About the company
Tools for Humanity is a technology company built to ensure a more just economic system.
Job Summary
What you’ll do:
📍Member of legal leadership, helping to build and support the strategy for the legal team in collaboration with other legal leads. 📍Lead and help develop our Product, IP, and Marketing Legal team. 📍Partner with the Engineering, Product, and Design teams to understand and assess new products and technologies, from early development stages through launch – and provide proactive legal advice throughout the product lifecycle. 📍Drive and evolve the legal-compliance-by-design process, including privacy-by-design and safety-by-design. 📍Identify, analyze, and advise on evolving legal and safety risks and global regulatory requirements for new and existing products and technologies. 📍Work closely with legal subject matter experts to ensure regulatory compliance. 📍Build and manage our IP strategy, including prosecution, protection and enforcement. 📍Support the communications and marketing teams in partnership with our Market Operations legal team 📍Help scale the legal organization by developing innovative processes to support the fast-moving Engineering, Product, and Design teams. 📍Help draft public-facing descriptions of new products and technologies, and manage the terms of service and privacy policy updates working with legal team members. 📍Stay abreast of emerging legal trends and best practices in the tech industry, and provide thought leadership within the legal team and the company. 📍Be a collaborative team player with a positive attitude. 📍Be willing and able to roll up your sleeves and jump right in to support the team.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
📍Experience across a range of legal disciplines – e.g., product, privacy, consumer protection, marketing, advertising and IP. 📍Very strong understanding of consumer protection, GDPR and other global privacy laws. 📍Experience working directly with engineers, product managers, and senior executives on product development. 📍Someone who’s excited about and comfortable with mastering new areas of law and tech, in particular cryptocurrencies. 📍Excellent legal and business judgment and strategic thinking to ensure appropriate prioritization. 📍Able to communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the company on complex, multifaceted issues.