Description:
About the role:We're looking for a motivated, well-rounded, seasoned Senior Counsel to join Thorn's Legal team! In this role, you'll ensure legal input helps drive our work forward. Working remotely, you'll build relationships across a dynamic, values-first organization and you'll play a key role in structuring, drafting, and negotiating a wide range of contracts, advising on legal issues, and developing creative solutions that manage risk and push the organization forward.
What You'll Do:
- Serve as the primary legal point of contact and partner for multiple teams across the organization.
- Draft, negotiate, review, interpret, and assist in the maintenance of legal documents covering a range of Thorn's activities across the child safety ecosystem, ensuring appropriate risk allocation and regulatory compliance.
- Develop, enhance, and maintain policies, contract templates, trainings, guidelines, and procedures to ensure legal compliance and operational efficiency.
- Provide proactive legal counsel across multiple domains - technology, SaaS, IP, and contracts - anticipating challenges and crafting solutions.
- Develop creative, practical solutions that support internal and external stakeholders while advancing enterprise risk management objectives and safeguarding Thorn's mission and reputation.
- Manage and triage outside counsel relationships to ensure effective, high-quality legal support aligned with organizational priorities.
- Maintain the highest level of professional and ethical standards, acting in compliance with both the letter and spirit of all applicable laws and regulations.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Passion for Thorn's mission and commitment to ethical excellence.
- Excellent interpersonal, analytical, communication, organizational, negotiation, and drafting skills, with the ability to build strong cross-functional relationships.
- Strong legal and operational judgment with the ability to find practical solutions to complex issues and operate independently from initial discussions through final execution.
- Process-oriented with continuous improvement mindset and a self-starting drive to collaborate and share expertise.
- Ability to balance hands-on day-to-day legal work with strategic problem solving.
- Deep expertise in commercial law with substantive knowledge of issues related to software licensing, SaaS contracts, partnerships, and IP.
Minimum Qualifications:
- J.D. degree and membership in a U.S. state bar (or qualified as registered in-house counsel under California's multi-jurisdictional practice program).
- 8+ years experience at a law firm and/or in-house legal department, ideally supporting technology clients.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to apply legal concepts to real-world situations.
- Demonstrated ability to identify, assess, and mitigate legal risks.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 4-6+ years experience handling commercial transactions and government contracts, ideally in-house at an internet, e-commerce or technology company/start up.
- Certified information privacy professional (CIPP) certification or similar privacy certification.
- Experience or knowledge of 501(c) organizations is a plus.
- Experience with Ironclad, Salesforce, data privacy, security, compliance and employment matters is a plus.
- Experience with AI/ML training data compliance and governance.