Legal Operations & Compliance Manager, Houzz
$125-140k
Online platform for home design
Posted today
Online platform for home design
1001+ employees
Posted today
$125-140k
1001+ employees
Company mission
Houzz's mission is to deliver the best technology, user experience and products for home remodelling and design.
Role
Who you are
- You are a self-starter who thrives in a dynamic environment. You understand that no two weeks may look alike at a fast-moving tech company and find energy in handling a variety of issues
- You can help put out fires on a day-to-day basis, but also think long-term and build processes for the future. You enjoy and are confident in interacting with people across the organization at all levels of seniority
- A passion for legal, compliance, and privacy matters
- 5+ years experience working on a legal or compliance team in-house or at a law firm
- Experience with legal management tools (e.g., Ironclad, Simple Legal, Box, Salesforce, and Adobe Sign) and other work technology tools (e.g., Google Suite, Slack, and Microsoft Word)
- Flexibility to adapt to changing priorities, business and organizational needs
- The ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, small but growing environment and work proactively with various teams across the organization
- Strong writing skills with a focus on creating clear, concise, and comprehensive documents and reports
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey legal and privacy concepts and requirements to non-technical stakeholders
- Self-motivated and capable of working independently with minimal supervision in a fully remote setting
- Experience in managing privacy programs and ensuring ongoing compliance across an organization
- Industry privacy certifications, such as CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT, or CISSP, are a bonus
What the job involves
- The Legal Operations & Compliance Manager will play a pivotal role in helping the Legal team perform at a high level
- The person in this role will enhance and maintain the critical workstreams and infrastructure that enable Houzz’s Legal Team to accelerate the company’s continued growth and success, while also handling day-to-day tasks to support our attorneys
- The role is fully remote and will report to the General Counsel
- This role involves designing, implementing, and overseeing processes, technologies, and strategies to enhance the efficiency, transparency, and overall performance of the Legal Team
- You will collaborate closely with other members of the Legal Team, cross-functional stakeholders, and external vendors to drive effective legal operations
- You will also use your broad understanding of in-house legal department practices and client service orientation to support the company’s corporate compliance, dispute resolution, and privacy-related matters
- Manage Legal’s Processes, Systems, and Technology: Manage and continuously improve the Legal Team’s processes, systems, and technology including:
- Own and administer the Legal Team’s technology tools (e.g., a CLM tool like Ironclad and matter and spend management software like SimpleLegal)
- Manage workflows for the company’s NDAs, DPAs, contractor agreements, and other agreement types. Review and negotiate third-party agreements
- Identify and implement solutions to improve knowledge management and access to information within the team and across the organization
- Develop and oversee training and user adoption of new solutions
- Build out internal Legal intranet pages and maintain a consistent cadence of communication relating to Legal initiatives
- Corporate Compliance:
- Maintain business qualifications for domestic and international entities
- Coordinate with outside counsel on routine corporate filings for entity changes
- Data Analytics and Reporting:
- Manage contract renewal reporting process
- Compile, analyze, and report on metrics to assess efficient utilization of Legal Team resources and achieve greater productivity, while ensuring alignment with the team’s objectives
- Project Management:
- Provide project management support for the Legal team, including project plan development, status management, and task tracking
- Simultaneously manage multiple projects in a fast-paced environment and prioritize projects along with ad hoc requests/initiatives
- Support Privacy Program:
- Work with our Chief Privacy Officer to plan and maintain an engagement strategy, define objectives, and address privacy-related controls, risks, and issues
- Assist with ROPA, PIA, DPA’s and other key privacy documents
- Manage calendars for updating external and internal privacy policies and guidelines
- Litigation & Dispute Resolution Support:
- Track and respond to a wide variety of inquiries, including from customers, regulators, and creditors (UCC notices)
- Respond to subpoenas
- Maintain a robust template library and constantly improve on the substance of the responses
- Support litigation and dispute resolution matters
Our take
Redecorating a house can be costly, time-consuming and needlessly confusing. Houzz’s online decorating platform solves this problem by connecting homeowners, design enthusiasts, and decorating professionals.
Houzz was first launched as a side project, but has since grown to become a community of millions. Its connectivity and practicality have allowed Houzz to scale at an impressive rate, with its progress being considerably accelerated by the boom in home renovations projects taken on during the pandemic.
The company's strong profile allowed Houzz to become a major player in the home improvement space, and it expressed hopes to go public. Macroeconomic conditions, however, have put these plans on hold, with the company instead having to lay-off a number of employees late in 2022. Despite this, the company appears hopeful it can retain its market leadership and return to planning its IPO when conditions have improved.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2017
$400m
LATE VC
Oct 2014
$165m
SERIES D
Total funding: $613.6m
Company benefits
- Flexible paid time off
- Commuter benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and pet insurance
- Maternity/paternity leave
- Employee assistance program
- 401k retirement savings plan
- Flexible spending accounts
- Healthy at Houzz program
Company HQ
University South, Palo Alto, CA
Leadership
Adi Tatarko
(CEO)Previously worked at an investment firm.
Alon Cohen
(President)9 years experience as Senior Director of Engineering at eBay. Previously an Engineering Manager for the Israeli Defense Forces.
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