity

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