What are the responsibilities and job description for the Commercial Counsel Legal & Compliance San Francisco, CA position at Rippling?
Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.
Read the overview of this opportunity to understand what skills, including and relevant soft skills and software package proficiencies, are required.
Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.2B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.
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About the role
We are looking for a highly-motivated, business-minded attorney to join Rippling as Commercial Counsel on the Legal & Compliance Team. In this role, you will partner closely with our Sales, Business Development, and other GTM Teams, as well as Client Services, Product, Procurement, Finance, Accounting, and Security, and will report to our Assistant General Counsel, Commercial. You are a self-starter able to scale the commercial legal function on a global scale, take pride in helping colleagues navigate strategic initiatives, and get deals done. You are eager to provide creative, proactive, and pragmatic legal guidance and will have an exciting opportunity to drive significant commercial matters at Rippling. We love fresh perspectives and welcome your innovative thoughts on achieving that intersection of highest efficiency and protection in Rippling’s commercial transactions.
What you will do
- Serve as a key legal advisor on a variety of commercial transactions, including strategic partner relationships, customer contracts, and vendor agreements.
- Partner with our Sales, Business Development, Procurement, Client Services and other GTM Teams to build out, refine and manage Rippling’s commercial counseling function.
- Develop rich enablement tools (e.g., internal and external collateral, playbooks, training), contract templates, and supporting processes to establish best-in-class contracting practices at Rippling.
- Navigate complex regulatory frameworks globally to create scalable and innovative solutions for our products and services.
- Collaborate cross functionally with our internal teams (Privacy, Finance, Security, Product and Engineering) on development and documentation of new features and services.
- Drive the compliance culture at Rippling and embed integrity and compliance in all of our operations as our company grows.
- Advise and assist with Rippling’s general legal needs as they arise.
What you will need
Additional Information
Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics. Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com.
Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a 40 mile radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.
This role will receive a competitive salary benefits equity. The salary for US-based employees will be aligned with one of the ranges below based on location; see which tier applies to your location here.
A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s compensation–including a candidate’s professional background, experience, and location. Final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed below.
The pay range for this role is :
170,000 - 220,000 USD per year (US San Francisco Bay Area)
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Salary : $170,000 - $220,000
