Legal Counsel

Summary

Join our growing legal team as a dynamic and highly motivated legal professional to provide legal support across various areas, including contract negotiation and management, compliance, risk assessment, and corporate governance.

Requirements

• Licensed in any U.S. state but eligible to practice in NY or CA
• 3+ years of commercial legal experience in a law firm or in-house, with a particular focus on the technology sector, SAAS, and privacy
• High ethical standards, excellent judgment, and a high degree of emotional intelligence to build strong collaboration with stakeholders across the team and the business
• Excellent negotiation, drafting, and communication skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage several simultaneous projects under deadline pressure

Responsibilities

• Review, draft, negotiate, and interpret a wide variety of commercial agreements including SaaS agreements, NDAs, vendor contracts, data processing addendums, business associate addendums with clients
• Help draft and update contract templates and order forms, and implement and manage contract lifecycle in collaboration with fellow colleagues on the Legal team
• Assist on other non-commercial, corporate and transactional matters, and monitor changes in legislation, advising on their impact on the business
• Coach sales and customer success team members on strategies for negotiating with customers
• Provide general legal support internally on an as-needed basis

Benefits

• 5-week vacation
• Paid sick leave
• 6 weeks full remote/year
• Paid parental leave (16 weeks)
• MacBook Pro
• Monthly lunch stipend of $300
• Health insurance with up to 100% of premiums paid for employees - Anthem explore our plans
• Retirement: Gorgias contributes to your 401k 100% of the first 3% of deferred W-2 income, 50% of the next 2% of deferred W-2 income
• Get up to $700 to set up your workstation at home (working from home should feel breezy)
• Get up to $2000 of learning material and wellness support per year! This includes $1500 for learning material (such as books, courses, and individual coaching sessions) directly linked to your job scope, as well as a $500 wellness budget
• Every quarter, we organize an online company-wide summit to discuss where we’re going and strengthen social bonds. Once per year we organize offsite team retreats and company retreats!