Associate General Counsel

We're quickly growing and super excited for you to join us!

About Topsort

We empower omni-channel retailers, marketplaces, and delivery apps in 40+ countries with AI-driven, privacy-first ad tech—helping them scale and optimize retail media like never before.

At Topsort, we’re customer-focused, product-led, and committed to privacy by design. Our mission? To make advertising smarter, intuitive, and actually cool—without the creepy tracking (except for chocolate chip cookies 🍪).

We’re redefining e-commerce growth with our next-gen media infrastructure:

🔹 Democratizing auction-based ad tech—the backbone of Amazon, Google, and Meta ads
🔹 AI-powered, privacy-first advertising using cutting-edge machine learning

About the Role

We’re looking for a driven, tactical, and lightning-fast In-House Counsel to join our dynamic and growing U.S. team!

In this role, you’ll be the key to unlocking Topsort’s next stage of growth, building a strong and flexible legal foundation, and supporting complex negotiations with top retailers, marketplaces, and delivery apps across the U.S. and Canada.

Key Obligations

• Team Collaboration: Embrace Topsort’s “sports team” mentality, working closely with product, engineering, and sales teams across different regions to deepen sales knowledge, exchange insights, and secure deals.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Become an authority on the AdTech industry, Topsort’s products, and the retail media landscape, while staying up to date on evolving E-commerce regulations.
• Commercial & API Negotiations: Demonstrate strong judgment and relentless focus in handling commercial client negotiations and API agreements.
• Cross-Border Legal Affairs: Support international operations, managing cross-border contracts, export controls, tax compliance, and ensuring adherence to global regulatory requirements.
• Risk Management: Work with leadership to creatively evaluate, mitigate, and manage risk across internal and external stakeholders.
• Compliance & Contracting: Collaborate with operations, commercial, and finance teams to establish best practices for compliance and contracting.

Requirements

• Education & Licensing: Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school; licensed to practice law in the U.S.
• Legal Expertise: Strong skills in legal writing and commercial negotiation; expertise in MA or CA employment law is a plus.
• Startup Mindset: Ability to work hard, move fast, and adapt to a dynamic environment.
• Problem-Solver: A self-starter who finds the right answers before asking questions.
• Industry Curiosity: Eager to self-educate and become an expert in auction engines, retail media, and marketplace monetization.
• Team Player: Success at Topsort is about collaboration, not lone-wolf strategies.
• Work Setup: Onsite in Boston 4 days a week, with the ability to travel domestically and internationally for industry events and client meetings.

Topsort Culture

If you’re feeling like just another cog ⚙️ in the machine—where decisions are made above you, impact feels diluted, and you’re competing internally as one of thousands—then it’s time for a change.

At Topsort, your ideas don’t get lost in layers of approval. You’ll have direct access to C-level leaders, the ability to make real impact fast, and the chance to shape the market at an accelerated pace. We only hire the best—people with a sports spirit, a shark mindset, and a drive to win externally while collaborating internally.

• Direct and Speedy: We work hard, set aggressive goals and execute flawlessly to accomplish them. We give candid feedback, push each other to set higher goals and produce more impact by always thinking “how do we do this faster and better”
• Constant Improvement: The best way to grow is by doing. Topsort team is made of action-driven, intelligent, and curious individuals who are constantly seeking improvements and reinventions that lead to a better output and never content with the status quo.
• Embrace a Sports Team Mentality: We are all helpful and collaborative internally. You are ultimately surrounded by just different people that are all here to help you get the job done and shine as a team. 
• Silicon Valley to the World: We were born in the pandemic by Stanford and Harvard alum cofounders who offer remote-working options with coworking memberships and (at least) once a year in person offsite gathering. You’ll be welcomed by coworkers in 11 countries that all bring a unique perspective to the company from day 1.
• Valued for Your Individuality: From personalized birthday gifts to work anniversaries, and management training program or in-person gatherings or career talks and mentorships, part-time DJs and tik-tok vloggers are also commercial leaders and technical staff at Topsort. We don’t take management with a cookie cutter approach - but rather we cherish your quarks and think it makes us stronger. 

Topsort is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Do you sound like the right fit? Let's dive right in!