Senior Legal Counsel, Placer.ai
$200-240k
OTE
Location analytics platform
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Location analytics platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-240k
OTE
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide everyone access to large-scale consumer real-world behavior.
Role
Who you are
- The right candidate is a self-starter who is comfortable with ambiguity and able to operate independently with sound judgment after ramping into the business
- You are a commercially minded, legal generalist who can own complex work, build trust quickly and operate with sound judgment in a fast-moving company
- You help business teams make decisions, explain risk clearly and find practical paths forward
- You bring depth in commercial contracting and technology transactions, but also have the range and curiosity to take on new legal areas as the company scales
- You have the judgment to know when to handle a novel matter directly, escalate internally or use outside counsel efficiently
- You don’t wait to be told what to do and you quickly take ownership
- 8+ years of legal experience, including meaningful in-house experience at a technology, SaaS, data, or other high-growth B2B company
- Strong commercial contracting and tech transactions experience, including the ability to lead complex negotiations independently and exercise sound judgment about when to push, compromise, or escalate
- Breadth across legal issues that commonly arise in a scaling tech company, with deep experience in at least one area such as privacy, product counseling, corporate governance, employment, equity or disputes
- Comfortable operating as a senior resource on a lean team and as a strong individual contributor with the judgment, ownership and communication style to grow into broader legal leadership
- Excellent legal judgment and communication skills. You separate real risk from theoretical risk, distill complex legal issues into clear narratives for any audience and calibrate legal risk against business objectives
- Practical fluency with AI and legal technology, including experience building AI-powered workflows, a mindset that sees AI as a force multiplier and good judgment about where these tools can improve legal work and where human review, escalation or additional controls are needed
- J.D. from an accredited law school; active membership in at least one U.S. state bar in good standing
- This is a fully remote position, but due to the nature and requirements of the role, candidates must be based in the U.S
What the job involves
- Placer.ai is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel to join a lean, high-performing Legal team that is close to the business and directly involved in revenue, product, data and strategic company decisions
- Reporting to the GC, this person will focus primarily on complex commercial contracting and data partnerships at the outset, with a broader Legal leadership path over time as the person builds context and trust across the business
- This is a high-ownership role for someone who wants to work on sophisticated commercial, data licensing, privacy, AI, product and strategic partnership issues while helping build the Legal function as the company scales
- You’ll lead important negotiations, improve Legal systems, partner closely with business leaders and take on key Legal projects across areas such as corporate governance, employment, equity, disputes, privacy, product counseling and outside counsel management
- Lead complex commercial negotiations, including enterprise customer MSAs, license agreements, government reseller agreements, professional services agreements, vendor agreements and strategic partnership agreements; serve as a senior escalation point for high-value or complex deals
- Own inbound data provider agreements, including data rights, licensing structures and IP issues that are critical to Placer’s product infrastructure
- Collaborate with GTM, Deal Desk, Partnerships, Security, Product and Compliance on deal structuring, escalations and processes; improve playbooks, templates, fallback positions and standards while giving practical risk guidance
- Lead or support broader Legal workstreams, including corporate governance, employment and HR matters, equity and compensation, pre-litigation disputes, policy development and outside counsel management
- Advise on privacy and data protection matters for Placer’s location analytics platform, partnering with Compliance, Product, Security and Engineering on privacy-by-design practices
- Translate privacy, data and AI governance developments into practical business guidance, with support from subject-matter experts and outside counsel where appropriate
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Compliance, Security and GTM teams on new feature launches, AI-related functionality, data use questions and product risk assessments
- Use and help develop AI tools and legal technology to improve the speed, scale and quality of Legal work, including contract review, research and workflow automation
- Identify recurring Legal and business friction points and turn them into scalable workflows
- What Success Looks Like
- You help deals move faster while maintaining legal discipline. You are trusted by leadership to manage complex negotiations and sensitive situations independently
- You identify recurring issues and build practical systems to solve them
- Over time, you become a go-to Legal partner for broader company priorities and help the function scale with the business
Our take
For businesses of all sizes, measuring traffic can be a critical component in understanding their audiences. Placer provides valuable insight into audiences and competition, by generating traffic analytics that enable companies to discover new business opportunities.
Placer provides accurate foot traffic counts and dwell time, with a range of filtering options that help companies better understand demographics. It also supplies data to help companies deduce how promotions, holidays, seasonality, and events impact business.
In 2022, Placer reached a valuation of $1 billion, and has continued to raise funding in the years since. Though it faces its share of competition, the company's array of insights and expertise has set it apart in the market and enabled it to secure a leading position.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
41% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2024
$75m
LATE VC
Jul 2022
$60m
LATE VC
Total funding: $301m
Company benefits
- Work with, and learn from, top-notch talent
- Fully remote
Company HQ
Santa Cruz, CA
Leadership
Noam Ben-Zvi
(CEO & Co-founder)Studied Computer Science at Tel Aviv. Former Data Science Team Leader for Israel Defense Forces. Co-founder and Head of Product at BlueTail, before co-founding Placer in 2014.
Zohar Bar-Yehuda
(Chief Data Scientist & Co-founder)Gained a Computer Engineering degree at Ben-Gurion University. Formerly a System Architect at Verint, Senior Algorithm Developer at OrCam, before co-founding Placer in 2014.
Oded Fossfeld
(VP (R&D) & Co-founder)Studied Computer Science at Ben Gurion University. They worked as a Software Engineer at Shine, Lacoon Security and Check Point. Co-founded Placer in 2014.
Ofir Lemel
(CPO & Co-founder)Former Lieutenant in 8200 division of Israel Defense Forces. Co-founder at Juntos! and Roamie. Co-founded Placer in 2014.
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