About Button
Button is building the future of the commerce-powered internet — enabling performance marketing and monetization at scale across marketplaces, brands, and creators. Backed by Norwest and Redpoint.
About the role
This role is solely responsible for the legal function at Button — with an emphasis on commercial contracting, privacy and data protection, corporate governance, and the day-to-day legal advice that every team in the company depends on to move quickly.
What they're looking for
- You have been the first or sole in-house counsel at a company under 200 people
- You have worked in adtech, martech, affiliate or performance marketing, payments, or marketplaces
- You have advised on creator, talent, or influencer agreements, including content rights and handle access
- You have handled employment matters beyond the basics
- You trained at a firm with a substantive technology or commercial transactions practice
More about this role
This role is solely responsible for the legal function at Button — with an emphasis on commercial contracting, privacy and data protection, corporate governance, and the day-to-day legal advice that every team in the company depends on to move quickly.
- You will draft, negotiate, and close commercial agreements — MSAs, DPAs, vendor and procurement paper.
- You will develop and revise standard terms, create playbooks, and set our legal strategy..
- You will work directly with the commercial and finance teams during negotiations, keeping pace with the speed of the business.
- You will own Button's privacy posture across domestic and international law, including data processing agreements.
- You will help run vendor and partner diligence on data handling, and translate legal and platform requirements into something the product and commercial teams can operationalize.
- You will partner with People Operations on employment matters
- You will support diligence on financing or corporate transactions as they arise.
- You will partner with Button’s product, engineering, and marketing teams to secure patents and trademarks to support the business.
- You will build the templates, fallback...
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