🕒 20 days ago
Lead the global Legal Team and deliver pragmatic, commercially focused advice across contracts, compliance, data protection, governance and risk while building scalable legal services that support international growth.
Vice President, Legal – New York, NY (Hybrid) (986-SLS)
📅 Aug 21
Corporate GovernanceIPO ReadinessLegal Team LeadershipCommercial Law
📜 Description
- Partner with the Chief Legal & Risk Officer on legal matters and help lead the global legal function.
- Manage, mentor, and develop a global team of seven legal professionals.
- Support IPO readiness and potential IPO processes, including diligence, governance, outside counsel, and advisor coordination.
- Oversee commercial, product, intellectual property, and employment matters.
- Professionalize governance and build processes and controls across approximately 50 entities in multiple jurisdictions.
- Modernize legal operations with AI, legal technology, automation, metrics, and repeatable workflows.
🛠️ Requirements
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.
- Meaningful experience in private practice coupled with substantial in-house experience.
- Significant experience with corporate governance, ideally involving a complex global corporate structure.
- Experience supporting an IPO, IPO-readiness initiative, public-company transition, or similarly significant corporate transaction is strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to manage, mentor, and develop high-performing legal professionals.
- Experience working within a global business and managing legal matters across multiple jurisdictions.
- Strong understanding of AI and how technology can improve legal operations, workflows, knowledge management, and service delivery.
- Experience implementing or meaningfully participating in the modernization of a legal department through technology, AI, automation, CLM, knowledge-management tools, or similar systems is highly desirable.
- Technology company experience, with comfort operating in a lean, hands-on environment.
- Strong business acumen and the ability to translate sophisticated legal concepts into practical guidance for non-legal stakeholders.
✨ Benefits
- Target annual bonus
- Meaningful stock grant
Full job description
Our client, a rapidly growing global technology company is seeking a Vice President, Legal to help lead its legal function through its next stage of growth and maturity. The company has operations across numerous countries and a complex corporate structure comprising approximately 50 entities worldwide.
This is a highly visible leadership position reporting to the company’s Chief Legal & Risk Officer. This executive will manage a global legal team of seven professionals and will work closely with senior business leaders throughout the organization. This is a hybrid position based in New York, NY.
The ideal candidate is a business-minded, collaborative builder who views Legal as an enabler rather than a gatekeeper. This person will be an effective people leader who can bring greater cohesion to a talented global team while remaining hands-on and resourceful. They will bring a systematic approach to the legal function, understand how technology, AI, data, and well-designed processes can improve legal service delivery, and communicate effectively with stakeholders throughout the business. Thebase salary range is $350,000–$400,000, depending on experience, qualifications, and location. The position is also eligible for a target annual bonus and a meaningful stock grant as part of the overall compensation package. This is an incredible opportunity to join a sophisticated global company at an important inflection point. The role combines several compelling mandates: leading and developing a talented global legal team; serving as the Chief Legal & Risk Officer’s key partner; preparing a complex international corporate structure for potential public-company life; and helping build a legal function that uses technology, data, institutional knowledge, and AI to operate more intelligently. Solutus has been selected as the exclusive representative for this search. Candidates applying directly to our client will be redirected to Solutus for consideration. Ref. #986-SLSKey Responsibilities:
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