[Hiring] Associate Corporate Counsel @ezCater, Inc

Role Description

We are seeking a talented, highly motivated, proactive and collaborative lawyer to join its in-house legal team to support ezCater’s rapidly growing business. You will be a critical member of ezCater’s lean commercial legal team and an essential business partner to internal clients across various cross-functional groups. In this role, you will provide a wide range of high-quality, timely legal support, consisting principally of:

• Drafting, negotiating, reviewing and interpreting a wide variety of commercial agreements, including vendor contracts and other agreements to support the business, ensuring both business and legal objectives are met.
• Building and improving our contract templates, playbooks, talk tracks and legal processes to help our business scale.
• Developing, delivering and refreshing trainings on legal issues, contract best practices and key negotiating points.
• Providing practical legal analysis, strategy and guidance to internal clients and cross-functional teams that balances business objectives and legal risk and assisting clients in implementing legal guidance.
• Managing assigned legal projects to completion.
• Assisting in other legal matters, such as legal research, strategic transactions and legal escalations.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-5 years legal experience in a law firm or in-house, with experience in commercial contracts, and membership to at least one state bar.
• Strong drafting skills (from forms and from scratch) with a solid understanding of legal terms and contract formulation principles, including confidentiality, indemnity, termination, representations and other common contract provisions.
• Excellent ability to negotiate with third parties in both non-confrontational and potentially adversarial scenarios.
• Ability to communicate the implications of legal requirements to internal clients.
• A strong work ethic, high standards, impeccable integrity, and well-honed analytical skills.
• Excellent judgment and ability to balance risk with business objectives, able to operate independently and know when to escalate issues to other in-house counsel.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; adaptable to new situations and challenges.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to write in a clear and concise manner and effectively communicate across all levels of the organization and with third parties.
• Strong interpersonal skills and are a reliable self-starter with a positive, inclusive and team-oriented attitude.

Requirements

• The national total target cash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $147,157-$210,477 annually.
• Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).
• ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.

Benefits

• Market competitive salary.
• Stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot.
• 12 paid holidays.
• Flexible PTO.
• 401K with ezCater match.
• Health/dental/FSA.
• Long-term disability insurance.
• Mental health and family planning resources.
• Remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office.
• A tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy.
• Wicked awesome co-workers.
• Employee meal program (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office.
• Knowing that you helped transform the food for work space.