Dispatch
VP of Legal
Remote · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Aug 20, 2026
- Experience
- 5–15 years of legal experience; at least 3 years in-house.
- Education
- JD from a top law school.
About the job
Own Dispatch’s day-to-day legal function, leading commercial contracting and advising on privacy, data, security, employment, and operational legal matters while building scalable legal processes.
What you'll do
- Draft, review, and negotiate enterprise commercial agreements and develop contracting templates, playbooks, and processes.
- Advise on privacy, data sharing, security, and AI-related legal issues; support product and compliance work.
- Handle routine employment and operational agreements, and identify, scope, and manage matters for outside counsel.
What they ask for
- JD from a top law school and active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- At least 3 years of in-house experience, including direct ownership of commercial contracting; law firm training in technology transactions, commercial contracts, privacy, or a related area.
- Direct B2B SaaS experience negotiating MSAs, order forms, multi-year enterprise agreements, DPAs, security addenda, and third-party data-sharing arrangements.
- Experience with general employment matters, managing outside counsel, and working at a company that had fewer than 250 employees when joined or was Series C or earlier.
Nice to have
- Experience as a company’s first legal hire or transitioning legal work from outside counsel in-house.
- Experience building contract playbooks or implementing contract lifecycle management software; supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, or enterprise security reviews is also preferred.
Tools
MSAs, DPAs, SOC 2, ISO 27001, AI/ML
AI focus
Advise on AI-related restrictions, AI/ML functionality, customer data usage, and restrictions on using confidential or personal information, including model-training terms.
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