Owner.com

All-in-one digital presence for restaurants. Powering websites, online ordering, marketing, recruiting and more.

Head of Legal

General CounselGeneral CounselFull TimeRemoteTeam 11-50H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

76 days ago

Salary

$225K - $275K / year

Postgraduate Degree8 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

• Build and scale Owner’s Legal function as the company’s first full-time legal hire, establishing the frameworks, tooling, and operating norms that enable rapid growth. • Serve as strategic DRI on the company’s most sensitive and high-impact matters, including litigation strategy, negotiations, regulatory posture, and complex commercial agreements. • Partner closely with Product and Engineering to ensure new products, pricing models, integrations, and financial infrastructure are built with compliance and risk minimization in mind. • Design scalable systems across contracting, compliance, employment, corporate governance, privacy, and IP, ensuring clarity, speed, and auditability. • Lead Owner’s litigation strategy end-to-end, including outside counsel engagement, negotiation posture, documentation, and executive communication. • Proactively identify risk areas across the business and build policies, processes, and internal education to mitigate them before they become issues. • Support strategic partnerships/transactions, board matters, fundraising, corporate governance, and investor communications. • Establish the legal architecture needed for Owner’s next phase of scale, creating the foundations for a function that can grow alongside the business. • Earn deep trust across the organization by combining clarity of judgment with a bias to action, moving fast while elevating Owner’s risk standards.

Job Requirements

  • 8–10 years of legal experience, ideally with experience in both law firm and in-house environments.
  • A full-stack legal athlete with experience across commercial, corporate, compliance, IP, employment, and litigation management.
  • A builder mentality - excited to design legal systems, implement processes, and establish standards.
  • A proactive operator with a strong bias to action, capable of serving as DRI for mission-critical company priorities.
  • Exceptional judgment and the ability to see around corners, providing not just legal answers but strategic guidance aligned with Owner’s long-term goals.
  • Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where decisions must be made quickly and with incomplete information.
  • Ability to partner closely with product and engineering teams, translating product risks into crisp decisions and enabling rapid innovation.
  • A future leader motivated to scale the Legal team after establishing foundational systems.

Benefits

  • comprehensive health coverage
  • remote-first workplace
  • unlimited PTO - plus extra fun perks!

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