Senior Legal Counsel

The role

You will advise the business on commercial, corporate governance, employment, equity, transactions, data privacy, product, and intellectual property matters. You will also build processes, templates, playbooks, and systems to help the legal team scale.

What you will do

• Draft, review, and negotiate vendor, partnership, sales, and other commercial agreements.
• Advise on data privacy compliance efforts.
• Advise on equity matters, including equity plans, grants, and related compliance.
• Advise on board-related matters, including board materials and corporate governance.
• Advise on consumer protection, advertising, endorsements, promotions, CAN-SPAM, TCPA, FTC guidance, and other customer-facing legal requirements.
• Advise on intellectual property and trademark matters.
• Partner with HR on employment-related matters.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Design teams throughout the product development lifecycle.
• Help build and improve legal operations, including template and playbook development, contract management, legal intake, knowledge management, workflows, automation, and internal processes.
• Leverage AI and legal technology to automate repetitive work and help the Legal team scale.

Required qualifications

• JD from an accredited law school
• Active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, or eligibility to register as in-house counsel where required.
• 6+ years of relevant legal experience, including meaningful in-house experience.
• Working experience in commercial contracts and at least one additional practice area, such as corporate governance, data privacy, equity, or employment.
• Strong legal judgment and the ability to translate complex legal requirements into clear, practical business guidance.
• Experience operating in resource-constrained or fast-moving environments where prioritization, judgment, and adaptability are essential.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and comfort taking ownership of matters that may fall outside your existing expertise.
• Living on the East Coast

Nice to have

• Strong substantive experience in data privacy and product counseling, including CCPA, GDPR, and emerging privacy regimes.
• Experience building or scaling legal processes, templates, playbooks, contract management systems, or other legal operations infrastructure.
• Comfort using AI-assisted legal tools and a bias toward automating repetitive work.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• Sick Days
• Paid National Holidays
• Medical, dental, vision and short-term/long-term disability plans
• Employee assistance program
• 401(k) eligible after your first 90 day's employed
• Sponsor multiple events throughout the year to help out our communities

About the company

Material Bank is the world’s largest material marketplace for the architecture and design industry. It connects thousands of designers with tens of thousands of materials from leading brands.