General Counsel

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🌲 Oregon – Remote

🌲 Oregon – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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AutoBidMaster

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2004

🚘 Automotive

📦 Logistics

🏪 Marketplace

Automotive • Logistics • Marketplace

AutoBidMaster is an online auction marketplace that lets buyers bid on and purchase clean and salvage vehicles through 100% online car auctions. The site lists hundreds of thousands of used, wholesale, and repairable cars, trucks, and SUVs, offers tiered membership levels, account registration, and daily auction bidding.

📋 Description

• Serve as AutoBidMaster’s primary in-house legal advisor • Own the company’s legal strategy and drive legal matters through resolution • Oversee Terms & Conditions, customer agreements, e-commerce disclosures, sales documentation, and other transaction-related legal materials • Lead legal strategy for commercial transactions, contracting, and business risk • Advise executive leadership on transactions, contractual rights and obligations, risk allocation, and commercial decisions • Provide legal guidance for new products, services, partnerships, and business initiatives • Establish contracting standards, templates, and processes • Draft, review, and negotiate vendor, partner, technology, service, and insurance contracts • Manage DMV, dealer licensing, consumer protection, and state and federal regulatory requirements • Manage licenses, registrations, corporate filings, entity compliance, corporate entities, resolutions, and corporate documents • Monitor regulatory developments and recommend process, policy, and documentation changes • Resolve escalated customer complaints and disputes • Respond to complaints involving governmental agencies, regulators, consumer organizations, and third parties • Recommend dispute resolution strategies based on legal exposure, cost, and business considerations • Own and manage litigation, arbitration, small claims, lawsuits, and other disputes • Develop and execute litigation strategy, including decisions to defend, pursue, settle, or otherwise resolve matters • Handle litigation and arbitration directly when appropriate and selectively use outside counsel • Maintain ownership of litigation strategy, objectives, deadlines, outcomes, and legal spending • Serve as primary legal advisor to executive leadership and business teams • Conduct legal research and provide written or verbal recommendations • Support other legal and business projects as needed

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar • Multiple state bar admissions are preferred, particularly Florida, Oregon, and Texas • Approximately 8+ years of legal experience preferred, including meaningful experience as a corporate generalist • Prior in-house experience is strongly preferred • Strong experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts and business agreements • Experience with consumer-facing, e-commerce, automotive vehicle sales, dealerships, auctions, marketplaces, technology, or other regulated businesses is preferred • Experience with DMV, dealer licensing, title, or related automotive regulatory matters is a plus • Experience managing customer disputes, regulatory complaints, litigation, arbitration, and outside counsel • Strong business judgment and ability to evaluate both legal and commercial risk • Ability to analyze issues independently, make strategic recommendations, and take ownership of outcomes • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Highly organized and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment • Practical, self-motivated, and comfortable working independently • Hands-on approach and willingness to personally draft documents, conduct research, and manage day-to-day legal matters • Willingness to travel occasionally as needed