Head of Legal

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Dispatch

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11 - 50 employees

💼 Consulting

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

Consulting • Finance • Fintech

Dispatch is a company that provides solutions for financial advisors and fintechs to streamline and integrate client data management. Their platform allows users to onboard clients seamlessly, sync client data in real-time across different tools, and open multiple accounts digitally. Dispatch focuses on creating a smooth workflow for advisors, aggregators, and fintechs to ensure efficient data management. They prioritize security with SOC2 certification and utilize advanced encryption protocols. Dispatch's comprehensive approach is designed to save time and reduce the complexity of managing client data across various tech stacks.

📋 Description

• Own the day-to-day legal function at Dispatch as a hands-on individual contributor • Own commercial contracting, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating MSAs, order forms, amendments, statements of work, and multi-year enterprise agreements • Lead negotiations with enterprise customers and their legal, procurement, privacy, and security teams • Develop positions on indemnification, liability limits, warranties, insurance, intellectual property, termination rights, and service levels • Partner with Sales and company leadership to balance revenue objectives, customer requirements, and legal and business risk • Build contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval thresholds, and fallback positions • Evaluate and implement systems and processes for contract intake, negotiation, approval, execution, and management • Draft and negotiate data processing agreements, privacy terms, and security addenda • Advise on breach notification, data residency, subprocessors, data retention and deletion, customer data usage, and AI-related restrictions • Review and structure third-party data-sharing arrangements • Partner with Product, Engineering, and Security on legal implications of products, integrations, data flows, and AI/ML functionality • Support enterprise security reviews and legal components of SOC 2, ISO 27001, and related compliance processes • Provide practical legal support on routine employment matters and operational agreements • Identify, scope, and manage specialized outside counsel • Transition appropriate work from outside counsel to the internal legal function • Report to the COO and help grow and scale the legal team over time

🎯 Requirements

• JD from a top law school • Active membership in good standing with the bar of at least one U.S. jurisdiction • 5–15 years of legal experience • At least 3 years of in-house experience, including direct ownership of commercial contracting • Law firm training in technology transactions, commercial contracts, privacy, or a closely related practice area • Direct experience negotiating MSAs, order forms, and multi-year enterprise agreements for a B2B SaaS company • Direct experience negotiating DPAs and security addenda, including breach notification, data residency, subprocessors, data retention and deletion, and AI usage and model-training restrictions • Experience reviewing and structuring third-party data-sharing arrangements • General employment law experience, including offer letters, contractor and consulting agreements, and employee separations • Experience determining when specialized legal advice is required and scoping and managing outside counsel • Experience working at a company that had fewer than 250 employees when you joined, or that was Series C or earlier • Strong business judgment and the ability to distinguish material risk from theoretical risk • Ability to operate independently, prioritize competing demands, and provide clear recommendations • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States