Interim General Counsel

Dollar Shave Club • Durham, NC

6d • Remote

About The Position

As the Interim General Counsel (Maternity Coverage), you will lead the legal team providing timely, high quality, and commercially minded legal support to our business partners. Reporting to the Chief Executive Officer, you will serve as part of the organization’s Executive Team acting as a strategic partner to offer counsel on legal issues, ensuring legal compliance and limiting risk exposure. You will advise the company on a broad range of legal areas including corporate affairs, commercial transactions, advertising/marketing clearance, data privacy, intellectual property, and other matters.

Requirements

• JD degree with license to practice with at least one state bar; must be in good standing.
• At least 10+ years of generalist legal experience; prior experience working in-house is required.
• Deep experience drafting and negotiating broad range of commercial contracts.
• Strong working knowledge of data use and protection laws (including state/federal consumer protection and privacy laws, CCPA, GDPR and other global privacy laws), consumer protection frameworks, retail and e-commerce law, and marketing/advertising compliance.
• Exceptional written and oral communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to distill complex legal issues for both legal and non-legal audiences.
• Ability to handle a high-degree ambiguity, prioritize, multi-task, and manage multiple cross-functional projects to completion with little direction, and quickly shift from one situation or task to another.
• Ability to work under pressure while maintaining a sense of humor.

Nice To Haves

• Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) experience and/or ecommerce experience strongly preferred.
• Understanding of best practices in managing intellectual property interests in transactional matters preferred, but not required.

Responsibilities

• Manage, mentor, and develop a team of legal professionals — setting priorities, allocating workload across business partner functions, and managing outside counsel relationships and budgets.
• Provide advice regarding transactional and corporate governance matters.
• Provide legal support for a wide variety of commercial contracts, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating service and vendor agreements, licensing agreements, manufacturing and supplier agreements, leases, and employment and consulting agreements.
• Advise Brand on owned and paid media, influencer and brand ambassador agreements, sponsorships, experiential marketing and events, creative content, and sweepstakes and promotions, while helping shape DSC’s broader commercial strategy for consumer products.
• Counsel Direct to Consumer team on e-commerce and online sales practices, including website terms of service and privacy policy, disclosures, and checkout flows. Advise on subscription, auto-renewal, and negative-option programs to ensure compliance with applicable federal and state requirements governing disclosures, consent, and cancellation.
• Advise cross-functional teams on compliance with areas of data use and protection laws, including state/federal consumer protection and privacy laws, GDPR and other global privacy laws.
• Other duties as assigned or necessary.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree