[Remote] Head of Legal

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ClassDojo is seeking a Head of Legal to lead its legal function and advise the leadership team and co-founders. The role spans product, privacy, commercial, corporate, employment, intellectual property, regulatory, and litigation matters, while helping teams move quickly and building a high-performing legal function.

Responsibilities

• Decide where Dojo stands on the hardest questions in kids' tech, and say it publicly before regulators decide for us: AI that talks to children, kids playing together online, and how products for kids should make money
• Figure out which seals and certifications actually change a parent's or a district's mind, then win them
• Make privacy one of the reasons districts pick Dojo
• When a regulator calls, handle it so well that the product and our reputation come out unharmed
• Get pulled into the room early by product, engineering and partnerships, because you make their plans better. Find the version that can ship, name the one or two real showstoppers, and tell the team what to do this week
• Turn standard contracts in hours and product questions in two days
• Write the playbooks that let district data agreements, partnerships and vendor deals close without starting from zero each time
• Lead and grow a small, very good in-house team, and hold outside counsel to budget and to your standard
• Put AI into the daily work on contracts, data agreements and privacy reviews. Decide what comes in-house and what stays with specialists, so outside spend falls while quality rises
• Own M&A, financing and board matters with our CFO, and keep the company ready to do a deal or a raise on short notice

Skills

• You've led legal at a consumer tech company of 100 to 1,000 people, where product and engineering create most of the value
• Product and business leaders who've worked with you say, unprompted, that you made them faster and found answers they hadn't seen
• You end your advice with what you'd do, and once the call is made you own it
• You've owned privacy for a consumer product, ideally one for kids, across COPPA, FERPA, state student privacy laws, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR and the new rules on AI
• If your depth is narrower, you learn fast and already think about it clearly
• You're comfortable running M&A, financings and board work alongside a CFO
• You've led talent-dense teams and managed several outside firms to budget
• You know the right specialist for almost any problem and can get them on the phone today
• You've rebuilt legal work with AI yourself, and can explain concretely how three lawyers plus specialists can match fifteen
• You turn a messy problem into the two or three decisions that matter, and you write short
• You hold a position without starting a war, and you change your mind when the facts change, and you move decisions on trust rather than title
• You move fast enough to make people slightly nervous, and you raise the bar on ambition as much as on rigor
• 10+ years in law, ideally including child-directed products or student data
• Time spent in strategy consulting, operating, finance or engineering
• You've stepped into an existing legal function and made it markedly better, or led a distributed team
• You can tell Dojo's story to a regulator, a reporter or a partner and leave them on our side

Benefits

• Distributed company; hires regardless of location, as long as you are willing to have significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones.

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