Director and Managing Counsel (Remote)

ezCater is the leading food for work technology company in the US, connecting anyone who needs food for their workplace to over 100,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from recurring employee meals to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 customer service with real humans. ezCater also enables companies to manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps them grow their business by bringing them more orders and new high-value customers.  We're backed by top investors including Insight, Iconiq, Lightspeed, GIC, SoftBank, and Quadrille.

As Director and Managing Counsel, you will lead and oversee commercial legal support to ezCater’s sales, operations, marketing and product teams. You will set the vision and develop and implement strategies to provide best-in-class commercial legal support for these teams, ensuring your team is a key contributor to the business’ success. You will serve as both a player and a coach, being lead counsel on some of our most complex and important initiatives and contract negotiations while developing, overseeing, and advising a talented team of commercial lawyers. You will report to the Chief Legal and People Officer and be a member of the legal leadership team and ezCater’s high-impact extended leadership team.

What You'll Do:

• Proactively partner with sales leaders to develop and implement a market competitive contract strategy that drives enterprise prospect and customer engagement while appropriately mitigating legal and business risk, and successfully lead certain complex contract negotiations.
  
• Upgrade and mature vendor and legal operations to enhance efficiency and consistency of contracting processes and execution; this includes close partnership with the security team.
  
• Collaborate with operations and sales teams to ensure third-party partner agreements and operating requirements meet ezCater's needs to deliver on its mission to land the Perfect Order for its customers.
  
• Identify and integrate next generation tools and processes, including AI, to drive efficiency and optimization of the legal support function.
  
• Develop and implement scalable approaches and processes to provide efficient and effective commercial legal support and guidance to the sales, operations, marketing and product teams.
  
• Be a trusted business partner to the extended leadership team and other key stakeholders in providing practical legal analysis, strategy and advice relating to key business initiatives and complex legal matters.
  
• Partner with legal leadership and other stakeholders to develop and implement initiatives that foster a culture of compliance, integrity and risk awareness across the company.
  
• Build a best-in-class legal team by providing strong mentorship and management, setting high expectations with your own individual contributions, and prioritizing ongoing professional development, learning and benchmarking for you and your team.

What You Have: (insert details here in bullet format)

• A Juris Doctor Degree from an ABA-accredited law school and are a good standing member of the bar in at least one state or the District of Columbia.
  
• 10+ years of legal experience, including 5+ years as an in-house attorney managing lawyers and supporting multiple departments with practical legal and business advice.
  
• Experience at a marketplace company with B2B and B2C operations a plus.
  
• A strategic mindset and proven ability to champion change and build operationally excellent processes and practices for providing legal services and advice.
  
• Strong leadership and team management skills with a track record of developing, inspiring and guiding others effectively.
  
• Direct experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts and advising on a broad range of legal issues, including information security, privacy, AI, and intellectual property rights.
  
• A practical, proactive, and business-focused approach to problem-solving, paired with sound decision-making and excellent judgment.
  
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and cultivate meaningful and collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders across various levels of the organization to gain trust, influence decision-making, and drive appropriate outcomes.
  
• A strong work ethic, high standards, impeccable integrity, strong business acumen, and superior oral and written communications skills.
  

The national cash compensation range for this role is $250,000 - $366,000 per year.*

*Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).

Please have fun with the Cover Letter portion of the application! It does not need to follow “traditional” cover letter guidelines - we would love for you to write 150-500 words explaining why you are interested in ezCater and the role, and highlighting anything else you think we should know!

ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.

What You’ll Get from Us:

You’ll get a terrifically compelling experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You’ll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a  place that values work/life harmony. 

Oh, and you’ll get all this: Market competitive salary, stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot, 12 paid holidays, flexible PTO, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, mental health and family planning resources, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office, a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, Relish (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office, and knowing that you helped transform the food for work space.

ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones. Following a conditional offer of employment, ezCater may require a background check.

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