Director and Managing Counsel; Remote

ez Cater 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, ez Cater 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. ez Cater also enables companies to manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform.

For restaurant partners, ez Cater 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, Soft Bank, and Quadrille.

As Director and Managing Counsel, you will lead and oversee commercial legal support to ez Cater’s sales, operations, marketing and product teams. You will set the vision and develop and implement strategies to provide best-in-class commercial legal support for these teams, ensuring your team is a key contributor to the business’ success. You will serve as both a player and a coach, being lead counsel on some of our most complex and important initiatives and contract negotiations while developing, overseeing, and advising a talented team of commercial lawyers.

You will report to the Chief Legal and People Officer and be a member of the legal leadership team and ez Cater’s high-impact extended leadership team.

What You'll Do:

• Proactively partner with sales leaders to develop and implement a market competitive contract strategy that drives enterprise prospect and customer engagement while appropriately mitigating legal and business risk, and successfully lead certain complex contract negotiations.
• Upgrade and mature vendor and legal operations to enhance efficiency and consistency of contracting processes and execution; this includes close partnership with the security team.
• Collaborate with operations and sales teams to ensure third-party partner agreements and operating requirements meet ez Cater's needs to deliver on its mission to land the Perfect Order for its customers.
• Identify and integrate next generation tools and processes, including AI, to drive efficiency and optimization of the legal support function.
• Develop and implement scalable approaches and processes to provide efficient and effective commercial legal support and guidance to the sales, operations, marketing and product teams.
• Be a trusted business partner to the extended leadership team and other key stakeholders in providing practical legal analysis, strategy and advice relating to key business initiatives and complex legal matters.
• Partner with legal leadership and other stakeholders to develop and implement initiatives that foster a culture of compliance, integrity and risk awareness across the company.
• Build a best-in-class legal team by providing strong mentorship and management, setting high expectations with your own individual contributions, and prioritizing ongoing professional development, learning and benchmarking for you and your team.

What You Have
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• A Juris Doctor Degree from an ABA-accredited law school and are a good standing member of the bar in at least one state or the District of Columbia.
• 10+ years of legal experience, including 5+ years as an in-house attorney managing lawyers and supporting multiple departments with practical legal and business advice.
• Experience at a marketplace company with B2B and B2C operations a plus.
• A strategic mindset and proven ability to champion change and build operationally excellent processes and practices for providing legal services and advice.
• Strong leadership and team management skills with a track record of developing, inspiring and guiding others effectively.
• Direct experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts and advising on a broad range of legal issues, including information security, privacy, AI, and intellectual property rights.
• A practical, proactive, and business-focused approach to problem-solving, paired with sound decision-making and excellent judgment.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and cultivate meaningful and collaborative relationships with internal…