Head of Legal, Owner.com
$225-275k
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Online ordering and restaurant marketing system
Open for applications
Online ordering and restaurant marketing system
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$225-275k
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give independent restaurants the infrastructure tools they need to compete with larger corporations.
Role
Who you are
- 8–10 years of legal experience, ideally with experience in both law firm and in-house environments
- A full-stack legal athlete with experience across commercial, corporate, compliance, IP, employment, and litigation management
- A builder mentality - excited to design legal systems, implement processes, and establish standards
- A proactive operator with a strong bias to action, capable of serving as DRI for mission-critical company priorities
- Exceptional judgment and the ability to see around corners, providing not just legal answers but strategic guidance aligned with Owner’s long-term goals
- Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where decisions must be made quickly and with incomplete information
- Ability to partner closely with product and engineering teams, translating product risks into crisp decisions and enabling rapid innovation
- A future leader motivated to scale the Legal team after establishing foundational systems
What the job involves
- Owner is hiring our first Head of Legal to build, scale, and lead the Legal function from the ground up. As our business accelerates - expanding product surfaces, navigating regulatory expectations, entering strategic partnerships, and shaping the future of restaurant technology - we need a legal leader who can operate with speed, clarity, and judgment
- This is a foundational role. You will own our full legal stack: corporate, compliance, employment, IP, and litigation. You will drive our most sensitive initiatives as the accountable DRI, while also architecting the systems, processes, and norms that allow Legal to scale
- You will be supported by excellent outside counsel across domains, but your superpower is knowing when to leverage firms versus when to move fast internally
- Success in this role looks like being a proactive, strategic, and embedded legal partner who sees around corners and builds durable foundations
- This role is ideal for a builder with both firm and in-house experience who is energized by being hands-on, creating structure from ambiguity, and shaping a world-class Legal function from day one
- Build and scale Owner’s Legal function as the company’s first full-time legal hire, establishing the frameworks, tooling, and operating norms that enable rapid growth
- Serve as strategic DRI on the company’s most sensitive and high-impact matters, including litigation strategy, negotiations, regulatory posture, and complex commercial agreements
- Partner closely with Product and Engineering to ensure new products, pricing models, integrations, and financial infrastructure are built with compliance and risk minimization in mind
- Design scalable systems across contracting, compliance, employment, corporate governance, privacy, and IP, ensuring clarity, speed, and auditability
- Lead Owner’s litigation strategy end-to-end, including outside counsel engagement, negotiation posture, documentation, and executive communication
- Proactively identify risk areas across the business and build policies, processes, and internal education to mitigate them before they become issues
- Support strategic partnerships/transactions, board matters, fundraising, corporate governance, and investor communications
- Establish the legal architecture needed for Owner’s next phase of scale, creating the foundations for a function that can grow alongside the business
- Earn deep trust across the organization by combining clarity of judgment with a bias to action, moving fast while elevating Owner’s risk standards
- Report directly to the CFO while partnering with leadership teams across Engineering, Product & Design (EPD), GTM, People, Finance, Ops, and the Executive team
- Manage and direct a network of top-tier outside counsel across corporate, regulatory, product, employment, and litigation
- Act as a strategic partner to the CEO on sensitive legal negotiations and litigation matters, with an expectation of progressing conversations independently
Our take
The Pandemic caused a major upheaval in the US restaurant industry. Smaller operations struggled to stay afloat amidst brick-and-mortar closures, and as the demand for home delivery soared their margins were tightened further by hefty third-party delivery app charges. Add to that the fact that consumers become customers of the delivery app, not the restaurant itself, and it’s a development that has spelt real trouble for independent locales. Owner has set out to level the playing field.
Owner’s platform provides independent restaurants with the infrastructure they need to take control of their business without deferring to third-party apps like GrubHub and Deliveroo. It offers marketing, online ordering, and support solutions to over 10,000 restaurants across the U.S. The company has taken impressive first strides, too: they have a 7 figure run-rate, over 105% monthly revenue retention, and helped restaurants avoid millions in online order platform fees.
It’s a hugely attractive proposition for independent business owners, and research suggests it’s a winning idea for consumers too. Over 60% say they’d prefer to deal with restaurants directly, but historically the infrastructure simply hasn’t been in place to do so. With Owner seeing impressive traction by tripling its customers between 2023 and 2024, it's unsurprising that its 2025 funding is being channelled into engineering and design teams, alongside the development of new tools.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
75% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2025
$120m
SERIES C
Jan 2024
$33m
SERIES B
Total funding: $182.2m
Company benefits
- Work from anywhere: Our flexible policy lets you work from wherever you want.
- Equity in Owner: All full-time employees in eligible countries receive pre-IPO equity in Owner.
- Benefits to support your success: We set you up for success where you are and where you’re going.
- Healthcare Coverage: We offer comprehensive health, dental and vision plans.
- Unlimited PTO: Your schedule, your choice. We give our team members full empowerment to choose the time they want to work, and don’t micro-manage working hours.
- Team retreats: We love building real friendships with everyone that we work with, so we do several retreats per year – to deepen our friendships, celebrate our wins, and plan our future.
Company HQ
Presidio of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Adam Guild
(Co-Founder & CEO)Thiel Fellow, Forbes 30 Under 30 List.
Dean Bloembergen
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously Co-founder and CTO at Marble Technologies, Forbes 30 under 30.
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