10 Best Remote Legal Jobs (Hiring Now)

Are you looking to work remotely as a legal professional? In this article, we share the best remote legal jobs that you can apply for.

As remote work becomes the norm for many companies and law firms, it is now possible to work remotely in the legal field. In addition to offering flexible schedules, remote legal jobs can also provide a lucrative and rewarding career path.


Law firms and corporate legal departments all over the world hire remote attorneys and legal counsels to help them with their legal work so they can focus on their core competencies.


A number of corporates hire remote professionals for a range of legal roles, including paralegal assistants, legal counsels, litigation associates, tax counsels, and more.


Typically, in order to work as a counsel, one needs a law degree and a license to practice law. In addition to that, being honest, accurate and having high integrity is also essential for success in this profession.


Apart from that, there are paralegal roles, which are usually more clerical in nature. This may include performing legal duties, from researching to making copies of legal documents. Even though paralegals do not require any legal qualifications, they provide vital support for lawyers.


With a remote legal job, you are able to set your own schedule and schedule your work. Below is a list of remote legal jobs where you can apply immediately.


#1

Remote Litigation Associate

DESCRIPTION

About Us

Burns & Farrey, P.C. was founded 65 years ago to handle litigation matters across New England. We’re providing the next generation of litigation defense solutions and are looking for the right people to join us as we scale.

We rethought the talent acquisition paradigm and are the innovation leaders in our space. We are a technology and remote work first company.

We’re extraordinarily proud of the firm we’ve built so far, having been recognized as one of the Best Law Firms of 2021 in US News, and ranked in Chambers USA and New England Superlawyers. Our people are B&F’s biggest competitive advantage and we’ll continue investing in our partners and people-first culture.

The Challenge

As B&F continues to grow, we need Litigation Associates to champion our clients’ litigation needs and voices and become a conduit of that information to our internal teams here. You’ll help lead the charge as we continue to add clients and rethink how law firms operate.

The Opportunity

We are looking for someone who is detail oriented, passionate about litigation and trial work, and ready to learn. This is a challenging career path but also highly rewarding. Work is done one on one with the help of seasoned trial attorneys.

The Team

Join a scaling, tight-knit firm that’s working directly with innovative partners and thought leaders across various industries and geographies to provide litigation solutions for our clients. We love delivering thoughtful work to our clients and advising our partners on how best to tackle the challenges presented to us.

The Skill Set

  • Candidates must have one (1) to two (2) years’ experience working in a law firm.
  • Candidates must possess excellent academic credentials, as well as strong organizational, research, writing and analytical skills.
  • Law review or top class rank preferred.
  • State or federal clerkship a plus as is admission to the New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Maine or Connecticut bars.
  • The successful candidate will meet with clients, respond to discovery requests, draft motions/supporting memoranda, argue motions, conduct depositions, and second chair trials.

 

LOCATIONS

Remote

#2

Senior Paralegal

DESCRIPTION

About SecurityScorecard

  • Funded by world-class investors including Silver Lake Waterman, Moody’s, Sequoia Capital, GV, Riverwood Capital, and others with over $290 million in funding,
  • SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings and the only service with over 2M+ companies continuously rated.
  • Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 16,000 organizations for enterprise risk management, third-party risk management, board reporting, due diligence, and cyber insurance underwriting.
  • This is done by measuring your and your vendors’ cyber-health by assigning a security rating of “A” through “F” based on outside-in, non-intrusive data.
  • SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors.
  • SecurityScorecard is headquartered in NYC with over 350+ employees globally. Our culture has helped us be recognized by Inc Magazine as a “Best Workplace,” “Best Places to Work in NYC” by Crain’s NY, and one of the 10 hottest SaaS startups in NY for two years in a row.

What you will do

  • SecurityScorecard, Inc. is looking for an energetic, eager, agreeable, organized, detail-oriented, highly-motivated, and good-humored team player with at least 3 years of corporate paralegal and/or legal operations experience to join our growing collaborative Team Legal.
  • This is a unique opportunity to join a dynamic company and be involved in a wide range of legal matters impacting the company.
  • This position will report directly to the Assistant General Counsel, but will work closely with members of other departments to support the company’s corporate, regulatory, and strategic initiatives.
  • Lead implementation and creation of processes and systems to improve the efficiency, automation and value add of Team Legal by facilitating changes and enhancing the ease of getting things done in a responsive and timely manner.
  • Develop effective and meaningful key performance metrics and reports for Team Legal that demonstrate the value proposition of a lean team leveraging technology for productivity and efficiency.
  • Draft, review, negotiate and support customer, vendor, and partner contracts, including contract life-cycle management and support, contract execution and record keeping.
  • Maintain, continuously improve and seek to innovate and develop legal document management systems and information management systems.
  • Work with members of the Legal team on assigned projects and assist with various corporate governance and strategic initiatives.
  • Lead corporate entity and governance management: maintaining global entity structure database, managing foreign qualification compliance, business licenses, and other corporate entity needs.
  • Be proactive in identifying opportunities and areas for improvement and generating action plans, including implementing the same.
  • General administrative and legal support

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent .
  • 3+ years of experience at a large law firm or in-house legal department of a high-growth technology company, preferably a mix of high-growth and publicly traded.
  • Superior project management and organizational skills, with a focus on continuous process improvement.
  • Able to work well under deadlines in a fast-paced environment and perform multiple tasks effectively and concurrently.
  • Detail-oriented, organized, efficient and resourceful with strong follow-through skills.
  • Being a proactive self-starter who communicates often, assesses and anticipates the technology and processes we might need, and drives projects to successful completion.

Additional Qualifications

  • Completion of ABA-approved paralegal program a plus.
  • Knowledge of and experience with JIRA, other contracts lifecycle management systems, and other content management and workflow automation tools.
  • Experience developing workflow strategies and technical solutions for legal teams with high contract volume.
  • Be a truly cross-functional team player by working closely with Revenue, People Operations, Product, Tech/Engineering, Finance, Marketing, and other departments.
  • Enjoy working in a fast-paced, disruptive business.

Keys to success:

  • Eager, energetic and embracing of a fast paced and high-growth environment.
  • Familiarity with legal technology tools (or willingness to learn), including contract management and legal department management tools.
  • A strong sense of ownership and initiative while empowering others to do the same.
  • Experience working in a start-up environment.
  • Ability to work remote effectively and focus on prioritizing properly.

Benefits
We offer a competitive salary, stock options, a comprehensive benefits package, including health and dental insurance, unlimited PTO, parental leave, tuition reimbursements, and much more!

LOCATIONS

Anywhere

#3

Legal Specialist

DESCRIPTION

Description

The primary function of the Legal Assistant is to support the legal team on a variety of contract management, corporate governance, document production and strategic matters.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Work closely with business functions to understand their needs and streamline legal processes. Suggest and develop procedures to increase the legal team’s efficiencies.
  • Gather, prepare and summarize relevant materials for use by attorneys.
  • Assist with all corporate secretarial requirements, secretary certificates, certificates of good standing, certified documents and other corporate documents.
  • Maintain legal entity organizational charts and records.
  • Assist with document management and records retention initiatives.
  • Maintain the legal contracts database.
  • Assist with legal document production. Assist with litigation hold management and other duties as assigned.
  • Keeps manager informed of progress and obstacles related to ongoing
    tasks or projects. Uses written or verbal status reports to ensure that manager is up-to-date and will not be surprised by the status of key activities, actual expenses or end results.
  • Produces clear and complete written reports that meet the needs of the customer. Written reports use words and tone that are appropriate for the intended audience and are produced and distributed in a timely manner.

Requirements:

  • Bachelors Degree, preferred.
  • Two years of college and/or paralegal program certificate preferred.
  • A minimum of 5 years of corporate experience.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with a large, diverse community of employees and contacts.
  • Ability to correctly prioritize, analyze and solve problems quickly.
  • Effective verbal and written communications skills.
  • Strong organizational and follow-up skills and high level of attention to detail.
  • Ability to effectively plan, develop and coordinate multiple projects.
  • Ability to exercise good judgment, initiative and discretion in confidential or sensitive matters.
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office.

LOCATIONS

United States

#4

Tax Counsel

DESCRIPTION

Company Description

  • Square builds common business tools in unconventional ways so more people can start, run, and grow their businesses.
  • When Square started, it was difficult and expensive (or just plain impossible) for some businesses to take credit cards.
  • Square made credit card payments possible for all by turning a mobile phone into a credit card reader.
  • Since then Square has been building an entire business toolkit of both hardware and software products including Square Capital, Square Terminal, Square Payroll, and more.
  • We’re working to find new and better ways to help businesses succeed on their own terms—and we’re looking for people like you to help shape tomorrow at Square.

Job Description

  • Square is looking for an attorney to be a strategic advisor to help support our expansion into new markets and product offerings from a tax perspective.
  • If hired, you will be a liaison between Square’s tax and legal teams and interact with other teams across the Square global organization, including the finance and product teams.
  • This is a great opportunity to join a growing legal team and work on unique domestic and international issues, new market entries and product launches.
  • As we expand our offerings, your ideas and contributions will make an immediate impact. You will report to the Tax Counsel.
  • A creative legal mind and a sense of adventure are all required, as is the ability to work in both structured and unstructured environments.

You will:

  • Assist with tax planning efforts to support expansion and product launches.
  • Support M&A due diligence, planning, execution and post-acquisition integration efforts.
  • Support tax controversy matters, including tax exams and litigation.
  • Perform technical research and analysis on U.S. state, federal and international tax topics, including direct and indirect tax, M&A, tax accounting and product-related tax matters.
  • Support tax and accounting teams in evaluating uncertain tax positions.
  • Prepare memoranda to document technical positions for planning and provision purposes.
  • Support Square’s business lines from a tax perspective, including Seller, Cash App, Capital and Tidal.
  • Perform tax review of third party agreements, including partner and vendor arrangements.
  • Draft, review and maintain inter-company agreements.
  • Review of transfer pricing documentation and policies.
  • Support tax information reporting matters and respond to tax authority requests.
  • Support tax matters related to employee mobility.
  • Assist with special projects, including restructurings, financings, and other operational changes.
  • Monitor tax rule changes, perform analyses and communicate the potential impact to Square to tax and legal teams.
  • Work with our internal product, business, tax, accounting and compliance teams, as well as with external advisors on a broad range of tax planning, reporting, compliance, planning, analysis and documentation efforts.
  • Develop, improve upon and document taxrelated processes.
  • Manage projects with a team-oriented approach.

This role can sit in any of Square’s US offices, or be full-time remote from the continental United States.

Qualifications

You have:

  • 8+ years of relevant strategic and operational tax management experience in large public company tax environment, including time with a law firm, Big 4 accounting firm, or multinational company
  • Knowledge of, and experience applying, U.S. federal, state and local tax principles, and other authorities
  • Proficient in Subchapter C of the Internal Revenue Code
  • Understanding of indirect tax principles, including state and local sales and use tax, VAT, GST and other similar taxes
  • Fluency in translating legal tax concepts into applicable guidance for product, finance and other teams
  • A JD and active membership in at least one state bar
  • Tax LLM preferred
  • Cryptocurrency experience a plus

LOCATIONS

Remote candidates in the continental USA

#5

Corporate Paralegal

DESCRIPTION

About TheGuarantors

Founded by Julien Bonneville, CEO and Robert Schmidt, CRO in 2015, TheGuarantors empowers renters with smarter solutions to take control of their financial future.

We are an innovator and a pioneer in the insurance and technology industry. We have received accolades for our specialty products and excellent customer service.

In the last 3 years, we have achieved 250% year-over-year growth and successfully raised $15M in a Series B. Currently, we are expanding our footprint nationwide.

We are backed by VCs who have also invested in LinkedIn and Slack amongst others.

The Opportunity

We have an immediate opening for a motivated, full-time corporate paralegal. As a paralegal, you will help with corporate, regulatory and compliance work, and serve as internal Corporate Paralegal. You will work directly with the Corporate Counsel and the Director of Finance and Strategy. You will support the Legal Team in compliantly navigating a regulated sector.

This is an excellent opportunity for you if you have interest in corporate legal operations and business law.

Please submit Cover Letter AND Resume. Transcripts would be nice

What You’ll Do Day-to-Day

    • Help with drafting, review, and maintenance of corporate contracts.
    • Help analyze laws and regulations, industry movements and trends.
    • Help develop and keep the Legal Library current.
    • Assist Legal Team with general corporate legal work, including related to employment matters, corporate meeting minutes recording/maintenance, and transaction closing.
    • Conduct legal research and draft memoranda.
    • Provide support with the filing and maintenance of state and federal licenses for insurance products and agents at the firm; manage regulatory operations tracker.

Why We’ll Love You

    • Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
    • Excellent research, writing and communication skills
    • Fast learner
    • Good judgment
    • Strong work ethic
    • Team player

TheGuarantors is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to an inclusive environment for all employees.

Our commitment: We are a collaborative, diverse, and passionate team of professionals. We are dedicated to innovation and empowering our employees.

LOCATIONS

United States

#6

Legal Assistant

DESCRIPTION

Lucid is a research technology (ResTech) platform that provides programmatic access to first-party data. With respondents in more than 100 countries, Lucid enables anyone, in any industry, to survey online audiences and get the answers they need. These answers reveal the sentiments, motivations, and behaviors of target demographics – data that can be used to build business strategies, measure the impact of digital advertising, publish research, and more. Founded in 2010, Lucid is headquartered in New Orleans, LA with offices throughout the US, Europe, and Asia.

The Opportunity

Lucid seeks a Legal Coordinator to help support Lucid’s Legal team. The Legal team works cross-functionally and across multiple geographies, providing advice, support and assistance to Lucid’s various corporate, commercial and transactional initiatives.

Lucid’s Legal Team currently operates out of Dallas, New Orleans, Minneapolis and New York. The successful candidate will ideally be based out of one of these locations, although employment from another location is a consideration. The Legal Coordinator will report into Lucid’s Contracts Director and will serve as the first point of contact for Lucid’s Deal Desk. In addition to administering and managing agreements that flow through the Deal Desk, the Legal Coordinator will work closely with all Legal and Compliance team members, as well as various Sales Teams, to streamline and accelerate deal closure, and work closely with other Lucid departments on privacy and other Legal or Compliance matters. This is a unique opportunity to gain hands on experience in revenue-generating deals, privacy, and a deep understanding of Lucid’s business operations and revenue earning opportunities.

This role is available to candidates living in the US working remotely, or from one of our office locations of New Orleans, NYC, or Dallas.

Responsibilities

  • Organize, upload and maintain document and agreement portals/repositories, such as:
  • Foreign subsidiary documents to foreign subsidiary portal, partnering with Corporate Paralegal.
  • Board and Committee documents to Carta and/or other centralized repository, partnering with Corporate Paralegal.
  • Audit-related documents (including shareholder audit requests), partnering with Accounting team.
  • All sales and vendor contracts, partnering with Legal Coordinator.
  • Other documents, such as corporate, Cyber, trademarks/patents, Privacy, Insurance, ISO 20252, litigation, real estate/leases, People team agreements, policies and templates, etc., partnering with applicable Lucid teams.
  • Arrange for signature for all agreements (working with Legal Coordinator for Deal Desk and Vendor agreements) and ensure storage in the right repositories with appropriate taxonomies.
  • Assist with implementation and ongoing support of contract management system and transfer of all agreements/data and templates into such system.
  • Create taxonomies for all documents to ensure ability to search for and gather metrics.
  • Central point of contact for all documents and portals of a legal and compliance nature.
  • Manage legal team calendars, arrange large group meetings, and other administrative support as directed.

Qualifications

  • 4 year / Bachelor’s Degree (Required)
  • At least 1 year post-university professional experience (Paralegal or Contract experience a plus)
  • Highly proficient in various business software and applications (MS Office, SalesForce, ServiceNow, Docusign, Confluence, etc.)
  • Basic knowledge of contract documentation
  • Excellent communicator (written and verbal), transparent and open to feedback
  • Highly organized, customer focused, innovative and a strong attention to detail
  • Ability to thrive independently in a fast paced, energetic environment and prioritize at times of high-volume with good judgment and problem solving capabilities
  • Paralegal certification is a plus

LOCATIONS

United States

#7

Product and Regulatory Counsel

DESCRIPTION

About Gusto

  • Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams.
  • On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools.
  • Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 200,000 businesses nationwide.
  • Our mission is to create a world where work empowers a better life, and it starts right here at Gusto.
  • That’s why we’re committed to building a collaborative and inclusive workplace, both physically and virtually. Learn more about our Total Rewards philosophy.
  • We are seeking a Product Counsel to join our Product and Commercial, Legal team to support Gusto, focused on building and expanding our insurance and benefits products.
  • This individual will support and grow our mission to create a world where work empowers a better life and to build a better ecosystem for small businesses and their employees.

What it is like to Work with Gusto

Here’s what you’ll do day-to-day:

  • Navigate complex product and regulatory frameworks to design and mature innovative benefits products. This would include products related to group-sponsored health, life, disability, retirement plans (401k), property and casualty (Workers’ Compensation), and tax-advantaged accounts (FSAs, HSAs, commuter benefits, and HRAs). and more.
  • Counsel the product, engineering, and design teams on healthcare, consumer protection, privacy, and intellectual property law as they build out new and existing benefits products. Benefits-related regulations include federal (ERISA, ACA, HIPAA, tax) laws, state laws, and state-level requirements for benefits.
  • Identify dependencies and work cross-functionally with our partnerships, compliance, privacy, security, and commercial teams to create compliant, secure, and scalable benefits product experiences.
  • Look around corners and creatively solve problems for the business as they plan, build, and execute on their product roadmap for our website, our mobile applications, and our Gusto Web Service IaaS offering.
  • Guide and collaborate with our compliance and operations teams as we mature our processes, controls, and documentation related to how we build, offer, sell, and manage our benefits products, especially our brokerage products.
  • Working closely with our compliance and policy teams, keep apprised of emerging healthcare legislation/regulation and help craft company’s responsive product development strategies.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

  • JD degree with 7+ years of combined relevant legal experience in a law firm, government agency, and/or in-house legal department working in the health, insurance, and/or benefits industries.
  • Demonstrated experience in and strong familiarity working with ERISA, ACA, and HIPAA.
  • Experience at a technology company launching products and features and advising on healthcare, consumer protection, privacy and data security, and IP law.
  • Active license to practice law in California, Colorado, or New York, or ability to register in-house.
  • Attention to detail and the ability to follow through in a fast-paced environment.
  • A team player mindset (no job is too big or too small).

LOCATIONS

United States

#8

Senior Managing Counsel, Product

DESCRIPTION

As the first all-in-one virtual venue for live online events, Hopin brings people together in a highly interactive and engaging online experience that feels just like an in-person event, only without the barriers. Whether it’s a 50-person meetup, or a 50,000-person conference—any type of event organizer can host a Hopin event for their attendees, speakers, sponsors, and vendors to convene, learn, and interact face-to-face online. We’re spearheading the innovative technology that is enabling people to gather online like never before.

Our mission is simple: better connections for a better planet.

We believe in events without limits, but events that are sustainable and accessible to everyone—and fun, too! To do this, we need passionate builders and storytellers to join us. Do you love people and technology and the magic that happens when they converge at scale? Do you have the skills and experience we’re looking for to better serve our clients? If so, we’d like to meet. We’ve been recently funded by a16z, General Catalyst, IVP, Accel, DFJ Growth, Northzone, Coatue, Tiger Global, Salesforce Ventures and many other high profile investors.

The Role
This is an exciting high-impact opportunity to counsel and guide Hopin. You can expect interesting and challenging assignments and a collegial work environment. As one of the first members of our legal team, you will help build the foundation of the Hopin Product Legal Team enabling Hopin to meet its ambitious product and business goals. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly adaptable and collaborative team player to join a fast-growing company. We are looking for a self-starting problem-solver who can work collaboratively and autonomously and roll up their sleeves when necessary to get the job done. Priorities and responsibilities for the role may shift given the fluidness of the business and how quickly we are growing. We need team players that want to do something special and help shape the direction of the legal team. This role will be fully remote and report to the Associate General Counsel, Product and Commercial.

Responsibilities

  • Architect and implement from the ground up how the Product Legal Team will operate and support business partners across the entire Hopin Family (to include StreamYard and Boomset to name but a few!)
  • Serve as the first point of contact for legal issues throughout the product development lifecycle and provide practical day to day and strategic advice to the engineering, product, design, marketing, security and platform teams
  • Support the readiness and release of products and features by identifying and driving resolution of issues related to privacy, data security, marketing, competition, intellectual property, and other legal and regulatory areas
  • Oversee our trademark and patent portfolio, together with ownership of our US Export Control & Open Source Compliance Programs.
  • Conduct legal product reviews and maintain an inventory of features, technology, data, and compliance requirements.
  • Understand and stay up to date on US, UK, EU and international laws and regulations related to Hopin’s products and services.
  • Regularly meet with internal teams (e.g. product) to understand strategies, roadmap, and initiatives, and advise on new features, activities, markets, etc., to ensure alignment.
  • Partner with the commercial team to enable drafting, and negotiation of a variety of agreements and terms of service relating to product offerings, integrations, developer tools, third-party software development, open-source software, and other technology and strategic partnerships
  • Develop and deliver a wide variety of relevant training and communications
  • Address a variety of issues of first impression and other special projects as needed, such as overseeing an integration of a new business acquired by Hopin.

About You – What you bring:

  • JD degree (or qualified to practice law in USA or at least one European jurisdiction) and a member in good standing of the local bar association
  • 7-10 years combined full-time experience; in-house experience at a software technology company strongly preferred
  • Experience with communication platform technology, privacy and data protection, content regulation, intellectual property, marketing, and consumer protection – and a willingness to learn
  • Excellent judgment and communication skills, with strong attention to detail
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Management experience strongly desirable, but not essential.
  • Flexible and able to organize, prioritize and complete multiple priorities and projects (internally and externally) in a fast-paced environment
  • Openness to adapting his/her practice in response to a fluid and expanding product roadmap
  • Thrives in an environment where you need to roll up your sleeves and own outcomes.
  • Collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal skills and a good sense of humor
  • Ability to quickly issue-spot and learn quickly to take on challenging new projects with enthusiasm

The Offer

  • Competitive salary
  • Fully remote, global team
  • Flexible schedules
  • Laptop assigned, Mac or Dell (Windows)
  • Health Insurance Support
  • Parental Leave
  • Monthly Wi-Fi stipend
  • $800 USD for Home-Office set up
  • $1500 USD for Learning & Development

LOCATIONS

Anywhere

#9

General Counsel

DESCRIPTION

The future, as we see it, has millions of devices connected to the internet — everything from citywide bike sharing systems to smarter heart monitors to internet-connected eggs to catch turtle poachers. Hologram is here to connect anything to the internet — via our global cellular platform and network available in over 200 countries and territories. The future is connected, and we are connecting it.

We’re looking for General Counsel to serve as the key legal advisor on all major business transactions.

What you’ll do:

  • Ensure that Hologram conducts business in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.
  • Create and improve processes, agreements, and document templates by drawing from your legal knowledge and experience to craft the right document or structure for Hologram
  • Ensure compliance with governmental regulations and manage intellectual property protection
  • Review, draft, and help negotiate all agreements in partnership with the respective departments
    • Serve as a partner to Revenue and Partnerships on contracts including commercial terms, SLAs, liability, etc.
    • Work with Product + Engineering to ensure compliance with privacy and data security matters
    • Support People on routine and unique employee matters
    • Provide Sales with fast-turnaround review of routine documents, including NDAs + MSAs
  • Work with external counsel on debt and equity financing, board measures, IP, regulatory, and other corporate matters
  • Build out a team of 2-4 additional employees over the next 12-24 months

Helpful skills and experience:

  • Highest ethical standards
  • Juris Doctor Degree with a US state bar license
  • 6 years total of broad legal experience in the technology space, including corporate and securities, employment, contract, intellectual property, and tax
    • 2-4 years associate experience in the VC practice of large law firm
    • 2-4 years of experience working in an in-house legal team at a fast-growth tech startup
  • Experience in supporting Product teams and building technology products, mitigating risk and highlighting legal implications of potential new features
  • Experience with global corporations and managing foreign compliance
  • Excellent negotiation skills, with ability to keep complex legal negotiations simple and clear

How we work at Hologram

Hologram is a fun, upbeat, and remote-first team united by our core values of ownership, transparency, and mindfulness. We trust you to do what’s best for our product, customers, and team members and empower you to make the right calls without heavy bureaucracy.

As part of our team, you’ll receive:

  • Competitive, transparent pay and equity. The salary range for this role is $275-310k for an average cost of living city. (For the highest cost-of-living cities like NYC and San Francisco, compensation rises to better meet your costs.)
  • Unlimited paid time off and flexible scheduling
  • 100% coverage of your medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits (and 80% for your family members!)
  • 14 weeks of family leave
  • Unlimited books, e-books, and audiobooks for continuous learning
  • Generous home office setup stipend

LOCATIONS

United States

#10

Legal Counsel

DESCRIPTION

Figma is growing our team of passionate people on a mission to make design accessible to all. Born on the Web, Figma helps entire product teams brainstorm, create, test, and ship better designs, together. From great products to long-lasting companies, we believe that nothing great is made alonecome make with us!

We’re looking for an attorney with experience advising on commercial and technology matters to join our legal team. As a member of a small team, you will help shape the commercial legal function at Figma, collaborating cross-departmentally to close deals and improve processes for scale.

This is a full time role that can be held from one of our US hubs or remotely in the United States.

What you’ll do at Figma:

  • Draft, review, and negotiate agreements with enterprise customers, partnering closely with our sales team
  • Draft, review, and negotiate vendor agreements with suppliers, partnering with relevant stakeholders
  • Develop materials and conduct training sessions on legal forms, processes, and issues
  • Collaborate to design, implement, and improve Figma’s legal policies and procedures to manage legal and business risk on a global scale

Some projects you could work on:

  • Negotiate deals with Figma’s largest customers
  • Help drive legal and go-to-market contracting strategy, including setting and implementing policies on negotiation thresholds and legal and business terms
  • Develop playbooks, processes, and self-serve tools to help scale

We’d love to hear from you if you:

At Figma, one of our values is grow as you go. We believe in hiring smart, curious people who are excited to learn and develop their skills. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the points outlined in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

  • Have a J.D. and are licensed to practice law in at least one state
  • Have experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating enterprise sales agreements
  • Have experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating other technology-related agreements (in-bound supply agreements, integration agreements, referral agreements, joint marketing agreements, etc.)
  • Are collaborative, with strong ability to build relationships, gain credibility, and partner with others
  • Have a strong work ethic, and willingness to run with projects both large and small
  • Are comfortable operating in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment

LOCATIONS

United States