Head of Legal

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the in-house legal subject matter expert, collaborating closely with the executive team.

• Drive the legal strategy and execution for products across privacy, data, AI, compliance, commercial contracts, and customer security needs, ensuring scalable legal support.

• Offer timely and consistent advice on privacy issues, especially concerning Subscriber Signals.

• Create practical and repeatable systems for scalable legal support.

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of Kit, SparkLoop, Subscriber Signals, and the interconnected ecosystem of applications and tools.

• Report directly to the Chief Operating Officer while partnering with leaders in product, sales, finance, and people operations.

• Manage core legal responsibilities in-house and identify when specialized external counsel is necessary.

• Evaluate legal risks, opportunities, ambiguities, and recurring tasks during the onboarding process.

• Map out active data processing, privacy, AI, and other legal initiatives.

• Develop privacy intake, guidance, and escalation systems.

• Collaborate with Sales, Sponsorships, Security, Product, and Engineering teams.

• Oversee GDPR and data compliance vetting processes.

• Create a structured approach for responding to customer security questionnaires.

• Provide legal counsel to product, engineering, security, and go-to-market teams on relevant considerations.

• Develop playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service guidance materials.

• Engage throughout the product lifecycle on initiatives and feature launches.

• Prioritize legal risks, minimize dependence on external counsel, and optimize legal workflows.

• Enhance Kit’s legal maturity regarding privacy, compliance, product counsel, commercial contracts, and security support.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive knowledge in data, compliance, and product legal matters.

• Strong capacity to navigate U.S. and European data privacy regulations, including GDPR and CCPA.

• Familiarity with the distinctions between data controllers and processors.

• Ability to convert privacy and compliance mandates into scalable playbooks, templates, intake processes, and self-service resources.

• Experience in supporting customer security questionnaires.

• Proven experience working alongside security, sales, product, and engineering teams.

• Knowledge of SOC 2 Type II and associated legal, privacy, and customer compliance requirements.

• Understanding of intellectual property law, particularly relating to brand, content, and software.

• Knowledge of commercial contracts.

• Strong communication skills and a trusted-advisor mindset.

• Experience as in-house counsel within a tech company or working with a tech-focused portfolio at a top-tier startup-oriented law firm.

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited U.S. law school.

• Active membership in good standing with a State Bar Association.

• Capability to work from the United States.

• Ability to operate independently as the sole in-house legal expert.

• Capacity to work efficiently, take ownership, show initiative, identify issues, and implement solutions.

🏝️ Benefits

• Profit Sharing

• Kit equity

• 401k with a 5% match

• Up to $2,100 per month toward medical premiums

• Dental and vision premiums fully covered

• Health Insurance plans through Aetna

• $2,000 equipment allowance for the first two years

• $1,000 equipment budget every subsequent two years

• Company-provided laptops

• Individual learning and development budget ($3,500/year)

• Gender-affirming benefits

• Childcare benefit up to $3,000 annually through JOON

• Twenty (20) days of paid time off each year of employment

• After-tax bonus of $1,000 for taking five consecutive days of vacation while fully disengaged from work

• Ten (10) paid holidays annually

• Two weeks of paid sick leave each year, including mental health and well-being days

• Twelve (12) weeks of paid parental leave and flexible scheduling during the child’s first year

• Up to six weeks of paid bereavement leave, medical leave, and disaster leave after six months of employment

• Two weeks of each paid leave during the initial six months

• Winter Break Closure: one week at the end of December

• Four-week paid sabbatical after five years of service

• In-person or virtual team retreats twice a year