Senior Counsel, Litigation & Disputes

About the Role

Apollo is looking for a skilled litigator to own our litigation and disputes function — a high-judgment, high-visibility role at the center of our legal risk strategy. This person will manage Apollo's active litigation portfolio, build the infrastructure and processes that keep the company ahead of legal exposure, and serve as the primary in-house voice on disputes strategy reporting to the Senior Director, Risk & Regulatory. The right person is a seasoned litigator — comfortable owning matters end-to-end, managing outside counsel with a sharp eye on cost and strategy, and translating complex legal risk into business-ready guidance. This is not a narrow or reactive role: you will manage an active matter in the morning and brief a product team on emerging exposure in the afternoon. This role is remote; periodic in-person offsites are part of our culture.

Key Responsibilities

• Owning Apollo's litigation portfolio end-to-end — managing active disputes, pre-litigation demand letters, regulatory inquiries, and arbitrations across commercial, employment, and data-related matters
• Serving as primary in-house point of contact with outside litigation counsel: scoping engagements, controlling spend, driving strategy, and keeping leadership informed with clear and timely updates
• Building and maintaining litigation infrastructure: legal hold procedures, matter tracking, outside counsel guidelines, and internal escalation protocols
• Partnering with Privacy, Compliance, and Security teams on data retention guidelines
• Advising cross-functional stakeholders — Sales, Product, Engineering, People — on litigation risk, preservation obligations, and dispute-avoidance strategy in plain, actionable terms
• Identifying patterns across the litigation portfolio that signal systemic product, operational, or contractual risk and surfacing those insights proactively to leadership
• Supporting the broader legal team on commercial disputes arising from customer and vendor agreements, including working closely with Commercial Counsel on escalated matters
• Managing discovery workstreams, including coordinating with internal teams on document collection and review and managing e-discovery vendors where applicable

Qualifications

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