Head of Legal
Employment Information
Report this job
Job expired or something wrong with this job?
Job Description
Head of Legal leading privacy, product, commercial, and regulatory work for Dojo’s child-focused education technology. Advising founders and building a high-performing legal function.
Responsibilities:
- Sit on the leadership team and work directly with the co-founders
- Own all legal functions, including product, privacy, commercial, corporate, employment, IP, regulatory, and litigation
- Lead the company’s positions on emerging kids’ technology, AI, online child safety, identity verification, and data use
- Identify and obtain seals and certifications important to parents and school districts
- Make privacy a differentiator for school districts
- Handle regulatory inquiries and protect the product and company reputation
- Partner early with product, engineering, and partnerships to develop shippable plans with sensible guardrails
- Turn standard contracts around in hours and product questions in two days
- Create playbooks for district data agreements, partnerships, and vendor deals
- Lead and grow the in-house legal team and manage outside counsel
- Integrate AI into contract, data-agreement, and privacy-review workflows
- Decide which work belongs in-house versus with specialists and reduce outside spend
- Own M&A, financing, and board matters with the CFO
- Keep the company prepared for transactions or fundraising on short notice
Requirements:
- Led legal at a consumer tech company of 100 to 1,000 people
- Experience owning privacy for a consumer product, ideally one for kids, across COPPA, FERPA, state student privacy laws, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and AI regulations
- Comfortable running M&A, financings, and board work alongside a CFO
- Experience leading talent-dense teams and managing multiple outside firms to budget
- Ability to identify and engage appropriate legal specialists
- Rebuilt legal work with AI and can explain how a small team can match a much larger one
- Ability to distill complex problems into key decisions and write concisely
- Ability to hold a position constructively, adapt when facts change, and make decisions based on trust
- Fast-paced, high-ambition approach with rigorous standards
- 10+ years in law (bonus)
- Experience with child-directed products or student data (bonus)
- Background in strategy consulting, operating, finance, or engineering (bonus)
- Experience improving an existing legal function or leading a distributed team (bonus)
- Ability to communicate Dojo’s story to regulators, reporters, or partners (bonus)
Benefits:
- Distributed company; hire regardless of location with significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones
- Equal employment opportunity
- Disability and special-needs accommodations
- Geographic compensation ranges: $260,000–$325,000 for CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT; $220,000–$275,000 for all other U.S. states
Similar Jobs
Legal Counsel
Legal Counsel guiding B2Spin’s global social casino and gaming business. Handling commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and international expansion.
Senior Counsel
Senior Counsel supporting Vi’s Enterprise-AI health platform across commercial contracts, Israeli governance, equity, financings and M&A. Advising the General Counsel across US and Israeli legal matters.
Commercial Counsel
Commercial Counsel managing complex healthcare and commercial contracts for Foodsmart’s nutrition-driven healthcare platform. Building efficient contracting processes, templates, and technology.
Legal Counsel
Legal Counsel supporting B2Spin’s global social casino and gaming expansion. Advising on commercial contracts, regulatory compliance, corporate governance, and legal risk.
Senior Legal Counsel, Privacy and Data Protection
Senior Legal Counsel advising Nielsen’s media business on GDPR, data protection, and commercial privacy matters. Managing complex privacy workstreams and supporting European products, partnerships, and operations.
Senior Counsel
Senior Counsel advising Empower’s defined contribution and Taft-Hartley retirement businesses. Guiding product, operational and regulatory strategy across financial services teams.
Senior Privacy Counsel, m/f/d
Senior Privacy Counsel advising an international technology company on GDPR, AI, and commercial data protection matters. Improving privacy governance, agreements, and risk management across Germany and global markets.
Counsel – Commercial Transactions
Commercial counsel negotiating procurement, technology, and vendor agreements for The Cigna Group, a healthcare services company. Advising enterprise stakeholders on risk, compliance, governance, and strategic transactions.
Legal Counsel, Privacy
Privacy legal counsel advising Nielsen’s media and audience analytics business on U.S. and global data protection. Drafting contracts, managing assessments, and supporting privacy compliance.
Antitrust & Competition Counsel
Antitrust counsel advising global clients on competition law, merger control, and regulatory investigations. Supporting legal departments through Axiom’s on-demand legal talent and AI platform.
Senior Commercial Counsel, Healthcare
Senior Commercial Counsel owning health system and vendor contracts for Cadence, a clinical AI company automating chronic disease treatment. Advising on healthcare regulatory risk and scalable contracting operations.
Corporate Counsel
Corporate Counsel owning contracts, litigation, advertising enforcement, and legal operations for Grüns, a consumer nutrition-gummies brand.
Corporate Counsel
Corporate Counsel managing governance, entity maintenance, and transactions for OpenLoop’s telehealth support platform. Supporting M&A, financing diligence, cap tables, and healthcare regulatory filings.
Corporate Counsel – Director of Contracts
Corporate Counsel leading contracts, legal risk, and compliance for Skyline, a state, local, and federal government contractor. Advising executives and overseeing contracts, subcontractors, procurement, and cybersecurity matters.
Senior Counsel
Senior Counsel guiding commercial transactions for LabConnect’s global clinical laboratory solutions. Advising business teams, managing contracts, and supporting regulated clinical-trial partnerships.
Senior Counsel – Lemon Law Litigation
Senior Counsel defending California Lemon Law and consumer warranty cases at Tyson & Mendes, a national civil defense firm. Managing litigation strategy, trials, clients, and junior attorneys in Northern California.
Corporate Counsel – Healthcare
Corporate Counsel advising Harris Healthcare’s U.S. healthcare software businesses on commercial agreements, HIPAA, privacy, and technology law. Negotiating transactions and supporting business growth remotely across the United States.
Legal Counsel
Legal Counsel negotiating supplier and B2B customer contracts for White Hat Gaming’s regulated iGaming platform. Supporting licensing, regulatory, compliance, AML, and commercial tender matters globally.
Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property
Senior Counsel shaping Specialized’s global intellectual-property strategy for cycling products and technology. Managing patents, trademarks, licensing, litigation, and IP compliance across worldwide teams.
Legal Counsel – Client Contracting Services
CVS Health legal counsel negotiating pharmacy benefit contracts for employer plan sponsors. Advising sales and business teams on healthcare regulations and client contracting.