Head of Legal, Vonage
Product, Technology, and Data
$230.3-302k
+ Bonus
Cloud-based communications APIs
Be an early applicant
Cloud-based communications APIs
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$230.3-302k
+ Bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make communications more flexible, intelligent, and personal to help enterprises stay ahead.
Role
Who you are
- Admitted to at least one state bar in the US (or UK-qualified solicitor or barrister in the UK) with 10+ years post-bar admission/qualification experience, including experience in in-house setting focusing on product counseling, technology law and privacy/data protection
- Strong in-house legal experience in fast-paced technology, enterprise, SaaS, or cloud communications companies
- Proven experience managing and leading team of attorneys and legal professionals, including direct and indirect teams across high-growth organizations, to provide outcome based and simplified solutions, including streamlined procedures and and third party positions
- Skilled in successfully navigating cross-functional teams and coordinating in advance with stakeholders across highly matrixed organizations
- Deep expertise in managing broad scope and complex product legal guidance, including data, privacy, artificial intelligence, communications, marketing, and intellectual property for technology enterprises, with experience building innovative and simplified solutions early in the product lifecycle
- Exceptional attention to detail, verbal/written communication, and diplomacy to drive consensus
- Proactive, self-motivated leader with proven leadership, multitasking and stakeholder management skills
- High integrity with a commitment to ethical standards and effective leadership
- Business-oriented mindset with strong acumen, problem-solving and project management skills. Demonstrated ability to translate complex legal issues into actionable, business-friendly advice
- You don't need all the preferred qualifications to make a valuable impact on our team. Our employees and customers come from diverse backgrounds, so if you're passionate about what you could achieve at Vonage, we'd love to hear from you
What the job involves
- Vonage is looking for an experienced and dynamic full-time Product, Technology and Data Attorney to lead and manage a team of attorneys and legal professionals responsible for supporting our product, technology licensing, intellectual property, communications, and critical data matters, including global privacy compliance and the legal implications of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- This leader will serve as a key legal and strategic business advisor to business leadership, including global product, engineering and marketing teams, ensuring the company’s innovation is protected and compliant with laws and regulations worldwide
- Provide leadership and legal guidance as a strategic business partner who is wanted in the room to execute growth plans in direct partnership with the Vice President of APIs, and Product, Architecture, Data, Developers, Marketing/Communations, and Intellectual Property leadership
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team of attorneys and legal professionals working as one-team that is open and inclusive, fostering a culture of integrity and compliance, business partnership, and professional development with simple, outcome based solutions that support the company's product roadmap, technology initiatives, and long-term business goals
- Facilitate and execute impactful and outcome based solutions while leading and encouraging continuous learning, curiosity and innovation to enable swift and well informed product, technology and data decisions that accelerate growth
- Develop and support customer-friendly, compliant, and risk-appropriate solutions for products that can be easily built into Vonage operations
- Serve as the Legal Department’s subject matter expert in relation to Vonage products, data, and intellectual property consideration. Direct the company’s global data and privacy compliance, providing expert counsel on regulations such as GDPR, CCPA, AI and Data Act, and emerging global data laws. Implement legal frameworks and easy to understand policies for the responsible and compliant development and deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) technologies. Lead team that advises on data governance, data security, data retention, and legal obligations related to data responsibilities
- Collaborate with product, legal/compliance and marketing to ensure E2E support for Vonage products and services
- Oversee the strategic management and protection of the company’s global IP portfolio, in partnership with Vonage parent organization, including patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. Implement simplified internal policies and training to ensure compliance with open source licenses and best practices for internal IP generation and defense, and provide legal guidance on technology-driven transactions, strategic partnerships, and M&A due diligence
- Report to the General Counsel, Vonage
- Be comfortable working with international counterparties and engage important stakeholders across the broader organization within diverse jurisdictions
- Enhance and standardize positions and procedures for a global framework that enables effective E2E management of operations, including providing key product decisions and visibility across legal partners and business stakeholders
- Manage external counsel engagement, budgets, and relationships for specialized legal matters
Our take
According to Vonage, technology should make business communication easier, but it currently makes it more complicated due to the various communication platforms that users need to spend time learning how to use. Moreover, users often realize that the platform is not the right choice for them after wasting a lot of time understanding how to navigate it. Vonage aims to change this by providing enterprises with a flexible cloud communications platform that simplifies business communication.
Vonage offers a unified communications solution that is easy to understand and use every day. The platform integrates communication via voice, messaging, video, and data and gives clients the flexibility to choose from a wide range of tools and integrations or to create new ones using Vonage's APIs.
Following its acquisition by Ericsson - a multinational networking and telecommunications company - Vonage has been focused on expanding its presence in wireless enterprises and broadening its global offerings. As part of this, it recently announced a collaboration with AWS, to integrate Amazon Nova Sonic with the Vonage Voice API. This collaboration further strengthens Vonage;'s position in the rapidly growing AI-driven communications market and lays the groundwork for accelerated innovation and global growth.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Aug 2005
$200m
SERIES E
Aug 2004
$105m
SERIES D
Total funding: $372m
Company benefits
- Medical, Dental, & Vision Coverage
- Paid Time Off
- Tution Reimbursement
- Retirement Plan
- Maternity/Paternity Leave
- Health Savings Account
- Legal Plan
- Auto, Home, & Pert Insurance
- And More!
Company HQ
Holmdel, NJ
Leadership
Niklas Heuveldop
(CEO)Niklas has been part of Ericsson since 2005, joining as a VP of Sales American Business Unit Networks. Since then, he has held numerous roles and became the CEO of Vonage and Head of Business Global Communication Platforms in 2024.
Pam Hehn Schroeder
(CFO)Pam has been part of Ericsson since 2001, joining as a Finance Leader, REgions, Broadband & Media Accounts. Since then, she has held a number of roles and became CFO of Vonage in 2024.
Neelam Sandhu
(CMO)Neelam joined Vonage as CMO in 2025. Prior to this, she spent 15 years at BlackBerry as CMO and CCO.
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