Head of Legal

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🏄 California, Connecticut, +3 more states – Remote

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💵 $220k - $325k / year

⏰ Full Time

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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ClassDojo

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📚 Education

💰 $125M Series D on 2022-07

Consulting • Marketing • Education

ClassDojo is a communication platform that connects teachers, families, and students, facilitating better engagement and collaboration in educational settings. It offers a suite of tools that allow teachers to communicate with parents, share classroom updates, and support students' social-emotional learning. The platform also features a portfolio function that allows students to share their learning progress with their families. It's widely popular, used by millions of students and parents, and supports multilingual communication. ClassDojo is focused on building communities within classrooms, providing resources for teachers, and ensuring privacy and security for all its users.

📋 Description

• Sit on the leadership team and work directly with the co-founders • Own all legal functions, including product, privacy, commercial, corporate, employment, IP, regulatory, and litigation • Lead the company’s positions on emerging kids’ technology, AI, online child safety, identity verification, and data use • Identify and obtain seals and certifications important to parents and school districts • Make privacy a differentiator for school districts • Handle regulatory inquiries and protect the product and company reputation • Partner early with product, engineering, and partnerships to develop shippable plans with sensible guardrails • Turn standard contracts around in hours and product questions in two days • Create playbooks for district data agreements, partnerships, and vendor deals • Lead and grow the in-house legal team and manage outside counsel • Integrate AI into contract, data-agreement, and privacy-review workflows • Decide which work belongs in-house versus with specialists and reduce outside spend • Own M&A, financing, and board matters with the CFO • Keep the company prepared for transactions or fundraising on short notice

🎯 Requirements

• Led legal at a consumer tech company of 100 to 1,000 people • Experience owning privacy for a consumer product, ideally one for kids, across COPPA, FERPA, state student privacy laws, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and AI regulations • Comfortable running M&A, financings, and board work alongside a CFO • Experience leading talent-dense teams and managing multiple outside firms to budget • Ability to identify and engage appropriate legal specialists • Rebuilt legal work with AI and can explain how a small team can match a much larger one • Ability to distill complex problems into key decisions and write concisely • Ability to hold a position constructively, adapt when facts change, and make decisions based on trust • Fast-paced, high-ambition approach with rigorous standards • 10+ years in law (bonus) • Experience with child-directed products or student data (bonus) • Background in strategy consulting, operating, finance, or engineering (bonus) • Experience improving an existing legal function or leading a distributed team (bonus) • Ability to communicate Dojo’s story to regulators, reporters, or partners (bonus)

🏖️ Benefits

• Distributed company; hire regardless of location with significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones • Equal employment opportunity • Disability and special-needs accommodations • Geographic compensation ranges: $260,000–$325,000 for CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT; $220,000–$275,000 for all other U.S. states