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About the Role
Pearl is seeking an AI-focused General Counsel to lead legal strategy for a global business. This role involves advising the CEO, executive team, and Board of Directors on corporate strategy, product innovation, consumer trust, and global operations. The General Counsel will own the company's legal strategy, guiding matters including AI development, intellectual property, privacy, corporate governance, financing, employment, and global compliance. The role also includes leading and developing a lean Legal team that adopts AI for efficient operations.
Responsibilities
- Lead legal strategy and executive counsel.
- Set the Legal function’s priorities in line with Pearl’s business strategy, product plans, and most significant risks.
- Help leaders distinguish legal requirements from business choices and decide when to proceed, mitigate, or change course.
- Anticipate emerging issues and bring Legal and the Exec team into important decisions early.
- Oversee corporate governance, Board support, equity matters, corporate policies, and global entity management.
- Lead legal strategy for financing, M&A, strategic partnerships, diligence, and other significant corporate initiatives.
- Partner with Finance and leadership on the legal aspects of investor communications and significant corporate disclosures.
- Own the approach to major litigation, class actions, disputes, investigations, and regulatory inquiries.
- Partner proactively with PR and Marketing to advance Pearl’s mission, communicate the value of its products and services, and highlight its broader impact on consumers, independent professionals, and the markets it serves.
- Direct outside counsel on critical matters, with clear expectations for strategy, quality, and cost.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and business leaders on AI-enabled products and customer experiences.
- Guide legal decisions involving consumer protection, marketing, subscriptions, privacy, data use, intellectual property, and evolving AI regulation.
- Oversee major commercial negotiations and establish practical standards for routine agreements.
- Partner with People and business leaders on significant employment matters, internal policies, and compliance issues.
- Support the legal needs of Pearl’s international operations, working with local experts where appropriate.
- Enable teams to confidently comply with the variety of regulations impacting the e-commerce industry: privacy, security, consumer protection, algorithmic pricing, evolving global AI statutes, and others.
- Further mentor and develop legal leaders and create clear ownership, effective delegation, and strong accountability across the team.
- Set the department’s operating model, staffing priorities, budget, and outside counsel strategy.
- Champion industry-leading use of AI across Legal to help the team work more effectively and serve the business efficiently.
Requirements
- 10+ years of in-house legal leadership experience in technology, B2B/B2C or 2-sided internet marketplaces, platform e-commerce, or similarly complex business.
- Experience as a General Counsel or senior legal leader in a highly regulated industry with meaningful responsibility for legal strategy, executive advice, and Board matters.
- Demonstrated AI fluency and the ability to lead its adoption across Legal.
- Business-minded legal judgment and a track record of finding practical paths through complex issues so teams can move quickly.
- Strong corporate generalist judgment, with depth in governance, consumer protection, and complex litigation or regulatory matters.
- Experience leading legal work on significant financing, M&A, or other strategic transactions.
- Experience advising on technology products, privacy and data use, and legal issues affecting customer-facing businesses.
- The ability to lead a team, develop senior legal talent, and decide when to delegate and when to engage directly.
- Clear, concise written and verbal communication, including the ability to advise executives and align stakeholders in an often-asynchronous environment.
- A J.D. and active membership in good standing with a U.S. state bar.
- A humble leader who takes enabling organizations, but not themselves, seriously.
Skills
- AI development and usage
- Intellectual property
- Privacy and data protection
- Consumer protection
- Corporate governance
- Financing and strategic transactions
- Employment law
- AI and regulation
- Litigation and disputes
- Global compliance
- Legal strategy
- Executive counsel
- Product innovation
- M&A
- Commercial negotiations
- AI adoption
- Legal operations
Location
- Remote From California
- Remote From Florida
- Remote From Georgia
- Remote From Idaho
- Remote From Illinois
- Remote From Massachusetts
- Remote From Michigan
- Remote From New Jersey
- Remote From New York
- Remote From North Carolina
- Remote From Ohio
- Remote From Oregon
- Remote From Pennsylvania
- Remote From Texas
- Remote From Virginia
- Remote From Washington
- Remote From Wisconsin
Work Type
- Remote
Experience Level
- 10+ years of in-house legal leadership experience
Education Level
- J.D.
- Active membership in good standing with a U.S. state bar
About the Company
- Pearl is AI for professional services at global scale, combining advanced AI with verified human expertise to deliver help that is accurate, accountable, and fast.
- Since 2003, our network has connected millions of customers with licensed professionals across 196 countries, making real expertise available anytime, anywhere.
- Our Values: Data driven, Courageous, Innovative, Lean, Humble.
Equal Opportunity
- Pearl is committed to an inclusive workplace.
- Pearl is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected status.