VP of Legal

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food & beverage • sustainability • SaaS • inventory optimization • supply chain planning

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Description

• Own the overall legal function with a primary focus on drafting and negotiating commercial contracts and agreements, while also owning and managing all other corporate legal activities including employment, regulatory, compliance, board and shareholder matters. • Enable commercial success by creating the legal strategies to support our various go-to-market efforts, partnering with the sales teams to reduce legal hurdles and close business. • Collaborate with company leadership and business leads to understand business goals, translate legal risks to easy to understand concepts, and establish full alignment around legal processes and procedures that support growth. • Possess a strong working knowledge of SaaS license agreements in order to effectively draft agreements that cover our business objectives while also balancing risks. • Continually improve Crisp’s legal operations to support new customers, products, services, pricing, markets, and business risks as the company scales. • Partner with and manage our external legal counsel to solve technical legal issues, while owning the entire legal budget and streamlining all legal costs. • Lead the creation, documentation and implementation of legal policies for the company. • Own the legal technology stack and continually look to improve it as needed to meet the changing needs of our growing business. • Drive the M&A legal process from term sheet to close in partnership with Corporate Development. • Prepare Crisp for our next stage of growth by getting us ahead of regulatory and compliance matters and proactively identifying and advising on risks as we expand our business geographically and into new products. • Deliver ad hoc reporting and projects that support the company’s growth and objectives.

Requirements

• JD degree and membership to at least one US state bar. • Experience drafting and executing license agreements for a SaaS startup. • Experience with buy side M&A. • Systems experience using Salesforce, Carta, PandaDoc, DocuSign (or another contract management platform) and G Suite. • Strong project management skills including an ability to multitask, prioritize and respond quickly within a rapidly changing environment. • Ability to translate business objectives and goals into legal concepts that allow them to be seamlessly incorporated into commercial agreements. • Potential to manage and build a team as Crisp grows.