Corporate Counsel, Commercial

Job description

ezCater is the leading food for work technology company in the US, connecting anyone who needs food for their workplace to over 100,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from recurring employee meals to one-off meetings, all backed by ²⁴⁄₇ customer service with real humans. ezCater also enables companies to manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps them grow their business by bringing them more orders and new high-value customers.  We’re backed by top investors including Insight, Iconiq, Lightspeed, GIC, SoftBank, and Quadrille.

ezCater seeks an experienced, highly motivated, proactive, creative, and strategic legal professional to join its in-house legal team as the primary legal support for our high-growth workplace (enterprise) customer and restaurant partner sales organizations. This person will be a key partner to these teams, helping them achieve their objectives by providing a wide range of high-quality, timely legal support, including contract drafting, review and negotiation, strategic advice and solutioning, contract form, playbook and training development, RFP support, and marketing copy review. Our new Corporate Counsel (Commercial) will report directlyto the VP Assistant General Counsel (Commercial).

What You’ll Do:

• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of B2B sales agreements with organizations ranging from SMBs to Fortune 100 companies on ezCater templates and third-party paper to drive revenue while balancing legal and business risk
• Building and improving contract forms, playbooks, talk tracks, and legal processes to help our sales organizations scale
• Partnering closely with our sales, finance, operations, security, people operations, and other business teams to develop creative solutions to unique customer and restaurant partner requests and requirements
• Designing, providing, and refreshing trainings for our sales teams on contract best practices and frequently negotiated issues while coordinating deeply with the sales operations team on implementing recommendations for streamlining processes
• Representing the ezCater legal team as part of a cross-functional working group that contributes timely and creative responses to customer RFPs
• Advising on B2B product marketing materials and coordinating with other legal team members to ensure consistency in messaging around products, services, and related claims
• Triaging and working closely with other members of the legal team to identify and resolve customer- and restaurant partner-related privacy, tax, and regulatory issues
• Handling research and other projects supporting our sales teams on certain product and regulatory matters
• Reviewing and negotiating vendors agreements in support of our sales organizations and (as needed) other teams across the business, as well as providing legal support for other projects at the discretion of the leads of the ezCater legal commercial and compliance groups

What You Have:

• A minimum of 6 years legal experience, preferably at both a law firm and in-house, and membership to at least one state bar
• Excellent drafting and negotiating skills across a range of commercial agreements, including MSAs, SaaS agreements, strategic partnership agreements, and data processing agreements, on both familiar and third-party templates
• Sound judgment and ability to balance risk with business objectives
• Outstanding oral and written communication skills, with the ability to distill and communicate complex issues clearly and effectively across all levels of the organization
• A passion for tackling challenges and working collaboratively with stakeholders across the business to design and drive creative solutions that achieve business outcomes while mitigating legal and business risks
• A strong work ethic, high standards, impeccable integrity, and well-honed analytical skills

Bonus points:

• 3+ years’ experience supporting B2B sales organizations in contract negotiations
• Experience in the tech industry, particularly online marketplaces
• Working within parameters of AI-assisted contract review and redlines

The national cash compensation range for this role is $169,000 - $235,000 per year*

*Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).

Please have fun with the Cover Letter portion of the application! It does not need to follow “traditional” cover letter guidelines - we would love for you to write 150-500 words explaining why you are interested in ezCater and the role, and highlighting anything else you think we should know!

ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.

What You’ll Get from Us:

You’ll get a terrifically compelling experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You’ll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a  place that values work/life harmony.

Oh, and you’ll get all this: Market competitive salary, stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot, 12 paid holidays, flexible PTO, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, mental health and family planning resources, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office, a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, Relish (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office, and knowing that you helped transform the food for work space.

ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones. Following a conditional offer of employment, ezCater may require a background check.

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