[Hiring] Senior Counsel @Misfits Market

Role Description

Misfits Market is looking for a Senior Counsel, Commercial to join its legal team. In this role, you’ll work directly with leaders across the company to manage the company’s day-to-day legal and compliance needs and help execute the company’s strategic priorities. This position will report directly to the General Counsel and is remote.

• Review, negotiate, and draft a variety of agreements, including:
  • Commercial contracts
  • Agreements with technology companies and other service providers
  • Data protection agreements
  • License and intellectual property agreements
  • Social media and other marketing agreements
  • Real estate leases
  • Transportation agreements
  • Agreements with Misfits Market’s food and packaging vendors
• Lead negotiation and ongoing management of the company's strategic commercial partnerships, structuring complex B2B agreements that balance legal risk with business objectives and serving as trusted counsel to cross-functional teams on partnership structuring, compliance, and dispute resolution.
• Deploy your deep product counseling experience to serve as the legal partner to our product team, reviewing new initiatives, designs, features, and disclosures for compliance with various consumer protection laws.
• Own and manage Misfits Market’s privacy program, leveraging substantive privacy law experience to ensure ongoing compliance, mitigate risk, and respond to evolving regulatory requirements.
• Provide advice and counsel to your colleagues across the company on other legal matters, including intellectual property, advertising, food safety, regulatory compliance, and everything in between.
• Identify and evaluate business and legal risks, and find creative ways to mitigate them while achieving business goals.
• Support with corporate governance matters and the execution of strategic transactions, including M&A, equity, and other financings.

Qualifications

• Passionate about increasing access to high quality food and helping to break the cycle of food waste, and energized by the challenges of serving a dynamic, emerging-growth company.
• Have 6-12 years of relevant experience, ideally with a mix of law firm experience and experience in-house at a fast-paced technology, food, or consumer goods company.
• Organized, resourceful, and able to manage multiple priorities under pressure in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.
• Able to understand business needs and partner with your colleagues across the company to find creative solutions, with a strong understanding of the interplay between legal and business risk.
• Have excellent communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, are able to communicate clearly and productively with your non-legal colleagues, and work well both as a collaborative team player and independently.
• Have strong general commercial contract drafting and negotiation skills, with exceptional attention to detail.
• Demonstrated experience leveraging legal AI tools to streamline research, contract review, and other legal workstreams, with enthusiasm for adopting emerging technology to improve your efficiency.
• Have a strong desire to learn the business and an eagerness to learn new areas of law relevant to Misfits Market’s business.

Benefits

• Salary range: $175,000 - $210,000 / year
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k)
• Annual Misfits grocery box credit of $1200 paid in weekly installments
• Life insurance
• Paid vacation time
• Paid holidays
• Paid sick days