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Head of Legal

🕒 September 2

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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ScaleOps - Cloud-Native Optimization

11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $15M Series A on 2023-12

Cloud • SaaS • Artificial Intelligence

ScaleOps is a cloud-native optimization platform that focuses on automating real-time resource management for Kubernetes environments. By utilizing intelligent scheduling and automated rightsizing, ScaleOps enables businesses to reduce their Kubernetes costs by up to 80%, while enhancing cluster reliability and performance. Designed with DevOps in mind, ScaleOps allows teams to optimize CPU and memory allocation effortlessly and focus on strategic initiatives rather than manual configurations.

📋 Description

• Own every legal matter at ScaleOps as the first legal hire in the US • Work closely with GTM, Finance, and Executive teams and report directly to the VP of Finance • Own the day-to-day contract lifecycle, including MSAs, order forms, NDAs, partner agreements, reseller contracts, and marketplace contracts for AWS, GCP, and Azure • Partner directly with Sales leadership and account executives on live deals, turn redlines around quickly, unblock deals, and coach representatives • Build and improve contract playbooks, fallback positions, and self-serve legal tooling • Manage outside counsel across jurisdictions • Lead legal workstreams for future financing rounds, including term sheets, definitive documents, diligence, cap table, and board matters • Run legal diligence, negotiation, and integration for acquisitions • Own corporate governance, entity management, equity administration, and board materials • Own the legal side of privacy and data protection programs in partnership with Security • Handle employment law matters across US and international entities with People Ops • Manage IP strategy, including trademarks, open source policy, and protection of ScaleOps IP • Design an AI-native legal function • Evaluate, deploy, and improve AI tools for contract review, diligence, research, and knowledge management • Publish internal playbooks and prompts for AEs, SEs, and Finance

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of relevant experience • Ideally combining top-tier law firm training with in-house experience at a high-growth B2B SaaS or infrastructure company • Deep commercial contracting experience, including negotiation of hundreds of enterprise SaaS MSAs, DPAs, and order forms with Fortune 500 procurement and legal teams • Direct experience running legal workstreams on venture financings (Series B and beyond) • At least one M&A transaction experience, buy-side or sell-side • Strong grounding in US privacy and data protection law, including GDPR and CCPA • Knowledge of SOC 2 and enterprise security requirements • Experience implementing AI tools inside a legal function, such as Harvey, Ironclad AI, Spellbook, Claude, custom LLM workflows, or equivalents • Concrete examples of re-architecting legal workflows around AI • Excellent commercial judgment • Comfort operating as a business partner rather than a gatekeeper • Willingness to work across US and Israel time zones • Willingness to travel to Tel Aviv as needed

🏖️ Benefits

• Ability to work remotely in the United States • Opportunity to work with a high-growth company backed by Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and other leading VCs • AI-native legal function and opportunity to deploy and improve AI tools • Travel to Tel Aviv as needed

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