Dispatch Head of Legal at Dispatch responsible for managing the day-to-day legal function and building legal infrastructure. Focuses on enterprise commercial agreements, privacy, data matters, and legal processes supporting company growth.
Responsibilities
Dispatch is looking for a Head of Legal to own the day-to-day legal function at Dispatch.
This is a highly hands-on role for an experienced commercial attorney who is comfortable operating as an individual contributor, making practical risk decisions, and building the legal infrastructure of an early-stage company. You will work closely with our Sales, Customer Success, Product, Security, Finance, People, and executive teams, with particular responsibility for enterprise commercial agreements, privacy and data matters, and the legal processes that support our growth.
The ideal candidate combines strong law firm training with meaningful in-house experience at an early-stage (Series C or earlier) B2B SaaS company. You should be equally comfortable negotiating a complex enterprise agreement, advising the business on a new data-sharing arrangement, and creating the templates and playbooks that allow the company to move faster without introducing unnecessary risk.
This role reports to the COO and is an individual contributor position initially with the expectation of growing and scaling the team over time.
Fundraising, investor matters and other specialized corporate matters will continue to be handled by outside counsel.
How You'll Operate
This role is designed for someone who likes being close to the business.
Success in this role means helping Dispatch move quickly while making thoughtful, commercially grounded decisions about risk. The goal is not to eliminate risk; it is to make sure the company understands it, takes it deliberately, and builds the processes needed to scale.
Commercial Contracts
Own the commercial contracting function, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating MSAs, order forms, amendments, statements of work, and multi-year enterprise agreements.
Lead negotiations with sophisticated enterprise customers and their legal, procurement, privacy, and security teams.
Develop pragmatic positions on indemnification, limitations of liability, warranties, insurance, intellectual property, termination rights, service levels, and other material commercial terms.
Qualification
JD from a top law school5–15 years of legal experienceAt least 3 years of in-house experienceDirect experience negotiating MSAsbreach notificationdata retention and deletionGeneral employment law experienceExperience building contract templatesExperience supporting SOC 2Experience evaluating
Required
JD from a top law school.
Active membership in good standing with the bar of at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
5–15 years of legal experience.
At least 3 years of in-house experience, including direct ownership of commercial contracting.
Law firm training in technology transactions, commercial contracts, privacy, or a closely related practice area.
Direct experience negotiating MSAs, order forms, and multi-year enterprise agreements for a B2B SaaS company.
Direct experience negotiating DPAs and security addenda, including provisions relating to:
breach notification;
data retention and deletion; and
AI usage and model-training restrictions.
Experience reviewing and structuring third-party data-sharing arrangements.
General employment law experience, including offer letters, contractor and consulting agreements, and employee separations.
Preferred
Experience serving as a company's first legal hire.
Experience transitioning significant legal responsibilities from outside counsel to an internal legal function.
Experience building contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval frameworks, and fallback positions from the ground up.
Working knowledge of the financial services ecosystem, including wealth managers, asset managers, custodians, and the relationships among them.
Experience supporting SOC 2, ISO 27001, enterprise security reviews, or related compliance programs.
Experience evaluating, selecting, or implementing contract lifecycle management software.
Dispatch provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
