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About the Role
This role is solely responsible for the legal function at Button, with an emphasis on commercial contracting, privacy and data protection, corporate governance, and providing day-to-day legal advice to all company teams.
Responsibilities
- Draft, negotiate, and close commercial agreements including MSAs, DPAs, vendor and procurement paper.
- Develop and revise standard terms, create playbooks, and set legal strategy.
- Work directly with commercial and finance teams during negotiations.
- Own Button's privacy posture across domestic and international law, including data processing agreements.
- Manage vendor and partner diligence on data handling.
- Translate legal and platform requirements into actionable items for product and commercial teams.
- Partner with People Operations on employment matters.
- Support diligence on financing or corporate transactions.
- Partner with product, engineering, and marketing teams to secure patents and trademarks.
- Build templates, fallback positions, and negotiation playbooks for commercial team self-service.
- Set approval thresholds and governance standards for legal review.
- Establish a contract repository for efficient information retrieval.
Requirements
- A JD and active bar admission in New York, or admission in another US jurisdiction with eligibility to register as in-house counsel in New York.
- 5–7 years in practice, including at least two years in-house.
- Personally drafted and negotiated commercial technology agreements (SaaS, data, advertising, partnership, or similar) as the responsible lawyer.
- Working knowledge of US state privacy law and GDPR as applied to a company that processes data on behalf of partners.
- Managed outside counsel on at least one substantive workstream, including scope and budget.
- Advised commercial and go-to-market teams directly at a fast pace.
- Built or materially rebuilt a contracting process (templates, playbooks, approval thresholds).
- Operated effectively in a lean, rapidly changing, or unstructured environment.
Skills
- Commercial contracting
- Privacy and data protection
- Corporate governance
- Legal advice
- Drafting agreements
- Negotiating agreements
- MSAs
- DPAs
- Vendor agreements
- Procurement agreements
- Standard terms development
- Playbook creation
- Legal strategy setting
- Privacy law
- Data protection law
- GDPR
- Platform compliance
- Diligence management
- Employment law
- Financing transactions
- Corporate transactions
- Patent law
- Trademark law
- Contract lifecycle management
- Contract repository management
- Risk assessment
- Process building
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5-7 years in practice
- At least two years in-house
Education Level
- Juris Doctor (JD)
- Active bar admission in New York or eligible for in-house counsel registration
Salary/Compensations
- $205,000 - $250,000
Benefits
- Competitive base salary
- 401(k) plan with 3% annual company contribution
- Unlimited time off
- Paid birthdays off
- Summer and Winter Breaks
- Employee assistance program
- 100% premium coverage for employee health, vision, and dental insurance
- 80% premium coverage for dependent health, vision, and dental insurance
- Complimentary One Medical memberships for employees and dependents
- Monthly stipend for mobile phone/internet
- Annual lifestyle stipend
- All Access WeWork memberships (in select markets)
- Regular coworking days
- Social events
- Opportunity to live company values
About the Company
- Button is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace.
- Button values and celebrates differences.
- Button believes being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.
- Button is building a better internet, fueled by commerce.
Equal Opportunity
- Button is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.