Head of Legal

ClassDojo•San Francisco, CA

7d•$220,000 - $325,000•Remote

About The Position

Dojo is seeking a Head of Legal to join its leadership team, work directly with the co-founders, and lead all legal matters across product, privacy, commercial, corporate, employment, intellectual property, regulatory, and litigation. The role inherits a small in-house team, established outside counsel relationships, and existing commercial and privacy processes, with the aim of improving and scaling them. The Head of Legal will help shape Dojo’s approach to emerging issues in children’s technology and build trust with parents and schools while enabling teams to move quickly and responsibly. During the first 18 months, the Head of Legal will help define and publicly communicate Dojo’s positions on issues such as AI interactions with children, children playing together online, and monetization of products for kids. The role will identify meaningful seals and certifications, strengthen privacy as a reason districts choose Dojo, and handle regulatory inquiries in a way that protects products and reputation. The Head of Legal will partner early with product, engineering, and partnerships teams to find workable paths to launch, identify key risks, and give practical next steps. They will accelerate contract and product reviews, create repeatable playbooks for district data agreements, partnerships, and vendor deals, lead and develop a small in-house team, manage outside counsel and budgets, and incorporate AI into legal workflows. Alongside the CFO, the role will also own M&A, financing, and board matters and keep the company prepared for transactions or fundraising. Dojo is distributed and hires regardless of location, provided the employee can maintain significant working-hours overlap with an Americas time zone.

Requirements

Experience leading legal at a consumer technology company with 100 to 1,000 employees, where product and engineering create most of the value.
A track record of helping product and business leaders move faster and finding practical answers; gives recommendations and takes ownership after decisions are made.
Experience owning privacy for a consumer product; ideally, experience with a product for children.
Knowledge of COPPA, FERPA, state student privacy laws, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and emerging AI rules, or the ability to learn quickly and think clearly about these areas.
Comfort managing M&A, financings, and board work alongside a CFO.
Experience leading talent-dense teams and managing multiple outside law firms to budget.
Ability to identify and engage appropriate legal specialists quickly.
Hands-on experience rebuilding legal work with AI and the ability to explain how a small legal team can deliver work that previously required a much larger team.
Ability to distill complex problems into a few important decisions and write concisely.
Ability to hold a position constructively, revise it when facts change, and move decisions through trust rather than title.
Ability to move quickly and raise standards for both ambition and rigor.

Nice To Haves

10 or more years in law, ideally including work with child-directed products or student data.
Experience in strategy consulting, operations, finance, or engineering.
Experience improving an existing legal function significantly or leading a distributed team.
Ability to represent Dojo’s story effectively to regulators, reporters, or partners.

Responsibilities

Lead all legal functions, including product, privacy, commercial, corporate, employment, intellectual property, regulatory, and litigation.
Work directly with the co-founders as a member of the leadership team.
Set and publicly communicate Dojo’s positions on emerging issues in children’s technology, including AI interactions with children, online play, and monetization of products for kids.
Identify relevant seals and certifications and pursue those that influence parents’ or school districts’ decisions.
Strengthen privacy practices and make privacy a reason school districts choose Dojo.
Handle regulatory inquiries while protecting Dojo’s products and reputation.
Partner early with product, engineering, and partnerships teams to provide practical legal advice, identify key obstacles, and support faster product launches.
Turn standard contracts around in hours and product questions around in two days.
Develop playbooks for district data agreements, partnerships, and vendor deals.
Lead and develop the in-house legal team and manage outside counsel to budget and quality expectations.
Integrate AI into contract, data-agreement, and privacy-review workflows; determine which work should be handled in-house and which requires specialists.
Work with the CFO on M&A, financings, and board matters, and keep the company ready to transact or raise funds on short notice.