Legal Specialist

Summary

Join HubSpot's Legal & Compliance department as a Legal Specialist, providing crucial support to the Go-To-Market (GTM) group and cross-functional teams. You will offer first-line support to Marketing, Partnerships, and GTM teams, handling program initiatives and product launches. Responsibilities include drafting, negotiating, and managing various contracts, optimizing the contract lifecycle, and developing legal processes. You will also contribute to intellectual property protection, law enforcement investigations, M&A activities, and operational improvements. This role requires a law degree or equivalent, at least two years of relevant experience, and strong communication and project management skills. HubSpot offers a flexible work environment and values a strong company culture.

Requirements

• Have a law degree or equivalent qualification
• Have at least 2 years of relevant experience within a Commercial or Corporate Legal role
• Have experience with review of business contracts and feel comfortable running a negotiation process, with management support as needed
• Have project management and superior organizational skills, and are able to handle a broad range of matters and work efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced and transparent environment
• Are able to make and own decisions and explain the rationale for the decision to a curious and empowered business team
• Develop strong relationships based on trust with team members and the business
• Effectively handle high-volume and prioritization of tasks
• Possess strong communication skills, especially via an internal wiki, Slack, Asana, ServiceNow and Zoom

Responsibilities

• Provide first-line support to our Marketing, Partnerships, and Go-to-Market business teams
• Help with program initiatives and product launches, reviewing and maintaining marketing campaigns and updating partnership program materials
• Draft, negotiate, revise, and manage a wide range of marketing, partnership and technology contracts from initial draft through execution and renewal
• Help manage and optimize the contract lifecycle
• Develop and implement playbooks and guidelines to improve legal processes and help maintain business compliance and continuity
• Assist with initiatives to protect and enforce all forms of intellectual property at HubSpot, with an emphasis on trademarks, copyrights, and domain names
• Assist with law enforcement investigations and responses
• Support M&A activity, including due diligence and integration

Preferred Qualifications

• In-house experience working in a high-growth technology company
• Familiarity with Ironclad, DocuSign and Harvey.ai
• Have a growth mindset and are interested in learning quickly
• Are able to identify opportunities for operational improvements, develop recommendations, and support internal business teams to drive meaningful change
• Are passionate about the values in the HubSpot Culture Code

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• In-person onboarding (for full-time Engineering roles)
• In-person events such as HubSpot’s annual PEER week, your Product Group Summit, and other in-person gatherings (for Product team roles)