What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Legal Counsel position at Calm?
What We Do
The Legal team provides legal counsel, manages compliance, mitigates risks, and handles contracts, disputes, and regulatory matters to support the organization's operations and goals. Legal Operations sits within Calm's Legal Team, providing cross-functional support to stakeholders across the business and maintaining primary responsibility for functional programs, legal project management, and operational excellence. Our mission is to act as enablers and serve as strategic thinking collaborators with the business. We play an active role in shaping and implementing corporate strategy within the various business units. Collaborating seamlessly with teams in Go-To-Market, Engineering, Accounting, Content, and Product, we engage closely to assess critical issues, solve challenges, and achieve outcomes that optimize Calm's growth.
We are hiring remote workers for this role in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, or Minneapolis areas. At this time, only candidates in these locations will be considered.
We are seeking a highly qualified, detail-oriented, and proactive attorney to join our Legal team. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting our business’ legal needs globally, with a focus on transactional (drafting and negotiation) work. You will play a key role in providing legal perspective, strategic advice, and sound judgment on a wide range of legal and business matters.
The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, is a dedicated team player with excellent business partnering skills, and brings a positive, solution-oriented attitude with a strong desire to learn and grow.
What You’ll Do
- Help manage transactions for Sales and Business Development teams, including commercial deals and strategic partnerships, including review, negotiation and drafting agreements (e.g. sales, BD, vendor, and NDAs) and direct support of complex global deals requiring innovative, deep contracting skills;
- Strategize with company executives prior to client negotiations;
- Represent company's interests and interface directly with client counsel and negotiating teams;
- Structure client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective;
- Counsel, advise, and consult company executives based on accurate interpretation of contract documents and the legal and risk management issues in a business opportunity;
- Stay abreast of legal developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company's transactional practices;
- Develop internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge on various legal and business issues.
Who You Are
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Minimum Requirements
Calm uses a geographic pay model that determines salaries based on the location where an employee lives. For this position, the base pay ranges across Calm’s pay tiers is as follows :
160,000 - $260,000.
The base pay range represents the low and high end of Calm’s salary range for this position. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. Exact salary will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, experience and other qualifications.
This role is also eligible for equity comprehensive benefits 401k flexible time off.
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Salary : $160,000 - $260,000
