Vice President Legal

About the role

The Vice President, Legal will have a meaningful voice in company strategy, product innovation, governance, and growth. 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.

Responsibilities

• 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 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 a technology-enabled legal function that leverages automation, AI, and best-in-class legal technology platforms to increase efficiency and optimize legal spend.
• Build and maintain scalable legal processes, contract playbooks, self-service tools, approval frameworks, and operational workflows.
• Oversee commercial contracting strategy and risk management processes while delegating day-to-day contract review and negotiation activities to internal legal team members.
• Oversee privacy initiatives, policies, investigations, training programs, and risk management processes.
• 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.
• 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.
• Manage outside counsel selection, evaluation, and budgeting.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• Excellent judgment, executive presence, communication skills, and business acumen.

Benefits

• Awesome co-workers, exciting atmosphere, and a modern, bright workspace!
• 10 paid holidays and generous paid vacation time
• Free on-site lunches snacks, and beverages
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Robust benefit plan including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Disability coverage
• 401K with 6% Company match