Job description
Liftoff is the leading growth acceleration platform for the mobile industry, helping advertisers, publishers, game developers and DSPs scale revenue growth with solutions to market and monetize mobile apps.
Liftoff’s solutions, including Accelerate, Direct, Influence, Monetize, Intelligence, and Vungle Exchange, support over 6,600 mobile businesses across 74 countries in sectors such as gaming, social, finance, ecommerce, and entertainment. Founded in 2012 and headquartered in Redwood City, CA, Liftoff has a diverse, global presence.
We are a fast-growing, financially strong, pre-IPO Ad Technology company expanding our legal team. We’re looking for an experienced and driven Deputy General Counsel to work closely with the General Counsel, playing a critical role in shaping legal strategy, ensuring compliance, and supporting our evolving global business. This is a high-impact opportunity for a strategic legal generalist who aspires to step into a future GC role.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with business partners to understand their goals and ensure contracts and legal solutions are aligned with company strategy.
- Assist with maintaining the company’s global privacy program and updating processes to reflect changes in regulation and business practices.
- Support the company’s compliance with global privacy laws and data protection regulations, including GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, and others.
- Provide subject-matter expertise in privacy and data security to teams including People Operations, Marketing, Finance, Sales, and Engineering.
- Stay current on relevant laws, regulations, and technological developments related to privacy, data security, and consumer protection.
- Educate and support internal teams on contract templates, legal processes, and compliance best practices.
- Draft, review, and negotiate contracts across all functional areas, including commercial agreements, marketing agreements, employment-related agreements, confidentiality agreements, and other business-related contracts.
- Assist in advising executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders on legal risks and strategies associated with operating a growth-stage company.
- Oversee subsidiary management, including formation, governance and inter-company agreements.
- Assist in the design and operationalization of internal compliance programs, including insider trading, code of conduct, whistleblower, and SOX controls as needed.
Requirements
- J.D. from an accredited U.S. law school and active, current license to practice law in the state of California.
- Minimum 8 years of legal experience, with at least 5 years in an in-house counsel role at a corporate organization—ideally in tech, SaaS, or digital advertising sectors. Preference for IAPP/other privacy certification.
- Proven expertise in drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide variety of commercial agreements, including SaaS, vendor, marketing, employment-related, and NDAs.
- Hands-on experience with global privacy and data protection regulations, including building or managing compliance programs.
- Experience supporting or managing regulatory inquiries involving privacy or information security.
- Familiarity with corporate compliance frameworks, including policy development, codes of conduct, and employee training.
- Ability to explain complex legal issues clearly, providing practical, business-focused legal guidance.
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills, with a proven ability to build trusted relationships across departments like Legal, Engineering, Marketing, Sales, and People Ops.
- Highly organized, proactive, and adaptable, with sound judgment and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a high-growth, fast-paced environment.
Location:
This role is eligible for full-time remote work in one of our entities: CA, CO, ID, NV, NY, UT, and WA: Preference is California
We are a remote-first company with US hubs in Redwood City, Los Angeles, Orange County and New York
Travel Expectations:
We offer several opportunities for in-person team gatherings, including but not limited to project meetings, regional meetups, and company-wide events. We expect our employees to attend these gatherings at least once per quarter. These gatherings provide essential opportunities for collaboration, communication, and team building.
Compensation:
Liftoff offers all employees a full compensation package that includes equity and health/vision/dental benefits associated with your country of residence. Base compensation will vary based on the candidate’s location and experience.
The following are our base salary ranges for this role:
- SF Bay Area, NYC, Los Angeles/Orange County: $250,000 - $275,000 plus bonus
- Seattle/Olympia, San Diego, Santa Barbara: $230,000 - $253,000 plus bonus
- All other cities and towns in our approved states: $212,000 - $233,000 plus bonus
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Liftoff is committed to providing and maintaining a work environment where all employees and candidates are treated with dignity and respect and that is free of bias, prejudice, and harassment. Liftoff is further committed to providing an equal employment opportunity for all employees and candidates for employment free from discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, gender (including sexual harassment, gender harassment, and harassment due to pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, gender nonconformity, race, creed, religion, color, national origin, ancestry (including association, affiliation, or participation with persons or activities related to national origin, English-proficiency or accent, or immigration status), physical or mental disability, medical condition(s), genetic information of an individual or family member of the individual, marital or domestic partner status, age, veteran or military status, family care status, requesting or taking pregnancy, parental or disability leave, requesting an accommodation, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, regulation, or ordinance. All such discrimination and harassment is unlawful and will not be tolerated. Liftoff maintains a continued commitment to equal employment opportunity and expects the full cooperation of all personnel.
Liftoff’s Compensation Strategy
Liftoff’s compensation strategy includes competitive market rate along with equity and benefits and perks that will give our employees what they need to do their best work. In order to ensure teams are compensated fairly for the work performed, we map out specific levels and take into consideration the cost of labor within each location. Liftoff provides employees a total compensation package of competitive market salaries, equity, health and wellness stipends, medical benefits associated with your country of residence. The base compensation will vary based on location, experience as well as level.
Agency and Third Party Recruiter Notice:
Liftoff does not accept unsolicited resumes from individual recruiters or third-party recruiting agencies in response to job postings. No fee will be paid to third parties who submit unsolicited candidates directly to our hiring managers or Recruiting Team. All candidates must be submitted via our Applicant Tracking System by approved Liftoff vendors who have been expressly requested to make a submission by our Recruiting Team for a specific job opening. No placement fees will be paid to any firm unless such a request has been made by the Liftoff Recruiting Team and such a candidate was submitted to the Liftoff Recruiting Team via our Applicant Tracking System.
