Compliance Counsel

Summary

Join CookUnity's Legal team as a Regulatory Compliance Attorney and lead regulatory compliance efforts across USDA, FDA, and consumer protection laws. Ensure operations, labeling, and tech platforms meet all requirements by handling internal audits, policy development, and training initiatives. Manage responses to inspections, recalls, and inquiries, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to mitigate legal risks. Draft, negotiate, and review vendor and platform agreements. This role demands a strategic legal professional to drive impact in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate will have a J.D. from an accredited law school, 5–10 years of experience, and knowledge of consumer-tech and food safety law. CookUnity offers competitive compensation and benefits, including health insurance, 401k, unlimited PTO, a 5-year sabbatical, paid family leave, and more.

Requirements

• J.D. from accredited law school; admitted to practice in a U.S. jurisdiction
• 5–10 years experience in-house or with a law firm
• Knowledge of, and significant professional exposure to, regulatory compliance work, including consumer-tech compliance frameworks (e.g., data privacy, marketing law) and food safety law
• Exceptional drafting, communication, and project leadership skills
• Experience handling agency audits, recalls, enforcement actions, and internal investigations

Responsibilities

• Lead USDA and FDA regulatory compliance across manufacturing, labeling, product distribution, and tech platforms
• Support consumer tech compliance—FTC advertising rules, CCPA/CPRA, ADA, consumer protection
• Lead internal audits and investigations; manage policy development and training best practices
• Coordinate responses to regulatory agency inquiries, inspections, recalls, and litigation
• Partner with cross‑functional teams (R&D, Ops, Product, Engineering, FSQA, and People) on regulatory risk mitigation
• Draft, negotiate, and review vendor and platform agreements with compliance implications

Preferred Qualifications

USDA, FDA and/or Data Privacy regulatory experience preferred

Benefits

• Health Insurance coverage
• 401k Plan
• Unlimited PTO
• 5- year Sabbatical: After 5 years with CookUnity, you get a 4-week paid sabbatical
• Paid Family leave
• Compassionate Leave: 3-5 days each time the need arises
• A generous amount of CookUnity credits to enjoy our amazing meals, added to your account, monthly
• Wellness perks: access to fitness subsidies to build a healthy lifestyle
• Personalized Spanish coach
• Awesome opportunity to join a company that is looking to change how we eat and how chefs work!