Head of Legal

What You’ll Do

• Strategic partner and influential contributor to the leadership team, driving high quality risk-weighted decision making
• Identify, research, analyze a wide range of legal topics (e.g. intellectual property, data security, data privacy, labor, corporate structuring) and advise business teams to ensure compliance with laws and regulations
• Draft, redline, and constantly improve the company’s SaaS and services agreements, balancing company growth with protecting corporate interests; lead legal negotiations with related third parties (customers, partners, etc.)
• Collaborate with go-to-market teams, managing a strong pace of deal flow, prioritizing based on commercial opportunity and providing a high degree of visibility/communication
• Work cross-functionally with the People Ops team to adeptly navigate issues impacting employees
• Lead legal aspects of equity fundraising processes, board-level activities (e.g. minutes; UWCs), and employee equity administration
• Build the company’s vendor management procedures, workflow and documentation
• Oversee and maintain corporate-level registrations and licensing
• Coordinate and manage external law firms and resources when specialist counsel is required
• Maintain knowledge of current and pending legal topics impacting the company’s customer base, partners, and the broader mortgage finance ecosystem
• Participate in ad hoc and new initiatives as needed

What you have:

• 10+ years of relevant legal practice is required including at high growth venture-backed businesses
• Experience negotiating B2B SaaS contracts with large financial institutions is required
• JD from an ABA-accredited law school is required
• Prior working knowledge of the mortgage finance industry is a plus
• Prior working knowledge of Carta is a plus

Extras you bring to the table:

• Enthusiastic about building a rapidly scaling vertical software business
• Broad, generalist legal knowledge enabling expeditious problem identification and resolution with a practical business-oriented approach to legal issues
• Comfortable leading negotiations with third party senior counsel
• Self-starter and acting with integrity, urgency and fairness
• Detail-oriented, dynamic and disciplined thinker exercising sound judgment
• Effective at handling high volume of multiple competing priorities
• Excellent interpersonal skills with ability to provide sound, clear legal advice to internal partners

Why join Polly?

• We are attacking a trillion-dollar market with gross inefficiencies and seeking to transform the way an entire industry operates
• We have an experienced leadership team that previously built large and impactful platforms
• Outstanding opportunity for professional growth and upward mobility
• Direct engagement with the decision makers and senior business leaders
• Competitive salaries
• 100% paid medical/vision/dental/disability/life insurance
• Flexible vacation
• Remote environment

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