Head of Legal

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Participate as a member of the leadership team and collaborate directly with the co-founders.

• Oversee all legal functions, which encompass product, privacy, commercial, corporate, employment, intellectual property, regulatory, and litigation matters.

• Guide the company’s stance on emerging technologies for children, artificial intelligence, online child safety, identity verification, and data utilization.

• Identify and secure seals and certifications that are significant to parents and educational institutions.

• Position privacy as a key differentiator for school districts.

• Manage regulatory inquiries and safeguard both the product and the company's reputation.

• Collaborate early with product, engineering, and partnerships teams to create actionable plans with appropriate safeguards.

• Expedite the turnaround of standard contracts within hours and address product inquiries in two days.

• Develop playbooks for data agreements with districts, partnerships, and vendor contracts.

• Lead and expand the in-house legal team while overseeing external legal counsel.

• Incorporate AI into workflows for contracts, data agreements, and privacy reviews.

• Determine which tasks should be handled internally versus by specialists, aiming to minimize external expenditures.

• Take charge of mergers and acquisitions, financing, and board-related matters in collaboration with the CFO.

• Ensure the company is ready for transactions or fundraising efforts on short notice.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience leading legal operations at a consumer technology company with 100 to 1,000 employees.

• Expertise in managing privacy for consumer products, preferably those aimed at children, while adhering to COPPA, FERPA, state student privacy laws, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and AI regulations.

• Proficient in overseeing mergers and acquisitions, financing, and board activities in partnership with a CFO.

• Experience in leading high-performing teams and managing multiple external firms within budget constraints.

• Capability to identify and engage relevant legal specialists as needed.

• Demonstrated ability to reconstruct legal operations utilizing AI and articulate how a small team can effectively compete with larger counterparts.

• Skill in breaking down complex issues into essential decisions and writing clearly and concisely.

• Capability to maintain a constructive position, adapt to evolving facts, and make trust-based decisions.

• A fast-paced, ambitious work ethic with high standards of rigor.

• Over 10 years of experience in law (preferred).

• Familiarity with products aimed at children or student data (preferred).

• Background in strategy consulting, operations, finance, or engineering (preferred).

• Experience enhancing an existing legal function or leading a distributed legal team (preferred).

• Ability to communicate Dojo's narrative effectively to regulators, media, or partners (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote company; open to hiring from any location with significant overlap in working hours with one of the Americas time zones.

• Commitment to equal employment opportunities.

• Provision for disability and special-needs accommodations.

• Geographic salary ranges: $260,000–$325,000 for positions in CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT; $220,000–$275,000 for other U.S. states.