Head of Legal

LiveKit

$120K — $180K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years as an in-house lawyer in a high-growth tech environment
  • Extensive experience with commercial contracts, especially data-heavy agreements
  • Fluency in privacy laws (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA)
  • Self-starter able to develop legal processes and playbooks
  • Strong risk assessment skills with a quick decision-making ability

Responsibilities

  • Own the end-to-end commercial contracting process including MSAs and NDAs
  • Lead the privacy and data protection program for real-time voice and media data
  • Act as the legal liaison for Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering teams
  • Manage corporate governance activities like board consents and cap-table maintenance
  • Establish guidelines on open-source licensing, AI governance, and telecom regulations
  • Control external legal spending and determine what to manage in-house

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence a fast-growing developer platform
  • Work closely with a small, experienced team valuing creativity and craft
  • Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible vacation policy for work-life balance
  • Equity options included in a competitive compensation package
Full Job Description
About This Role:
  • think of legal as a way to help the business move faster, not a set of gates
  • are comfortable being the whole legal function - doing the work yourself, not just managing it
  • are technically curious enough to understand how the product, the data, and open source actually work
  • bring structure to ambiguity and write the playbooks that let others self-serve
  • have sound judgment under speed, and know which risks actually matter

The best way to impress us is to show how you would turn a thorny contract or a messy compliance question into a fast, practical "yes."

What You'll Do:
  • Own commercial contracting end to end - customer MSAs, order forms, DPAs, BAAs, vendor agreements, and NDAs - and build the playbooks and templates that let the GTM team move fast
  • Stand up and run our privacy and data-protection program (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA) for a company built on real-time voice and media data
  • Be the legal partner to Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering - the person who helps deals close and products ship, on the right side of the risk line
  • Own corporate and governance work alongside Finance - board consents, equity mechanics, and entity and cap-table hygiene
  • Set our posture on the things that are specific to us: open-source licensing and IP, AI governance, and telecom/SIP regulatory questions
  • Manage outside counsel surgically - decide what comes in-house, and keep spend in check
Who You Are:
  • You have been the first (or one of the first) in-house lawyers at a high-growth tech company, or you are a senior commercial counsel ready to own a function
  • You have deep commercial-contracts experience - enterprise, usage-based, data-heavy - and the judgment to move quickly on risk
  • You are fluent in privacy and data protection (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and ideally HIPAA)
  • You are a builder and an operator - comfortable as a team of one, writing the playbook, and saying "yes, and here's how"


Nice to Have
  • Open-source licensing / IP experience, or a background in developer infrastructure, real-time/WebRTC, telephony, or AI
  • Corporate, governance, and equity reps (409A, board consents), and exposure to M&A
  • Familiarity with AI governance (EU AI Act) and telecom regulation (E911, STIR/SHAKEN, TCPA)
  • You are the kind of person who reads the contract all the way to the end - and quietly enjoys finding the one clause everyone else missed


We offer
  • The opportunity to shape the brand of a fast-growing developer platform
  • Collaboration with a small, senior team that deeply values craft and creativity
  • Competitive salary and equity package
  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Flexible vacation policy

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