Commercial Counsel, Mill
$175-200k
2+ days a week in office
Food waste recycling subscription company
Open for applications
Food waste recycling subscription company
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$175-200k
2+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To keep food from stinking up your kitchen — and the planet.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience, or 3+ years in a commercial agreements practice group at a firm
- JD from an accredited law school and state bar membership
- Background as part of a start-up legal team or outside counsel to start-up legal teams
- Experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, including creating and refining form agreements
- Generalist skillset, and a willingness and ability to tackle problems outside your core expertise
- Balance an attention to detail with the ability to work very quickly and operate with a pragmatic lens
- Prior experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements with enterprise customers and/or municipalities is a strong plus
- Experience in supply chain/procurement, waste management, environmental compliance/policy, and/or consumer hardware products a plus
- Interest in policy work around waste prevention, circular economy, GHG emissions reduction, and sustainable agriculture practices
- Demonstrated business judgment, and the ability to analyze the costs/benefits of proposed resolutions to legal problems
- Proven ability to build solid, trusting, and credible relationships, including working closely with engineering, product and business teams
- Excellent writing, communication, and people skills
- Hungry to learn every aspect of how a defining company is built
What the job involves
- As Commercial Counsel, you’ll be the third member of the Mill Industries Inc. (Mill) legal team
- You’ll be an integral part of an innovative company, working alongside a dynamic team and top-tier investors to tackle the devastating environmental impact of food waste by creating a first-of-its-kind product and service
- The core of this role is drafting and negotiating commercial agreements to support the growth of our municipal and enterprise channels
- As part of a start-up legal team, you’ll be nimble enough to also work on product matters (privacy, marketing compliance, product safety), corporate legal work, intellectual property, employment issues, and other matters, as needed
- You should be genuinely interested in working on cutting-edge legal and policy issues at the intersection of technology and the environment
- You also need to have the ability to operate independently in a fast-paced setting, strong organizational and communication skills, and a desire to rapidly learn and evolve
- Report to the Mill GC and AGC, leading legal support for our partnerships team as it rapidly scales
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts across the business, including creating new form agreements
- Manage the development and improvement of legal and approval processes, workflow process improvements, company policies, internal training and guides, and templates to scale with the company as it grows. You will be asked to remove and simplify processes in addition to creating new ones
- Identify and strategize about risks across the business in the near- and long-term, including issues related to working with municipalities and non-profits, marketing materials and promotions, and new product features and service models
- Provide solution-oriented legal, regulatory, and strategic advice and direction to Business, Product, Marketing, Communications, Policy, Engineering, and Customer Support from the initial stages of project development to launch and beyond
- Efficiently manage and work with outside counsel to support projects you manage
- Ensure compliance with U.S. and international laws and regulations on privacy and data protection, competition, consumer protection, payments, product safety, and intellectual property
- Build positive relationships across the company and with its external partners
Our take
Wasted food and its decomposition do more for CO2 emissions globally than the entire airline industry combined. Whilst food waste bins run by local councils in the US do redirect the majority of food waste to recycling plants, there are still holes to plug, which is exactly what Mill is doing.
For a yearly subscription, customers can buy and use a combined waste tracking and impact app alongside the company’s purpose-made food waste bin. Unlike other bins for food waste, Mill’s product shrinks and dehydrates waste so that there’s no smell or runoff. Mill will dispose of your waste themselves, and use it for sustainable chicken feed.
With a number of high profile environmentally-friendly investors behind them, the Mill ecosystem has a range of benefits for company subscribers as well as individuals. Restaurants and offices can subscribe to Mill and help to move towards sustainability goals, whilst partnerships with local farms provide a solid revenue structure.
Mill is only available in the US, but since its successful first-gen launch in 2023, it has been using funding from that year to enhance its product offering and reach a wider market.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Sep 2023
$70m
SERIES C
Jan 2023
$100m
LATE VC
Total funding: $170m
Company HQ
San Bruno, CA
Articles
Leadership
Harry Tannenbaum
(President)Previously Director of Hardware at Google, Director of Business Analytics and eCommerce at Nest Labs and Analyst at Gleacher Partner.
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