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Director, Legal

Remote US

Who we are.

Solo.io is reimagining infrastructure for cloud and AI. We unite secure, seamless cloud connectivity with AI-ready, agentic infrastructure, and leading enterprises worldwide trust us to securely connect their applications, services, and AI workloads across any environment.

Joining Solo means working at the center of how enterprises adopt AI: on open source projects built in the open with a global community, alongside the people who created them, for customers who are among the largest in the world. If you want to help organizations accelerate innovation, scale intelligently, and put modern AI agents to work, we’d love to meet you. Learn more at www.solo.io.

About the role.

Solo.io is hiring a Director of Legal to lead our legal work in-house. You'll report to the CFO and work closely with the CEO and leadership team. The role is based in Boston or remote within the US.

You'll be the company's go-to legal partner across commercial contracts, employment, privacy, open source, corporate governance, and strategic matters. You'll handle most work directly and bring in outside counsel when a matter calls for it.

The ideal candidate has a strong commercial contracts background and wants broader exposure across commercial, employment and corporate law as a step toward a General Counsel role.

This role may require occasional travel

Job Description:

  • Review, draft and negotiate customer, partner, reseller and vendor agreements, NDAs and order forms with sales, finance and other teams. This is the heart of the role today.
  • Own our contract templates and playbooks. Update them for current market terms, including AI, data and security provisions.
  • Ensure legal is fast and streamlined. Utilize Ironclad, AI tools, and value added processes to streamline and help legal operate quickly and accurately
  • Advise on data privacy and security commitments, including data processing agreements, GDPR and customer security reviews.
  • Advise on open source licensing, contributor agreements and our participation in open source foundations.
  • Manage outside counsel and the legal budget for specialized matters.
  • Maintain our library of standard documents, policies and procedures.

YOU MAY ALSO

  • Draft and negotiate employment documents, such as specialized offer letters and separation agreements.
  • Support People Ops on compensation, benefits, immigration and international employment matters.
  • Support corporate matters, including board materials, equity administration, entity management, and periodic financing or strategic transactions alongside outside counsel.
  • Help shape internal policies on AI use and governance.
  • Advise on trade compliance and export controls.
  • Review external communications with marketing, including press releases, the website and social media.

Job Requirements:

  • JD from an accredited law school and an active license to practice in at least one US state. You must be able to register as in-house counsel in Massachusetts.
  • 7–10 years of commercial legal experience at a law firm, in-house, or both. In-house experience at a software or SaaS company is strongly preferred.
  • Deep expertise drafting and negotiating enterprise software agreements, including SaaS, licensing, data processing and partner agreements.
  • Comfort working as a team of one. You'll own your work end to end and bring in outside counsel when needed.
  • Sound judgment on legal, commercial and reputational risk, with practical advice that keeps deals moving.
  • Strong organization and the ability to manage many matters at once across teams and time zones.
  • Clear, plain-English communication with engineers, sales leaders and executives.

NICE TO HAVE

  • Experience with open source licensing.
  • Experience with privacy and AI regulation, such as GDPR and the EU AI Act.
  • Exposure to corporate and transactional work, such as financings, equity or M&A.
  • Experience implementing contract management or AI legal tools.

What you’ll love about Solo.

At Solo, our culture is all about hiring great people, creating a fun and fast-paced work culture, and letting our teams work with our customers to successfully solve their challenges.

Solo works collaboratively with our customers, partners and open source communities to deliver technology innovation, technology solutions, architectural best-practices, and hands-on education. Solo uses a unique engagement model with our customers that allows us to quickly make them successful, and continue to work closely with them as their production environments grow.

 

At this time, Solo.io is unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent, ongoing basis without the need for current or future sponsorship.

Solo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

 The company may use AI tools to help sort applicants based on job related criteria. However, the hiring team decides who moves forward and no employment decisions are made by AI.

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