As Kiddom's first legal counsel, you'll draft and review agreements, provide negotiation support, ensure compliance, assess risks, and improve processes across departments.
About Kiddom
Kiddom is a groundbreaking educational platform that promotes student equity and growth by uniting high-quality instructional materials with dynamic digital learning. Through unparalleled curriculum management functionality, Kiddom empowers schools and districts to take ownership of their curriculum – resulting in learning experiences tailored to meet the unique needs and goals of local communities. Kiddom’s high-quality curriculum is layered with robust teacher and leader data insights to drive the continuous improvement of instructional decisions, school/district programming, and professional learning.
As Kiddom’s first dedicated legal counsel, you will use your deep understanding of legal contracts and organizational partnerships to support and protect our rapidly growing business. Reporting to the VP of Strategy and Operations, this individual will collaborate across departments, and ultimately be responsible for:
You Will...
- Drafting & Reviewing Agreements: Creating, reviewing, and refining legal documents, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and alignment with company goals
- Negotiation Support: Collaborating in negotiations, protecting and enforcing the company’s interests
- Compliance Assurance: Ensuring Kiddom is set up to comply with relevant commercial, transactional, and privacy laws & regulations
- Risk Assessment: Identifying potential legal risks and proposing practical solutions to mitigate them
- Process Improvement: Developing standard templates and streamlining processes for recurring legal needs to enhance consistency and scalability
This role will interface directly with Counsel representing clients, partners, and vendors.
What we're looking for...
- You have demonstrated success working across a wide range of legal matters, including oversight for all corporate reporting and obligations, and corporate governance experience (including management of board and committee).
- You’re an excellent oral and written communicator, able to synthesize and present complex ideas simply and understandably to employees at all levels, as well as the executive team and the Board.
- Your strong negotiation skills are balanced with an above average business acumen, informing your legal recommendations.
- You have deep experience drafting and negotiating a wide range of top-priority commercial agreements.
- You have provided legal support for sales organizations at scale.You work autonomously and exercise sound judgment in a fast-paced environment.
- You have a proven ability to balance legal risk and business objectives.
Salary range is dependent on geographic location, prior experience, seniority, and demonstrated role related ability during the interview process.
What we offer
Full time permanent employees are eligible for the following benefits from their first day of employment:
* Competitive salary
* Meaningful equity
* Health insurance benefits: medical (various PPO/HMO/HSA plans), dental, vision, disability and life insurance
* One Medical membership (in participating locations)
* Flexible vacation time policy (subject to internal approval). Average use 4 weeks off per year.
* 10 paid sick days per year (pro rated depending on start date)
* Paid holidays
* Paid bereavement leave
* Paid family leave after birth/adoption. Minimum of 16 paid weeks for birthing parents, 10 weeks for caretaker parents. Meant to supplement benefits offered by State.
* Commuter and FSA plans
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Kiddom is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender, sexual orientation, transgender status, national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, pregnancy, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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