Vice President, Legal

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🔥 13 hours ago

🦬 Montana – Remote

🦬 Montana – Remote

💵 $180k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Vice President

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Submittable

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51 - 200 employees

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🌍 Social Impact

Consulting • Marketing • Social Impact

Submittable is an easy-to-use, powerful social impact platform designed for organizations of any size, including companies and foundations. It enables teams to come together to make better decisions and maximize their social impact by facilitating the collection of applications, managing review teams, awarding funds, and reporting on results—all within a single platform.

📋 Description

• Own and oversee the legal function, setting strategy, priorities, and standards • Build, manage, and mentor the legal team, including hiring, workload distribution, and professional development • Serve as the primary resource on data privacy and security law, including policy development and incident response • Lead negotiation of customer contracts, including MSAs, order forms, DPAs, and enterprise procurement paperwork • Advise Product and Engineering on intellectual property matters, including IP ownership, licensing, open-source usage, and proprietary technology protection • Partner with Sales and Revenue Operations on contracting playbooks, standard terms, and approval thresholds • Manage outside counsel relationships and legal spend across litigation, IP, and specialty areas • Advise executive leadership on corporate governance, risk, and compliance • Oversee employment law matters with People/HR, including policy review and workplace investigations • Monitor regulatory and legislative developments affecting SaaS, data privacy, artificial intelligence, and served sectors • Own contract lifecycle management and legal operations tooling • Collaborate with Finance on overdue customer accounts, escalation procedures, and legal remedies • Establish and track Legal department KPIs and integrate AI-driven workflow automation • Support M&A, corporate transactions, and other strategic initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. and active bar membership in good standing • 10 years of legal background, with substantial in-house experience at a B2B SaaS or tech enterprise • Proven track record of leading, mentoring, and growing in-house legal teams and broader legal functions • Deep expertise in data privacy and security law, including hands-on experience building privacy programs and responding to regulatory change • Strong track record negotiating and closing enterprise SaaS customer contracts, including MSAs, DPAs, and complex order forms • Solid grounding in intellectual property law as it applies to software products, including licensing and open-source considerations • Experience advising executive leadership on governance, risk, and compliance matters • Sound business judgment and ability to balance legal risk with commercial pragmatism • Excellent negotiation, communication, and cross-functional influence skills • Demonstrated ability to build and scale legal processes and policy in a fast-growing organization • Must live and reside in the U.S. full-time • Eligible to work in the United States; scholastic or employment visas cannot be accommodated • Applicants residing in Alaska, Delaware, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, or Wyoming cannot be considered

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health and life insurance with optional HSA, FSA, and DCA accounts • 401(k) plan with employer match starting day one • Equity stock options to share in our success • Flexible hours, remote work options, and generous vacation and sick leave • Paid parental leave for mothers, fathers, and adoptive parents • Professional development stipends to support your career growth • Opportunities to participate in community outreach and volunteer programs • Monthly company-sponsored happy hours and gatherings to connect and unwind