VP of Legal

The role

The Head of Legal will own the day-to-day legal function at Dispatch. This individual contributor role involves managing commercial contracts, privacy and data matters, and legal processes to support company growth.

What you will do

• Own the commercial contracting function including drafting and negotiating MSAs, order forms, and enterprise agreements.
• Lead negotiations with enterprise customers and their legal, procurement, privacy, and security teams.
• Build and maintain contract templates, negotiation playbooks, and approval thresholds.
• Evaluate and implement systems to improve contract intake, negotiation, and management.
• Draft and negotiate data processing agreements, privacy terms, and security addenda.
• Advise on breach notification, data residency, subprocessors, and AI-related restrictions.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Security on legal implications of new products and data flows.
• Support enterprise security reviews and compliance processes like SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
• Provide legal support on routine employment matters and operational agreements.
• Identify matters requiring specialized expertise and manage outside counsel.

Required qualifications

• JD from a top law school.
• Active membership in good standing with the bar of at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 5–15 years of legal experience.
• 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 closely related practice area.
• Direct experience negotiating MSAs, order forms, and multi-year enterprise agreements for a B2B SaaS company.
• Direct experience negotiating DPAs and security addenda.
• Experience reviewing and structuring third-party data-sharing arrangements.
• General employment law experience.
• Experience determining when specialized legal advice is required and scoping and managing outside counsel.
• Experience working at a company that had fewer than 250 employees when you joined, or that was Series C or earlier.
• Strong business judgment and the ability to distinguish material risk from theoretical risk.

Nice to have

• Experience serving as a company's first legal hire.
• Experience transitioning significant legal responsibilities from outside counsel to an internal legal function.
• Experience building contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval frameworks, and fallback positions from the ground up.
• Working knowledge of the financial services ecosystem, including wealth managers, asset managers, and custodians.
• Experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, enterprise security reviews, or related compliance programs.
• Experience evaluating, selecting, or implementing contract lifecycle management software.

About the company

Dispatch is an early-stage company looking for a Head of Legal to own the day-to-day legal function.