[Hiring] General Counsel @Todoist

Role Description

At Todoist, our mission is to empower people with simple yet powerful tools. We're a multidisciplinary, fully-remote team that's passionate about creating products, like Todoist and Comms, that improve people's lives. We thrive on innovating new solutions to old productivity challenges and we seek to rethink how productivity tools are made.

This is our first in-house legal role. Today we work with outside counsel case by case, which serves us well for specialist matters but leaves the everyday questions — a customer contract, a privacy question, an employment question in a country we haven't hired in before — waiting longer than they should. You'll take full DRI ownership of legal at Todoist: bringing that work in-house, and shaping how we handle it from here.

You'll report to our Head of Finance and collaborate with every function:

• Product and Engineering on privacy and data protection
• People on employment questions across our distributed team
• Marketing on brand, content, and trademark

The work spans:

• Commercial contracts
• Employment
• Privacy and GDPR
• IP
• Litigation
• Questions that cross jurisdictions

A typical week might include:

• Reviewing and negotiating customer and vendor agreements
• Answering questions in Comms threads from teammates
• Updating a policy that no longer reflects how we work
• Choosing which specialist matters to route to external counsel

We're open on level here: the role can be a good fit at two points on our career framework, and where you land depends on the scope you're ready to own from the start.

Because we're remote and asynchronous, much of your work will be written, and AI is part of how we all work day to day. You'll be trusted to set your own priorities, and you'll have room to build the templates, systems, and documentation the company needs — starting with what we need now, rather than what a larger company would need.

Qualifications

• Substantial legal experience, ideally including general counsel work at a global company
• Licensed to practice law in at least one U.S. state
• Proven expertise in at least two legal domains, ideally commercial alongside privacy or litigation
• Comfortable across a broad set of matters: commercial contracts, privacy and data protection, employment, IP, and litigation
• Working knowledge of data protection regimes such as GDPR
• Experience supporting a tech or SaaS company; remote experience is a plus
• Ability to write clearly for non-lawyers
• Comfortable as the only lawyer in the room, ready to own complex matters end to end
• Gives practical guidance to help teams understand tradeoffs
• Comfortable collaborating across time zones and cultures in a mostly asynchronous environment
• Excited to use AI in your work on a regular basis

Requirements

• Apply soonest, as these roles don't come along often and we move fast.
• If you think you meet at least half of the requirements, but not all of them, please consider applying.

Benefits

• Work from anywhere in the world; no restrictions on location.
• Design your own schedule; encouraged to work 8-hour days and no more than 40 hours/week.
• Competitive pay based on industry-benchmarked skills and geographical location.
• Recurring budget for continuing education, attending conferences, and purchasing books.
• Team- and company-wide retreats for in-person collaboration.
• Co-working space expenses covered.
• Monthly budget for work-related services and apps.
• Recurring budget for work-related equipment.
• 8 weeks (40 days) of vacation per year.
• 5 weeks of paid parental leave for new parents, in addition to 13 weeks of paid pregnancy-related medical leave.
• Monthly budget for health and wellness expenses.

Our Process

• Recruiter Screen → Interview 1 → Interview 2 → Task → Interview 3
• Submit your complete application with a resume and thoughtful responses.
• Application screening to understand your motivation, skills, and experience.
• Salary transparency and Recruiter Screen with Talent team.
• Value-alignment interview with Head of People.
• Role-alignment interview with Head of Finance.
• Paid task assignment to showcase your role-specific skills.
• Culture-contribution interview with Chief Executive Officer.
• Reference & Background checks.
• Offer to the successful hire.