General Counsel/Head of Legal - Menlo Ventures : Job Details

Who you are:You have 8+ years of Legal experience under your belt and are looking for your next challenge in a hyper-growth, fast-paced, industry disrupting, SaaS company. You are excited to work with emerging technologies and modern tech stack with a collaborative team, where you will have a direct impact on the customer experience.Does this sound like you? If so, keep reading and apply today!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

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
• Prior working knowledge of the mortgage finance industry is a plus
• Prior working knowledge of Carta is a plus

Why join Polly?

• High Bar of Talent: Polly consistently performs in the top quartile of start-up companies, and we consider the people of Polly the engine helping us achieve success. Many candidates choose Polly because of the collaborative, smart, and fun people that work here. We strive to hire the best to continue to raise that bar, and