Head of Legal

Overview: 

Spotter is a platform for Creators, providing services and software designed to accelerate growth for the world’s best Creators and brands. Creators working with Spotter can access the capital, knowledge, community, and personalized AI software products they need to succeed. With unique knowledge of how Creators work, the resources they need to grow, and the challenges they face, Spotter is empowering top YouTube Creators to succeed.

Spotter has already deployed over $950 million to Creators to reinvest in themselves and accelerate their growth, with plans to reach $1 billion in investment in 2025. With a premium catalog that spans over 725,000 videos, Spotter generates more than 88 billion monthly watch-time minutes, delivering a unique scaled media solution to Advertisers and Ad Agencies that is transparent, efficient, and 100% brand safe. For more information about Spotter, please visit https://spotter.com.

What You’ll Do:

As the Head of Legal at Spotter, you’ll be stepping into an exciting role that combines legal acumen and entrepreneurial spirit.  This is an opportunity to do something truly groundbreaking.  You’ll be instrumental in shaping our legal strategy, ensuring that we make informed, risk-based decisions and pioneer new approaches that set us apart from the competition.   

You will be an integral part of our Extended Leadership Team, providing strategic legal guidance and oversight to support our growth and success. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the legal landscape of a dynamic and innovative company at the forefront of the Creator Economy. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in corporate law, experience with labor and employment matters, and a proven track record of success in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

• With the assistance of outside counsel, manage a comprehensive variety of corporate governance and financing matters, including but not limited to drafting board consents, advising as to investor, shareholder, and creditor rights and obligations, managing capitalization through Carta, administration of Spotter’s employee stock-option plan, and ensuring compliance with various securities regulations.   
• Provide legal counsel on labor and employment matters, including compliance, disputes, investigations, policies, template agreements related to employment, and risk mitigation.
• Set and manage the budget of the Legal function, ensuring that external law firms and vendors are providing services in a tailored, cost-effective manner.  This includes the supervision, evaluation and selection of outside counsel. 
• Work cross functionally with business teams across the company to analyze legal risks, devise creative solutions and develop strong, trusted advisor relationships.
• Proactively identify emerging legal and regulatory risks for the business team.
• Support the creation and expansion of contract templates and terms of use to reflect new and existing products and services.
• Remain up-to-date on relevant product and AI space to ensure an ongoing ability to provide sound marketing compliance advice.
• Contract review and negotiation; drafting and editing various business agreements including contracts related to creators, vendors, suppliers, distributors, ad sales partners, events, photo/video/talent, marketing service providers, and other contracts related to other company initiatives and events.
• Lead the curation of Spotter’s commercial insurance portfolio.  
• Develop trusted relationships with all internal teams and create and/or improve internal processes to help both the legal function as well as the business generally streamline, simplify and efficiently execute high level agreements.

Who You Are:

• JD from an ABA-accredited law school
• 8+ years of experience at a law firm in-house, with at least 3 years dedicated to corporate matters
• Active bar membership with ability to register as in-house counsel in California

Preferred Qualifications:

• In-house counsel experience
• Experience representing venture-backed companies
• Experience with labor and employment matters
• Experience managing outside counsel, including budget 

Why Spotter:

• Medical and vision insurance covered up to 100%
• Dental insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Stock options
• Discretionary PTO
• Complimentary gym access
• Autonomy and upward mobility
• Diverse, equitable, and inclusive culture, where your voice matters

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles that will be performed in Culver City. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. A reasonable estimate of the current pay range is: $250K-$300K salary per year. The range listed is just one component of Spotter’s total compensation package for employees.

Spotter is an equal opportunity employer. Spotter does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, religion, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic characteristics or information, marital status, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, military status, veteran status, use of or request for family or medical leave, political affiliation, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state or local laws. 

Equal access to programs, services and employment is available to all persons. Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodations as part of the application and/or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.