Assistant General Counsel – Stack Overflow

32% 1-Year Employee Growth Rate | 42% 2-Year Employee Growth Rate | LinkedIn | $68M Venture Funding

What Is Employee Growth Rate & Why Is It Important?

Overview
Stack Overflow is the largest, most trusted online community for developers to learn, share their knowledge, and build their careers. We partner with businesses to help them understand, hire, engage, and enable the world’s developers. Our products and services are focused on developer marketing, technical recruiting, and enterprise knowledge sharing. Our clientele includes Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, and many other Fortune 500 names.

What You’ll Do:
Own legal support for go-to-market and commercial contracting
Lead cross functional initiatives and collaborate with and support a wide variety of departments including go-to-market leadership and finance
Ensure the team’s delivery of practical approaches to problem solving
Develop, implement and continually improve processes and procedures to increase efficiency of the legal team to support the company’s hyper growth.
Motivate and empower a highly functional team with a strong sense of customer service to the business.
Drive the completion of multiple tasks and responsibilities in a fast-paced and high energy environment, including the implementation of a contracts management system.
What You’ll Need to Have:
10+ years’ experience as a qualified attorney, including a substantial period as a leader within a legal department of a leading software or technology company
Significant experience managing and growing a team
Excellent contract negotiation and drafting skills across a wide array of contracting vehicles
Comfortable and adept at teaming with GTM leadership in fast-paced, customer-facing transactions
Attention to detail and a willingness to get into the details and drive creative solutions
Ability to think on the fly and drive efficient deal process and fast decision making
Superior business judgment and the ability to address complex opportunities and issues in creative and effective ways
Ability to understand our product and platform in an in depth manner to effectively support the GTM team
Operational mind that can influence & build strong scalable processes as we grow
Specific experience in a SaaS or enterprise software environment
Significant experience counseling global organizations on commercial and compliance issues
Excellent oral, written and interpersonal skills and the ability to create and sustain lasting relationships with customers and management
What You’ll Get In Return:
Competitive Base Salary ($200K – 300K + Bonus & RSUs)
20 days paid vacation
Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and paid sick days
Long-term incentive (equity grant)
Completely free health insurance (no copay, no premiums)
401K match
Health & Wellness stipend
Employees will never be poked with a sharp stick
If your role is not located in one of our offices…. We’ll reimburse you up to $2,000 to set up a great home office.

If you want to work in our office… You’ll be in our headquarters in New York City, and enjoy additional benefits like free lunches, transportation reimbursement, and all the espresso you can drink.

Work Environment:

We’re a remote-friendly team. Whether you work remotely or work out of our offices you’ll be part of a remote work culture that emphasizes online communication (Slack, GitHub, Hangouts, Zoom, Stack Overflow for Teams).

We value diversity at our company. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics in the location in which the candidate is applying.

For job positions in San Francisco, CA, and other locations where required, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records

Diverse teams build better products.

Legally, we need you to know this:

Stack Exchange, Inc. does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. We support workplace diversity.

But we want to add this:

We strongly believe that diversity of experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company and better products. We are working hard to increase the diversity of our team wherever we can and we actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of it.

#LI-Remote #BI-Remote

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