Senior Corporate Counsel - Litigation & Compliance

Summary

Join ezCater's growing in-house legal team as an experienced legal professional. Reporting to the VP & Assistant General Counsel, you will provide strategic legal advice to cross-functional stakeholders. Responsibilities include developing litigation defense strategies, overseeing dispute data, leading compliance efforts around data privacy and security, advising on employment matters, and monitoring AI compliance. The role requires at least 8 years of experience in-house or at a law firm, significant experience advising on employment issues, and experience with data privacy and security. Preferred qualifications include experience at a technology company and familiarity with the regulatory landscape. ezCater offers a competitive salary, stock options, comprehensive benefits, flexible work arrangements, and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years combined experience in-house or at a well-established law firm, including working directly with senior executives and leading litigation matters from inception through resolution with proven track record of successful outcomes
• Significant time devoted to advising on employment related issues in an in-house capacity, including internal disputes, wage & hour requirements and development of HR policies
• Prior experience or at a minimum an eagerness to quickly gain experience advising on data privacy and security, including building compliant processes for collecting and managing data, customer disclosures, drafting data governance policies and auditing success of internal adherence to the same
• Member in good standing of at least one state bar
• Possess outstanding oral and written communication skills, excellent work ethic and attention to detail, as well as a keen business-focused instincts and talent for creating practically minded strategies while addressing and mitigating legal risks

Responsibilities

• Develop legal defense strategies in a variety of litigation and pre-litigation matters from inception, through discovery and successful outcome
• Identify and manage selected outside counsel where appropriate, as well as taking the lead on resolving matters without the assistance of outside counsel where possible and prudent
• Oversee tracking and reporting all dispute and pre-dispute data, spend and outcomes
• Manage relationships with insurance carriers and claims adjusters on covered claims
• Lead the development of internal processes to quickly identify and ensure escalation of significant issues or complaints that could risk ezCater’s brand or reputation and creation of a playbook for internal response, diffusion and tracking of the same
• Develop and deliver training for internal stakeholders on escalation processes and requirements
• Manage the company’s legally required document preservation practices and development of training for information partners internally to ensure data preservation and enable consistent and reliable collection of company information to support litigation, investigation or other legal proceedings
• Collaborate with ezCater’s internal security and information technology partners to help drive development of mature data governance practices, advising on data retention and deletion practices, as well as collaborating to draft internal policies
• Advise ezCater’s People team on all legal aspects of employment, compensation and benefits practices as well as collaborating on solutions to significant employee relations matters as needed
• Lead compliance efforts around ezCater’s data privacy and security practices, development of policies, related customer communications and disclosures and ensuring the Company develops and adheres to best practices for auditing compliance with state and federal requirements as well as contractual data terms with ezCater Enterprise partners
• Monitor the developing field of Artificial Intelligence and compliance requirements at state and federal levels to advise ezCater on its growing implementation of AI to drive growth and service its customers
• Stay abreast of B2B market dynamics around contracting for AI consent and usage in a SAAS environment
• Ongoing identification, generally, of regulations or regulatory trends, evaluating their applicability to ezCater’s business, analyzing scope and possible product or process changes necessary to maintain or ensure compliance and partnering with internal stakeholders to design and implement such changes
• Assist in the development and implementation of internal controls, policies, procedures, and trainings to support compliance with applicable laws and regulations

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience at a technology-first company or online marketplace that enabled you to develop familiarity with the applicable regulatory landscape would be beneficial
• Confidence in your ability coupled with the humility essential to ask questions, maintain an open mind and partner with business leaders to balance priorities and help achieve the Company’s high-growth goals
• The ideal candidate will be curious, an energetic problem solver, and a true team player.  Someone who is eager to tackle new challenges, and work collaboratively with other stakeholders across the business to help design and drive creative solutions that achieve business outcomes while mitigating legal and business risks

Benefits

• Market salary
• Stock options
• The usual holidays
• All-you-can-eat vacation
• 401K with ezCater match
• Health/dental/FSA
• Long-term disability insurance
• Remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston or Denver offices OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office (you choose!)
• A tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy
• Wicked awesome co-workers
• Cupcakes (and many more goodies) when you’re in one of our offices