Assistant General Counsel

About the role

TripleLift’s Legal team supports our rapidly evolving and growing global advertising business. Our mandate is to provide strategic and practical legal advice to all functions throughout the organization. The Assistant General Counsel role reports to the General Counsel and manages a broad legal portfolio in support of our commercial initiatives, including negotiating and executing a variety of complex and cutting-edge commercial agreements critical to our expanding business and platform. This role requires a close relationship with executives across the company and with internal clients spanning multiple functions. The role is intentionally broad and requires a deep understanding of our business to assess legal and business risks and make sound decisions under tight deadlines. The ideal candidate is a business-minded and practical lawyer who understands technology and business objectives to strategically balance legal risks in advising the business at an executive level.

Responsibilities

• Interact and collaborate with senior executives across TripleLift’s diverse business, providing practical and actionable legal advice that appropriately balances business objectives with risk.
• Supervise other attorneys on go-to-market tasks and projects in a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive manner.
• Collaborate with other senior members of the legal team.
• Review, negotiate, and draft a variety of technology and commercial agreements, including terms governing access to our core advertising services, platform vendor and data provider agreements, SAAS, privacy, and other technology agreements.
• Lead complex, cross-border, commercial negotiations with strategic partners and some of the biggest names in digital advertising.
• Support product, technology, and commercial teams in evaluating, protecting, and commercializing new products and features.
• Ensure compliance and draft contracts and policies to address a variety of industry standards, laws, and regulations impacting online advertising, including intellectual property, gaming, privacy, and political advertising.
• Help the legal team develop, implement, and support the continuous improvement of standard form agreements, legal processes, policies, and trainings.
• Exercise strong judgment to advise TripleLift and contribute to the overall success of the business.
• Identify, research, analyze, and advise teams on a wide range of relevant legal topics, issues, and risk (e.g., licensing, intellectual property, commercial, data security, and privacy law).
• Thrive in a collaborative, supportive environment and participate in helping to lead a diverse and highly capable legal team.

Requirements

• Licensed to practice in New York with superior academic credentials.
• 6+ years of commercial experience at a top-tier law firm or in-house legal department.
• Prior experience in adtech, with strong client service skills.
• Experience with global privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, etc.).
• Ability to understand technology and the interplay between legal risk, policy, and strategy.
• Excellent business judgment and ability to assess legal risk while also thinking strategically and providing practical advice.
• Exceptional communication, analytical, and writing skills.
• Ability and desire to work both autonomously and collaboratively as part of a growing legal team.
• Strong project-management and operational skills.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $180,000—$200,000 USD. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to experience and performance. The range listed is one component of TripleLift’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include bonuses, an open Paid Time Off policy, and many region-specific benefits.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Plans
• Flexible PTO
• 401k with employer match

Full-time employees are eligible for comprehensive benefits (subject to the terms of applicable plans/policies/agreements, which will be made available after commencing employment).