Head of Legal

The role

The Head of Legal will sit on the leadership team and work directly with co-founders. You will own all legal areas including product, privacy, commercial, corporate, employment, IP, regulatory and litigation.

What you will do

• Decide where Dojo stands on kids' tech questions regarding AI and online play
• Win seals and certifications to build trust with parents and districts
• Make privacy a reason why districts pick Dojo
• Handle regulators to protect product and reputation
• Partner with product, engineering and partnerships to enable faster shipping
• Turn standard contracts into hours and product questions into two days
• Write playbooks for district data agreements, partnerships and vendor deals
• Lead and grow a small in-house team
• Manage outside counsel to budget and standards
• Own M&A, financing and board matters with the CFO

Required qualifications

• Led legal at a consumer tech company of 100 to 1,000 people
• Owned privacy for a consumer product across COPPA, FERPA, state student privacy laws, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR and new AI rules
• Comfortable running M&A, financings and board work
• Led talent-dense teams and managed several outside firms to budget
• Rebuilt legal work with AI

Nice to have

• 10+ years in law, ideally including child-directed products or student data
• Time spent in strategy consulting, operating, finance or engineering
• Stepped into an existing legal function and made it markedly better, or led a distributed team
• Can tell Dojo's story to a regulator, a reporter or a partner

About the company

Dojo is a distributed company used in 95% of US K-8 schools and by 1 in 4 American families. Its mission is to give every child on Earth an education they love.