VICE PRESIDENT, LEGAL

About The Role

Salary.com is expanding its AI capabilities and global reach. This role is designed for a legal leader who wants to influence business outcomes, build scalable programs, and help guide the responsible use of technology in the future of work.

Salary

Base Salary Range: $190,000 - $200,000 plus a 15% bonus potential

What You’ll Do

• Serve as a trusted legal advisor to the CEO and executive leadership team.
• Provide practical, business-oriented counsel on strategic initiatives, growth opportunities, partnerships, enterprise risk management, and acquisitions.
• Develop legal strategies that support company objectives while appropriately managing risk.
• Establish and monitor key performance indicators (“KPIs”) for the legal function that demonstrate business impact, operational efficiency, risk reduction, and alignment with company objectives.
• Present significant legal, regulatory, and compliance matters to executive leadership and the Board.
• Lead Salary’s legal and compliance strategy related to AI, machine learning, data usage, and emerging technologies.
• Develop and maintain AI governance frameworks, policies, and responsible-use standards across the entire company.
• Evaluate and implement emerging legal technologies, including AI-powered legal tools, to improve productivity, enhance legal service delivery, and reduce dependence on external counsel where appropriate.
• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Security to support the development and deployment of innovative AI-enabled products.
• Advise on evolving AI regulations, industry standards, and emerging legal risks affecting HR technology and SaaS businesses.
• Help translate legal and regulatory developments into product opportunities and competitive advantages.
• Partner with product and business leaders to develop legally compliant strategies for the commercialization, licensing, and monetization of Salary’s proprietary datasets, benchmarking information, analytics, and AI-enabled offerings.
• Lead Salary’s global privacy programs.
• Oversee privacy initiatives, policies, investigations, training programs, and risk management processes.
• Be responsible for all required privacy certifications, monitoring, required internal documentation, and DSAR requests.
• Advisory on employment law matters, workforce strategy, executive compensation, investigations, and employee relations issues.
• Counsel the business on legal considerations related to AI-enabled workplaces, workforce analytics, compensation transparency, and evolving labor and employment regulations.
• Partner with HR leaders on policies, training, and compliance initiatives.
• Lead corporate governance activities, including Board and committee support.
• Manage corporate records, governance policies, and entity compliance requirements.
• Advise executive leadership on governance best practices and fiduciary obligations.
• Support domestic and international subsidiary governance activities.
• Develop and oversee the company’s intellectual property strategy, including the identification, protection, and monetization of strategic data assets, AI innovations, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks, and patents.
• Oversee commercial contracting strategy and risk management processes while delegating day-to-day contract review and negotiation activities to internal legal team members.
• Build and maintain scalable legal processes, contract playbooks, self-service tools, approval frameworks, and operational workflows.
• Lead and develop the legal team, including counsel and paralegal staff.
• Build and maintain scalable legal operations, including contract playbooks, self-service tools, automation technologies, approval frameworks, and operational workflows designed to enable business growth while minimizing legal bottlenecks.
• Select, manage, and evaluate outside counsel across all legal disciplines.
• Ensure the company receives high-quality, business-focused legal support in a cost-effective manner.
• Continuously evaluate opportunities to insource work, leverage technology, and optimize outside counsel utilization to improve cost efficiency and service quality.

What We’re Looking For

• A thoughtful and pragmatic legal executive who enjoys partnering with business leaders, influencing strategy, solving complex problems, and helping innovative technology companies scale responsibly.
• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited US law school.
• Active membership in good standing with at least one US state bar and eligibility to provide legal services to a US-based company headquartered in Massachusetts.
• Demonstrated success advising executive leadership teams on strategic legal and business matters within technology, SaaS, data, or software businesses.
• Experience leading legal teams, managing outside counsel, owning legal department budgets and priorities, and establishing departmental and cross-functional KPIs.
• Strong knowledge of privacy, data governance, technology law, intellectual property, corporate governance, data commercialization, and commercial legal issues.
• Demonstrated experience implementing legal technology solutions and leveraging AI to improve legal department efficiency and effectiveness.
• Ability to manage, prioritize, scale, and operationalize substantive legal knowledge so that the Legal Department becomes strategic and accretive to Salary and not a departmental silo.
• Excellent judgment, executive presence, communication skills, and business acumen.