General Counsel
| Company | Polly |
|---|---|
| Location | San Francisco, CA, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | JD |
| Experience Level | Expert or higher |
Requirements
- 10+ years of relevant legal practice is required including at high growth venture-backed businesses
- Experience negotiating B2B SaaS contracts with large financial institutions is required
- JD from an ABA-accredited law school is required
Responsibilities
- Strategic partner and influential contributor to the leadership team, driving high quality risk-weighted decision making
- Identify, research, analyze a wide range of legal topics (e.g. intellectual property, data security, data privacy, labor, corporate structuring) and advise business teams to ensure compliance with laws and regulations
- Draft, redline, and constantly improve the company’s SaaS and services agreements, balancing company growth with protecting corporate interests; lead legal negotiations with related third parties (customers, partners, etc.)
- Collaborate with go-to-market teams, managing a strong pace of deal flow, prioritizing based on commercial opportunity and providing a high degree of visibility/communication
- Work cross-functionally with the People Ops team to adeptly navigate issues impacting employees
- Lead legal aspects of equity fundraising processes, board-level activities (e.g. minutes; UWCs), and employee equity administration
- Build the company’s vendor management procedures, workflow and documentation
- Oversee and maintain corporate-level registrations and licensing
- Coordinate and manage external law firms and resources when specialist counsel is required
- Maintain knowledge of current and pending legal topics impacting the company’s customer base, partners, and the broader mortgage finance ecosystem
- Participate in ad hoc and new initiatives as needed
Preferred Qualifications
- Enthusiastic about building a rapidly scaling vertical software business
- Broad, generalist legal knowledge enabling expeditious problem identification and resolution with a practical business-oriented approach to legal issues
- Comfortable leading negotiations with third party senior counsel
- Self-starter and acting with integrity, urgency and fairness
- Detail-oriented, dynamic and disciplined thinker exercising sound judgment
- Effective at handling high volume of multiple competing priorities
- Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to provide sound, clear legal advice to internal partners
- Prior working knowledge of the mortgage finance industry is a plus
- Prior working knowledge of Carta is a plus