General Counsel

About the company

Same Seats. Better Prices. Among the fastest growing technology companies, TickPick is reshaping the secondary ticket marketplace, putting money back in the wallets of live event-goers. Since inception, we have saved our customers over $55 million in service fees. Our BestPrice Guarantee backs up our promise to deliver better prices than our competition. For the last five years, TickPick has been named a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 award winner and has landed on lists of Inc. 5000's and Crain's New York Business' Fast 50. If you are passionate about concerts, sports, or theater, and want to see your skills and experience have a direct impact on a fast growing company, TickPick is the place for you. We are building a lean, high-output engineering team committed to providing the most innovative, transparent, and cost-effective ticket marketplace in the industry.

About the role

We're hiring a business-minded, hands-on General Counsel to be TickPick's first in-house lawyer and to build our legal function from the ground up. Reporting to the Chief Financial & Administrative Officer and working directly with our co-founders and leadership team, you'll own legal strategy and execution across the company — balancing risk, speed, and pragmatism in a business that operates at national scale with a small team. This is a generalist, "builder" role where you'll run the company's legal function, setting priorities, advising the business, and managing risk across teams. You'll be expected to leverage AI and modern legal practices to streamline workflows, manage outside counsel budgets, and raise the overall effectiveness of the legal function.

Responsibilities

• Commercial & partnerships: Lead negotiation of partnership agreements with teams, leagues, venues, and media/affiliate partners, plus customer, vendor and technology agreements
• Consumer-facing policies: Own terms and conditions, privacy, cookie and other policies and advise on trademarks, advertising, promotions, and giveaways
• Disputes and legal requests: Manage litigation, consumer claims, investigations and other disputes
• Regulatory and compliance: Partner with Finance on sales-tax and marketplace-facilitator obligations, corporate filings, and lender/investor reporting requirements. Own governance, compliance and risk frameworks
• M&A and strategic transactions: Lead the legal workstream on acquisitions and other strategic transactions, including diligence coordination, quarterbacking outside counsel, and integration support
• Government affairs: Monitor state and federal laws and licensing requirements impacting our industry, translate changes into operational updates, and manage related lobbying relationships and outside consultants. Represent TickPick in industry coalitions and with regulators
• Employee relations and equity administration: Partner with the People team on employment matters including offer letters, onboarding docs, handbook/policies, employee relations issues, separation agreements, visa/immigration compliance, and management of equity grant issuance

Requirements

• JD and active bar membership in good standing (New York Admission, out-of-state members will be required to join the NY bar