Director and Managing Counsel, ezCater
$250-366k
+ Equity
More information about location
Online marketplace for business catering
Job no longer available
Online marketplace for business catering
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$250-366k
+ Equity
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide businesses with access to high-quality and fast corporate catering, 24/7.
Role
Who you are
- A Juris Doctor Degree from an ABA-accredited law school and are a good standing member of the bar in at least one state or the District of Columbia
- 10+ years of legal experience, including 5+ years as an in-house attorney managing lawyers and supporting multiple departments with practical legal and business advice
- Experience at a marketplace company with B2B and B2C operations a plus
- A strategic mindset and proven ability to champion change and build operationally excellent processes and practices for providing legal services and advice
- Strong leadership and team management skills with a track record of developing, inspiring and guiding others effectively
- Direct experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts and advising on a broad range of legal issues, including information security, privacy, AI, and intellectual property rights
- A practical, proactive, and business-focused approach to problem-solving, paired with sound decision-making and excellent judgment
- Exceptional interpersonal skills and cultivate meaningful and collaborative relationships with internal stakeholders across various levels of the organization to gain trust, influence decision-making, and drive appropriate outcomes
- A strong work ethic, high standards, impeccable integrity, strong business acumen, and superior oral and written communications skills
What the job involves
- As Director and Managing Counsel, you will lead and oversee commercial legal support to ezCater’s sales, operations, marketing and product teams
- You will set the vision and develop and implement strategies to provide best-in-class commercial legal support for these teams, ensuring your team is a key contributor to the business’ success
- You will serve as both a player and a coach, being lead counsel on some of our most complex and important initiatives and contract negotiations while developing, overseeing, and advising a talented team of commercial lawyers
- You will report to the Chief Legal and People Officer and be a member of the legal leadership team and ezCater’s high-impact extended leadership team
- Proactively partner with sales leaders to develop and implement a market competitive contract strategy that drives enterprise prospect and customer engagement while appropriately mitigating legal and business risk, and successfully lead certain complex contract negotiations
- Upgrade and mature vendor and legal operations to enhance efficiency and consistency of contracting processes and execution; this includes close partnership with the security team
- Collaborate with operations and sales teams to ensure third-party partner agreements and operating requirements meet ezCater's needs to deliver on its mission to land the Perfect Order for its customers
- Identify and integrate next generation tools and processes, including AI, to drive efficiency and optimization of the legal support function
- Develop and implement scalable approaches and processes to provide efficient and effective commercial legal support and guidance to the sales, operations, marketing and product teams
- Be a trusted business partner to the extended leadership team and other key stakeholders in providing practical legal analysis, strategy and advice relating to key business initiatives and complex legal matters
- Partner with legal leadership and other stakeholders to develop and implement initiatives that foster a culture of compliance, integrity and risk awareness across the company
- Build a best-in-class legal team by providing strong mentorship and management, setting high expectations with your own individual contributions, and prioritizing ongoing professional development, learning and benchmarking for you and your team
Our take
ezCater is an online marketplace app that provides catering options for businesses, working with food providers who enter their menus onto the app for customers to browse. ezCater sends each store its orders and handles customer service while the food providers fulfil the orders.
ezCater profits by charging a small commission on all orders that restaurants fulfil. The company counts JLL, RingCentral and the San Francisco 49ers among its customers. It previously fuelled expansion through acquisitions such as online catering platform GoCater in 2018 and MonkeySoft Solutions in 2019.
ezCater has enjoyed strong growth so far, in part by focusing on meal deliveries to a growing hybrid workforce as an employee benefit. It has been eyeing an IPO for some time, though these plans are yet to come to fruition. In the meantime, it has continued to develop its technology and unveiled a new supplier diversity program to uplift small businesses owned by underrepresented groups.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
26% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Dec 2021
$100m
SERIES D
Apr 2019
$150m
SERIES D
Total funding: $433.9m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Vacation
- Stock Options
- Medical & Dental Insurance
- Subsidized MBTA Passes
- 401k Match
- Stocked Kitchen
- Company Outings
- Parental Leave
- Cupcakes
Company HQ
Financial District, Boston, MA
Leadership
Stefania Mallett
(Co-Founder & Director)Former CEO of the company. Studied at MIT before spending 20 years in leadership positions at firms including IntraNet, Taskmail, More than Words, and InSite Marketing Technology.
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