Director of Legal

Culture Amp · Silicon Valley CA

Company

Culture Amp

Location

Silicon Valley CA

Type

Full Time

Job Description

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. Culture Amp revolutionizes how over 25 million employees across 5,000 companies create a better world of work. As the global platform leader for employee experience, Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, develop high performing teams, and retain talent via cutting-edge research, powerful technology, and the largest employee dataset in the world. The most innovative companies across the globe, such as Salesforce, Unilever, PwC, KIND, SoulCycle, and BigCommerce depend on Culture Amp every day.Culture Amp is backed by 10 years of innovation, leading capital venture funds, and offices in the U.S, U.K, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp is recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and one of the most innovative workplace companies by Fast Company.Learn more about how Culture Amp can help you create a better world of work at cultureamp.com.

About the roleYou're deeply curious and passionate about people & culture but you know your greatest skill is in law. Culture Amp is looking for an exceptional, team-oriented Director-level attorney to assist and support  our junior legal team in managing all legal-related matters involving new sales and customer renewals in APAC, North America and Europe. In addition, you’ll be responsible to driving our Legal Ops function and overseeing the implementation of good process and tech solutions to help scale build efficiency into our already high-performing legal function.You'll be a key member of our Trust & Resilience team and will work closely with our San Francisco, New York and London teams (alongside our Head Office and GC based in Melbourne, Australia) to find legal solutions to real world business problems. This is a special opportunity for the right candidate, with potential for growth. Any experience you have working with SaaS platform customers, especially in the HR space, will come in handy. San Francisco  based attorneys are preferred.Role Responsibilities
  • Help to update and implement legal processes to help scale our business and capture new learnings.
  • Advise and guide multiple levels of our sales and customer success teams through new sales and customer renewals.
  • Draft customer documents, such as terms of use and data protection agreements.
  • Draft internal policies and processes, including helping us reach ISO 27001 certification.
  • Provide commercial deal support to the 4 Contracts Counsel and pitch in when necessary on inbound, outbound and strategic transactions.
  • Remain up-to-date on relevant industry, privacy and tech law to enable you to provide high quality legal advice.
  • Work within a tight-knit team to help progress our company's goals and mission.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Breadth of experience with many areas of law, particularly B2B, enterprise and technology contracts, data privacy, US employment law and some corporate experience
  • Ability to draft documents, terms of use, emails, and anything else precisely and in plain language.
  • The attention to detail you'd expect from a lawyer.
  • A confident, effective and positive advisor who can help our sales teams through difficult customer sales with efficiency and professionalism.
  • A high level of integrity and judgment that is supported by great communication skills.
  • A mindset that enables you to work independently, but also to use good judgment and escalate issues when needed.
  • Ability to develop a nuanced understanding of Culture Amp and our industry, with an eye towards aligning decisions with our bigger picture goals.
  • The flexibility to adapt and thrive in a constantly changing environment as we grow our business, learn more about our customers, and figure out what works best and what doesn’t.
  • Experience working on HR/employment law issues across the US, preferably in a technology company or equivalent environment.
  • Experience with Legal Ops/technology implementation in similar environments for in-house legal teams.
  • Experience working with technology (ideally startups), with at least a couple of years working as an attorney at a highly regarded law firm. Minimum 10+ years PQE.
  • JD required. New York Bar admission in good standing or qualified for and willing to maintain Registered In-House Counsel status in New York.
After 3 months, you'll have...
  • A thorough understanding of what our customers need and how we help solve those problems.
  • Become the key contact for all contracting matters for our San Francisco and New York teams.
  • Come up with ways that we can improve our contracting process with customers.
  • Developed a deeper understanding of international data privacy matters.
  • Built relationships with the other teams at Culture Amp and work cross-functionally to support our company goals.
  • Be busy, but still having fun.
We believe that inclusive businesses are better, not just for “company results”, but for the world. We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.We ensure you have the tools you need to thrive both in and out of work.
  • MacBooks for you to do your best work 
  • Share Options - it’s important to us that everyone is an owner and can share in our success
  • Medical insurance - for you and your family so you can feel safe in these uncertain times
  • Excellent parental leave and in work support program, - for those families to be
  • Flexible working schedule - where we can, let’s make work, work for you
  • Fun and inclusive digital, and (in the future) in-person events
Most importantly, an opportunity to really make a difference in people’s lives.Please keep reading...Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience! #LI-REMOTE
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08/15/2022

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