Circle
Circle is an all-in-one community platform designed for creators and brands to build, engage, and monetize their communities. It offers tools for creating immersive courses, organized discussions, and personalized experiences that integrate seamlessly with existing websites and tools. With features like private spaces, member directories, and flexible payment options, Circle empowers users to enhance their community interaction and business models effectively.
Senior Legal Counsel
April 23
Circle
Circle is an all-in-one community platform designed for creators and brands to build, engage, and monetize their communities. It offers tools for creating immersive courses, organized discussions, and personalized experiences that integrate seamlessly with existing websites and tools. With features like private spaces, member directories, and flexible payment options, Circle empowers users to enhance their community interaction and business models effectively.
📋 Description
• Own and manage the full contract lifecycle — draft, review, and maintain foundational commercial documents for our products and services, such as terms of use, product and support policies, and customer contracts and disclosures. • Act as a key point of contact to the Sales, Customer Success, and Customer Support teams for questions arising during the RFP stage, contract negotiation and renewals, customer onboarding, or other changes in the product releases and GTM function that may have implications for the way we interact with our customers. • Help evaluate and implement a contract lifecycle management tool (e.g. Ironclad) to streamline legal operations. • Build scalable and effective legal processes and resources, including delivering training, developing guides/playbooks, and creating new templates. • Help Circle take on new challenges and business initiatives in a thoughtful, compliant, and efficient way. • Support Circle’s privacy program compliance, including maintaining GDPR compliance, and improve the effectiveness of critical privacy compliance processes. • Stay up to date on relevant regulations, standards, and best practices, and help adapt Circle’s governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) program accordingly.
🎯 Requirements
• At least 4-6 years of relevant legal experience, including time spent in-house at startup or growth-stage company, ideally in the tech/SaaS space. • Strong work ethic and team-player mindset, with a willingness to do the job that needs to be done at any given time and adapt as business priorities change and new challenges emerge. • Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with a high level of autonomy and accountability. • Exceptional communication skills (both written and oral) and the ability to explain complex ideas in a succinct and digestible manner. • JD from an accredited law school and admission to the bar in the relevant jurisdiction. • Strong alignment with our values. Find our values on our career page if you haven’t read up on them yet. • You are proficient in English (spoken, written, and reading) at a CEFR Level C2 / ILR Level 5.
🏖️ Benefits
• Fully remote: work from anywhere in the world! • Autonomy and trust to do your job: we care about outcomes over everything else. • Paid time away: all employees are given 35 days of PTO annually. We also offer a paid sabbatical after 5 years. • Generous U.S. benchmarked compensation and startup equity no matter where you are in the world. • Awesome medical coverage with 100% coverage for you and your family, or medical reimbursement options where applicable. • Parental leave for parents expanding their family, or just starting one. • Home office stipend to help you get up and running. • Learning & development stipend to help you level up your professional skills. • Annual bonus potential for roles that don't already receive variable income or commission. • Company retreats: Twice a year, the Circle team gets together for a fully paid company retreat in incredible places around the world! We’ve had past retreats in Colombia, Portugal, and Mexico, with more planned on the horizon.
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