[Hiring] Senior Corporate Counsel @Cars Commerce

Role Description

A key member of the Legal Team, Senior Corporate Counsel collaborates with and provides legal advice and counsel to key stakeholders across the enterprise to drive Cars.com’s towards success. This position is “hands-on” with the expectation to self-start, adapt as necessary, and maintain ongoing interactions with senior and executive Cars.com leaders. In addition, Senior Counsel must be able to provide strategic business advice on an ad hoc basis on a variety of industry-specific issues related to e-commerce and automotive while considering potential legal pitfalls. Ideal candidates will endeavour to find unique and viable solutions, communicate effectively, be comfortable in a fast-paced work environment, and seek to continuously improve.

Primary Responsibilities

• Effectively provide general legal counsel and advice to non-attorney business stakeholders concisely and precisely.
• Provide specific advice and counsel related to compliance, consumer protection, cybersecurity, data privacy, and employment laws both in the United States and Canada.
• Negotiate, review, and draft employment contracts and a variety of commercial contracts ranging from subscription contracts, SaaS contracts, NDAs, leases, advertising and media contracts, and time and materials contracts in a high volume setting.
• Review corporate policies and procedures ensuring compliance with applicable federal, state, and local laws as necessary.
• Perform ad hoc legal research relating to current and new business initiatives.
• Minimize company risk by reviewing company advertising and promotional materials, ensuring compliance with applicable state consumer protection laws.
• Monitor inbound and outbound data and technology licensing activity, software and professional services agreements and trademark clearance and usage.
• Provide strategic analysis related to new business matters, and any potential or ongoing litigation.
• Manage any potential or ongoing litigation with support of outside counsel, including reviewing or drafting motions and pleadings.
• Ad hoc support on due diligence in mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.
• Uphold the integrity and good-will of Cars.com.

Qualifications

• Active, good standing license with at least one U.S. state bar.
• General corporate experience at a law firm or in-house legal department performing similar duties and functions as described in this position’s primary responsibilities.
• Experience reviewing and negotiating complex commercial and employment contracts.
• Knowledge of U.S. and Canadian employment, consumer protection, data privacy, and federal and state civil procedure laws.
• Litigation experience or litigation management.
• Excellent strategic and analytical skills, strong communication and presentation skills, and the ability to work well independently and on a team.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in an e-commerce, tech, or automotive-related company preferred.
• Experience with legal issues arising in product development, US federal and state data security and privacy regulations and fintech preferred.

Salary Range

$154,200.00 - $192,750.00

Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision Healthcare Plans.
• New Hire Stipend for Home Office Set-Up.
• Generous PTO.
• Paid Holidays, Floating Holiday, Volunteer Day, Recharge Day.

Company Description

At Cars Commerce, we’re fanatical about simplifying everything about car buying and selling. We do right by our customers and consumers to better connect the industry with simplified and tierless technology to enhance, measure and drive local automotive retail.

No one ever travels alone here: at its core, Cars Commerce is collaboration. In fact, it’s built into the very fabric of our shared values. We like to say we Rise Together – putting people at the center of what we do, from consumer to customer to community.

Life at Cars Commerce makes it easy when we share the ethos to be Open to All, encouraging open-minded communication because we know diverse thinking yields better outcomes. But critical to our success is Caring to Challenge and Taking Ownership, fueling a competitive spirit in a respectful environment where we think about tomorrow but act today.

At our foundation, we have integrity, Doing the Right Thing, even when it’s hard. It’s our shared commitment to these values that makes Cars Commerce a place where growth becomes not only possible, but downright unavoidable.

We are proud to be named one of Built In's 2026 Best Places to Work in Chicago and across the U.S.