Dispatch
VP of Legal
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Job Description
About the Role Dispatch is looking for a Head of Legal to own the day-to-day legal function at Dispatch. This is a highly hands-on role for an experienced commercial attorney who is comfortable operat
Key Highlights
- Own the commercial contracting function, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating MSAs, order forms, amendments, statements of work, and multi-year enterprise agreements.
- Lead negotiations with sophisticated enterprise customers and their legal, procurement, privacy, and security teams.
- Develop pragmatic positions on indemnification, limitations of liability, warranties, insurance, intellectual property, termination rights, service levels, and other material commercial terms.
- Partner closely with Sales and company leadership to balance revenue objectives, customer requirements, and legal and business risk.
- Build and maintain contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval thresholds, and fallback positions that allow the company to scale contracting efficiently.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications
- JD from a top law school.
- Active membership in good standing with the bar of at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- 5–15 years of legal experience.
- At least 3 years of in-house experience, including direct ownership of commercial contracting.
- Law firm training in technology transactions, commercial contracts, privacy, or a closely related practice area.
- Direct experience negotiating MSAs, order forms, and multi-year enterprise agreements for a B2B SaaS company.
- Direct experience negotiating DPAs and security addenda, including provisions relating to: breach notification; data residency; subprocessors; data retention and deletion; and AI usage and model-training restrictions.
- breach notification;
- data residency;
- subprocessors;
- data retention and deletion; and
- AI usage and model-training restrictions.
- Experience reviewing and structuring third-party data-sharing arrangements.
- General employment law experience, including offer letters, contractor and consulting agreements, and employee separations.
- Experience determining when specialized legal advice is required and scoping and managing outside counsel.
- Experience working at a company that had fewer than 250 employees when you joined, or that was Series C or earlier.
- Strong business judgment and the ability to distinguish material risk from theoretical risk.
- Ability to operate independently, prioritize competing demands, and provide clear recommendations rather than simply identifying legal issues.
- Experience serving as a company’s first legal hire.
- Experience transitioning significant legal responsibilities from outside counsel to an internal legal function.
- Experience building contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval frameworks, and fallback positions from the ground up.
- Working knowledge of the financial services ecosystem, including wealth managers, asset managers, custodians, and the relationships among them.
- Experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, enterprise security reviews, or related compliance programs.
- Experience evaluating, selecting, or implementing contract lifecycle management software.
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Job Details
Employment Type
Full Time
Experience Level
Executive
Location
CA
Work Mode
Remote
Posted
Today
Country
CA