We are a large, enterprise-scale SaaS, AI-enabled technology, cloud platform, cybersecurity, data privacy, digital transformation, corporate governance, and enterprise risk management organization serving enterprise customers across complex commercial, technology, data, security, and regulatory environments. The company operates in a fast-moving digital business environment where legal leadership directly influences corporate governance, commercial growth, customer trust, product innovation, data protection, regulatory readiness, enterprise risk, contract discipline, ethical decision-making, and long-term business value.
This is not a traditional legal leadership role focused only on contract review, compliance response, or outside counsel coordination. The Chief Legal Officer will serve as a strategic enterprise executive responsible for connecting legal strategy with business execution. This role will guide corporate governance, commercial legal operations, product and technology legal support, privacy and data protection, employment law partnership, litigation management, regulatory strategy, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions support, policy governance, and enterprise risk advisory.
The company is continuing to invest in AI-enabled products, cloud-based platforms, cybersecurity programs, data governance, global vendor relationships, enterprise customer agreements, privacy frameworks, commercial contracting discipline, legal operations, regulatory monitoring, intellectual property protection, corporate governance maturity, and risk management systems. As the organization grows, leadership is seeking a Chief Legal Officer who can bring executive presence, sound legal judgment, business practicality, technology fluency, governance experience, and strong cross-functional partnership to a highly visible role.
The Chief Legal Officer will lead the company’s legal strategy across corporate governance, commercial contracts, privacy, data protection, regulatory matters, product counseling, intellectual property, employment legal partnership, litigation, compliance support, board advisory, legal operations, and risk management. This executive will work closely with the CEO, Board, CFO, COO, CTO, CIO, CISO, CHRO, Revenue, Product, Engineering, Finance, HR, Compliance, Procurement, Data Analytics, Customer Success, and Executive Leadership to ensure legal priorities support responsible growth and enterprise trust.
This role requires a legal leader who understands how to protect the business while enabling growth. The ideal candidate will know how to advise executives, support enterprise deals, manage legal risk, guide technology and AI-related issues, improve contracting processes, strengthen governance, advise on data privacy, support regulatory readiness, oversee outside counsel, and communicate complex legal matters clearly to business leaders and the Board.
The selected candidate will help define how the company builds a modern, scalable, and business-aligned legal function. This includes improving legal operations, strengthening contract governance, supporting responsible product innovation, advising on privacy and cybersecurity risk, managing regulatory exposure, improving board reporting, and ensuring legal strategy becomes a practical enabler of growth rather than a reactive control function.
This is a high-impact executive opportunity for a senior legal leader who wants to advise the CEO and Board, shape governance, support enterprise technology growth, strengthen risk management, and help a large remote-first organization scale with confidence, integrity, and legal discipline.
• Lead the company’s enterprise legal strategy across corporate governance, commercial legal, privacy, data protection, regulatory matters, product counseling, intellectual property, employment law partnership, litigation, compliance support, and legal operations.
• Serve as the primary legal advisor to the CEO, Board, executive leadership team, and key business stakeholders on corporate matters, risk exposure, strategic decisions, governance issues, and legal priorities.
• Oversee Board and corporate governance matters, including meeting preparation, committee support, governance materials, policy oversight, corporate records, entity management, and executive advisory.
• Lead commercial legal strategy for enterprise customer agreements, vendor contracts, strategic partnerships, licensing arrangements, procurement agreements, data processing terms, and complex negotiations.
• Partner with Sales, Revenue Operations, Finance, Product, Customer Success, Procurement, and Security to improve contract workflows, approval processes, risk review, negotiation standards, and deal velocity.
• Advise Product, Engineering, Technology, Data, Security, and Compliance teams on AI-enabled products, platform features, data use, privacy considerations, intellectual property issues, regulatory obligations, and customer commitments.
• Oversee privacy and data protection strategy in partnership with Security, Compliance, IT, Product, Legal Operations, and external advisors.
• Manage litigation, disputes, claims, investigations, subpoenas, employment matters, customer disputes, vendor issues, and other legal escalations.
• Lead employment legal partnership with HR and People teams on workplace policies, employee relations matters, investigations, compensation issues, remote workforce requirements, and employment risk.
• Develop and maintain legal policies, contract standards, approval matrices, data protection terms, legal playbooks, governance procedures, and risk escalation frameworks.
• Oversee intellectual property strategy, including trademarks, patents where applicable, copyrights, trade secrets, product protection, open-source software considerations, and IP-related agreements.
• Manage outside counsel relationships, legal budgets, matter planning, billing discipline, legal vendor performance, and external advisory support.
• Monitor legal, regulatory, privacy, cybersecurity, AI, employment, and commercial developments that may affect company strategy, products, customers, contracts, or operations.
• Build, mentor, and lead legal team members while creating a culture of integrity, practical judgment, responsiveness, business partnership, confidentiality, and operational excellence.
• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school required.
• Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction required.
• 15+ years of progressive legal experience across corporate law, commercial contracts, technology transactions, privacy, governance, regulatory matters, litigation, employment law partnership, or enterprise risk management.
• 8+ years of senior leadership experience managing legal teams, corporate legal functions, commercial legal teams, compliance partnerships, privacy programs, or legal operations functions.
• Experience within enterprise SaaS, AI-enabled technology, cloud platforms, cybersecurity, fintech, healthcare technology, data platforms, digital products, or B2B enterprise technology environments strongly preferred.
• Experience advising CEOs, Boards, executive committees, Audit Committees, investors, senior business leaders, and cross-functional operating teams.
• Strong background in enterprise commercial agreements, SaaS contracts, technology licensing, data processing agreements, vendor agreements, strategic partnerships, and complex negotiation.
• Strong understanding of data privacy, cybersecurity legal considerations, AI governance, intellectual property, product counseling, corporate governance, employment law partnership, litigation management, and regulatory risk.
• Public company experience, private equity-backed company experience, high-growth technology experience, or late-stage enterprise company experience preferred.
• Experience building legal operations, contract playbooks, approval workflows, legal dashboards, outside counsel management, and scalable legal service models.
• Familiarity with legal operations and contract tools such as Ironclad, DocuSign, LinkSquares, Conga, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Jira, Onit, SimpleLegal, Legal Tracker, OneTrust, TrustArc, or similar systems preferred.
• Strong business and financial acumen with experience supporting revenue growth, risk tradeoffs, customer negotiations, vendor management, acquisition support, corporate transactions, and strategic initiatives.
• Excellent executive communication, negotiation, legal drafting, stakeholder management, crisis judgment, board advisory, and leadership skills.
• Strategic legal executive with the ability to connect legal judgment, business growth, corporate governance, risk management, product innovation, and enterprise trust.
• Strong executive presence with the confidence to advise the CEO, Board, and senior leadership team on sensitive legal matters, governance issues, risk exposure, and strategic decisions.
• Business-minded and practical, with the ability to protect the company while enabling responsible growth, customer delivery, product innovation, and commercial execution.
• Technology-fluent and comfortable advising on SaaS platforms, AI-enabled products, data privacy, cybersecurity, cloud services, digital workflows, and enterprise technology contracts.
• Strong communicator who can translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance for executives, operators, product leaders, revenue teams, and technical stakeholders.
• Calm and decisive under pressure, especially during disputes, investigations, regulatory matters, customer escalations, incident response, employment issues, or board-level decisions.
• Collaborative and able to align Legal, Finance, Product, Security, Revenue, HR, Operations, Procurement, Compliance, Data Analytics, Customer Success, and Executive Leadership around practical risk decisions.
• Operationally disciplined with the ability to build legal processes, contract governance, playbooks, dashboards, escalation routines, and outside counsel controls.
• High integrity and discretion when handling legal matters, board materials, employee issues, customer disputes, strategic transactions, intellectual property, investigations, and confidential business plans.
• Strong people leader who can develop legal talent, build trust across the organization, and create a legal function known for responsiveness, judgment, and business partnership.
The Chief Legal Officer will provide strategic leadership by ensuring the company’s legal function supports responsible growth, corporate governance, commercial execution, product innovation, privacy readiness, and enterprise risk discipline.
This role will help leadership make better decisions about contracts, customer commitments, regulatory exposure, governance, employment matters, data protection, AI-related risk, intellectual property, litigation, corporate transactions, and business partnerships. The CLO will ensure legal is not managed as a reactive approval function, but as a strategic enterprise capability that protects trust and supports growth.
Key areas of strategic support may include:
• Enterprise legal strategy and legal operating model development.
• CEO, Board, and executive legal advisory support.
• Corporate governance and board matter oversight.
• Commercial contracts, SaaS agreements, and enterprise negotiations.
• Privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, and AI legal partnership.
• Product counseling and technology legal support.
• Intellectual property strategy and protection.
• Litigation, disputes, investigations, and claims management.
• Employment legal support and HR partnership.
• Regulatory monitoring and compliance partnership.
• Legal operations, contract workflows, and process modernization.
• Outside counsel management and legal budget discipline.
• M&A, partnerships, financing, and strategic transaction support.
• Enterprise risk management and executive issue escalation.
The Chief Legal Officer will help ensure the organization grows with strong governance, practical legal judgment, customer trust, and disciplined risk management.
• Location: USA Remote.
• Primarily remote executive leadership environment with regular legal reviews, executive advisory sessions, board preparation, contract escalation meetings, privacy discussions, governance updates, risk reviews, and cross-functional strategy sessions.
• Flexibility required during major negotiations, board meetings, legal disputes, customer escalations, regulatory matters, employment issues, privacy or security incidents, strategic transactions, or urgent executive decisions.
• Occasional travel may be required for Board meetings, leadership offsites, customer negotiations, legal proceedings, industry events, investor discussions, company gatherings, or strategic planning sessions.
• Regular collaboration with the CEO, Board, CFO, COO, CTO, CIO, CISO, CHRO, Revenue, Product, Engineering, Finance, HR, Compliance, Security, Procurement, Data Analytics, Customer Success, outside counsel, and Executive Leadership.
• Fast-paced enterprise technology environment with high visibility around commercial execution, governance, privacy, cybersecurity, contracts, product innovation, and enterprise risk.
• Role requires handling confidential legal matters, board materials, customer contracts, employee matters, investigations, intellectual property, regulatory issues, financial data, and strategic business plans with discretion.
• Executive Legal Leadership
• Corporate Governance
• Commercial Legal Strategy
• Technology Transactions
• SaaS Contracts
• Privacy and Data Protection
• Product Legal Counseling
• Cybersecurity Legal Partnership
• Intellectual Property
• Litigation Management
• Employment Legal Partnership
• Regulatory Risk Management
• Legal Operations
• Board Advisory
• Enterprise Risk Management
Compensation Package: $390K – $480K
The total compensation package may include base salary, executive performance bonus, legal performance incentives, governance and risk management incentives, long-term incentives, equity participation where applicable, and additional executive-level benefits depending on experience, qualifications, and final role alignment.
Benefits may include:
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Executive performance bonus eligibility.
• Legal strategy, governance, and risk management incentive opportunities.
• Long-term incentive opportunities.
• Equity or ownership-aligned compensation where applicable.
• Retirement savings plan with company contribution.
• Paid time off and company holidays.
• USA remote work flexibility.
• CEO, Board, and executive leadership visibility.
• Executive coaching, legal leadership development, and professional growth support.
• Support for continuing legal education, privacy certifications, AI governance education, cybersecurity legal training, corporate governance, and executive leadership programs.
• Wellness, employee assistance, and work-life support programs.
• Access to modern contract lifecycle management, legal operations, privacy, governance, collaboration, e-signature, and risk management platforms.
This is an opportunity to join a large technology-driven organization where legal leadership directly influences corporate governance, customer trust, commercial growth, product innovation, privacy readiness, and enterprise risk discipline.
The Chief Legal Officer will have the authority and visibility to advise the CEO and Board, strengthen governance, modernize legal operations, support enterprise deals, guide product and privacy strategy, and build a scalable legal function for a remote-first enterprise.
You will work in an environment that values integrity, practical judgment, business partnership, data-driven decisions, responsible innovation, and disciplined growth. The company is investing in AI-enabled technology, cloud platforms, data governance, privacy readiness, commercial legal operations, cybersecurity partnership, and scalable enterprise risk practices.
For a senior legal executive who enjoys advising leadership, managing complex risk, supporting business growth, and turning legal strategy into measurable enterprise value, this role offers the scope, influence, and leadership platform to make a major impact.
At Admiral Talent, our vision is to redefine staffing through genuine partnerships, innovation, and a people-first mindset. Guided by experienced leadership, we’re committed to driving growth, empowering talent, and delivering exceptional results for every client we serve.