Head of Legal

What You’ll Do:

Commercial and Go-to-Market Legal

• Own legal review and negotiation for customer, partner, vendor, agency, publisher, and enterprise agreements.
• Partner closely with Sales, Partnerships, Customer Success, Marketplace, Finance, and Product to unblock deals while protecting the company.
• Build scalable contract templates, playbooks, fallback positions, and approval workflows.
• Support enterprise sales motions, including MSAs, DPAs, security reviews, procurement redlines, and custom commercial terms.
• Advise on marketplace, affiliate, creator, influencer, and paid media partnership structures.

Platform, Product, and Compliance

• Own and evolve Levanta’s Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, creator terms, seller terms, marketplace policies, and related platform rules.
• Advise Product and Engineering on legal issues related to attribution, payments, data usage, creator-brand relationships, affiliate programs, and platform expansion.
• Support compliance with privacy, data protection, advertising, marketing, consumer protection, and platform partner requirements.
• Help the company navigate evolving marketplaces and platforms like Amazon, Walmart, TikTok Shop, Shopify, Meta, Google, and other ecosystem partners.
• Develop practical internal policies that allow the business to scale without unnecessary friction.

International, Employment, and Operating Risk

• Advise on international expansion, cross-border operations, and market-specific legal risk as Levanta grows globally.
• Partner with Finance, People, Product, and GTM teams on entity formation, EOR arrangements, contractor structures, employment risk, taxable presence, and local operating models.
• Manage local counsel in priority jurisdictions and translate legal advice into clear, practical business recommendations.
• Support international customer, vendor, partner, creator, and agency agreements.
• Advise on cross-border data, privacy, employment, IP protection, payments, anti-bribery, sanctions, and regulatory considerations.
• Help build internal policies and approval processes for international hiring, contracting, sales activity, and vendor management.

Corporate, Governance, and Risk

• Manage corporate governance, board consents, equity matters, investor requests, financing support, and corporate housekeeping.
• Partner with Finance an