[Hiring] Head of Legal @ClassDojo

Role Description

As Head of Legal you'll sit on the leadership team and work directly with our co-founders. You'll own all of legal: product, privacy, commercial, corporate, employment, IP, regulatory and litigation. You'll inherit good foundations, including a small in-house team, trusted outside counsel and working commercial and privacy processes. Your job is to make them great.

• Make Dojo the company parents trust most with their kids.
• Decide where Dojo stands on the hardest questions in kids' tech, and say it publicly before regulators decide for us.
• Figure out which seals and certifications actually change a parent's or a district's mind, then win them.
• Make privacy one of the reasons districts pick Dojo.
• Handle regulatory calls effectively to protect product and reputation.
• Make legal the reason things ship faster.
• Get involved early with product, engineering and partnerships to enhance plans.
• Turn standard contracts in hours and product questions in two days.
• Write playbooks for district data agreements, partnerships and vendor deals.
• Build a legal team that outperforms teams five times its size.
• Lead and grow a small, high-performing in-house team, managing outside counsel to budget.
• Integrate AI into daily work on contracts, data agreements and privacy reviews.
• Own M&A, financing and board matters with our CFO.

Qualifications

• Experience leading legal at a consumer tech company of 100 to 1,000 people.
• Product and business leaders have noted your ability to make them faster and find solutions.
• Ownership of privacy for a consumer product, ideally one for kids, across various regulations.
• Comfortable running M&A, financings and board work alongside a CFO.
• Experience managing talent-dense teams and outside firms to budget.
• Experience in rebuilding legal work with AI.
• Ability to simplify complex problems into key decisions.
• Ability to move fast and raise the bar on ambition and rigor.

Requirements

• 10+ years in law, ideally including child-directed products or student data.
• Experience in strategy consulting, operating, finance or engineering.
• Experience improving existing legal functions or leading distributed teams.
• Ability to communicate Dojo's story effectively to various stakeholders.

Benefits

• Equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
• Consideration for employment of qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• Accommodations for disabilities or special needs.
• Distributed company hiring regardless of location with significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones.
• Compensation based on geographic location, experience, and skillset.

Company Description

Dojo started as a simple way for teachers to show parents what happened in class. Today it's used in 95% of US K-8 schools and by 1 in 4 American families, reaching about 50 million kids in 180 countries. Our mission is to give every child on Earth an education they love.