In-House Commercial Counsel

About Statusphere

Statusphere is an influencer-marketing technology platform built for enterprise brands to make human-generated content scalable, measurable and brand-safe across social, retail and paid media channels. The platform uses AI to automate and orchestrate large-scale creator programs, from sourcing and vetting influencers, to fulfillment, compliance, tracking and rights management. Brands including Express, Parlux, Kendo Brands, and LG H&H use Statusphere to drive social SEO, improve product discoverability and generate measurable sales impact online and in-store. For more information, visit www.joinstatus.com.

About the Role

Statusphere is seeking its first In-House Counsel to serve as the company’s day-to-day legal resource and lead the commercial contracting function. This attorney will focus primarily on client-side negotiations, independently moving agreements from initial review through signature after business terms are established. The role is designed for a practical, commercially minded transactional attorney who works with urgency, learns the business deeply, and understands the revenue, customer, product, and operational drivers behind each decision. This person must be able to distinguish between acceptable commercial risk and material legal exposure, keep deals moving, and give the COO/CFO and other C-level leaders clear recommendations (not simply identify issues or restate contract language).

You will manage a meaningful monthly volume of inbound and outbound agreements, including enterprise SaaS and digital-credit contracts, agency and customized client agreements, vendor SaaS contracts, consulting agreements, MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, and related documents. You will also own routine corporate legal matters such as website Terms & Conditions, the Privacy Policy, payment-related legal questions, and operational legal guidance. You will report to the COO/CFO and work closely with Sales, Finance, Operations, Product, Security, and Customer Success. Specialized, novel, or high-risk matters may be escalated to outside counsel as appropriate.

What You’ll Do

• Own commercial contracting. Draft, review, redline, negotiate, and close client, agency, and customized agreements, including MSAs, SOWs, order forms that focus on Saas and digital-credit and usage-based arrangements, NDAs, and amendments.

• Lead client-side legal negotiations with speed. Take ownership of legal terms once commercial terms are set; respond and turn drafts quickly, negotiate directly with client legal, procurement, privacy, and security teams, and maintain momentum through execution. Provide business stakeholders with concise status updates, clearly framed risks, and the specific decisions needed to close.

• Manage vendor and consulting agreements. Review and negotiate inbound SaaS, technology, data, professional-services, contractor, and consulting agreements, balancing operational needs, speed, cost, and risk.

• Apply commercially calibrated risk judgment. Negotiate and provide practical guidance on liability caps, indemnities, warranties, intellectual property and content rights, confidentiality, data use, security, privacy, insurance, payment, termination, and dispute provisions. Understand which protections are essential, where Statusphere can responsibly accept risk, and when an issue requires executive or outside-counsel escalation.

• Own website and product legal content. Maintain and periodically update website Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, cookie and consent language, and other customer- or user-facing legal notices in coordination with Product, Marketing, Security, and outside specialists.

• Own Creator-Statusphere and Brand-Creator Agreements. Signed for each campaign and brands may have specific versions of this to deploy which must be monitored and auditable.

• Provide operational legal guidance. Answer day-to-day questions involving payments, contracting authority, creator relationships, content and usage rights, compliance, business processes, and other legal issues arising across the company.

• Build scalable legal operations. Create and maintain templates, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, approval thresholds, fallback positions, intake processes, signature workflows, and a contract repository that improve speed and consistency.

• Advise executives and manage escalation. Present the COO/CFO and other C-level leaders with a concise assessment of the issue, business impact, likelihood and severity of risk, available options, and a clear recommended path. Prioritize matters by business impact and coordinate outside counsel for specialized, jurisdiction-specific, or high-risk matters.

• Partner cross-functionally and learn the business. Build a strong working understanding of Statusphere’s customers, creator ecosystem, products, revenue model, deal economics, and operating workflows. Work closely with Sales and other teams to remove deal blockers, support accurate handoffs, and ensure contractual commitments are understood, documented, and operationally achievable.

• Other duties and projects as assigned

What We’re Looking For

• 4–6 years of post-J.D. transactional legal experience at a leading law firm, established corporation, high-growth startup, or a combination of these environments.

• Meaningful experience independently handling a high monthly volume of commercial contracts with consistently quick turnaround, while serving internal business partners who expect Legal to own the language, negotiation, risk recommendation, and path to resolution—not simply confirm their interpretation.

• Strong experience negotiating B2B SaaS, technology, digital services, agency, consulting, vendor, MSA, SOW, NDA, and customized commercial agreements.

• Demonstrated ability to run contract negotiations directly with sophisticated counterparties while maintaining momentum, protecting priority positions, and making commercially sound tradeoffs based on the company’s business model and objectives.

• Working knowledge of U.S. privacy and data-protection requirements, including CCPA/CPRA, and familiarity with GDPR and data-processing concepts relevant to SaaS and marketing technology.

• Sound judgment across intellectual property, content and data rights, confidentiality, indemnification, limitation of liability, warranties, security, insurance, payment, and termination issues.

• Executive-level communication skills and the ability to translate legal issues into concise business guidance: what the risk is, how it could affect the company, whether it is acceptable, what alternatives exist, and what action you recommend.

• Highly organized, responsive, and comfortable operating autonomously in a fast-moving remote environment with competing deadlines; known for rapid, reliable turnaround without sacrificing judgment or quality.

• A service-oriented, low-ego approach and the confidence to make decisions, escalate appropriately, and collaborate constructively across functions.

Education & Bar Admission

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school.

• Active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.

Work Experience

• Experience as an in-house attorney or on secondment in a SaaS, marketing technology, advertising technology, digital media, creator-economy, or enterprise technology business.

• Experience with usage-based, prepaid-credit, subscription, or other nontraditional software pricing models.

• Experience maintaining website terms, privacy notices, consent language, and practical privacy-compliance processes.

• Familiarity with contract-lifecycle management tools, e-signature platforms, structured intake workflows, and legal operations reporting.

How Success Will Be Measured

• Client and vendor contracts progress rapidly from commercial handoff through execution, with clear ownership, responsive turnaround, and minimal unnecessary business-team involvement in legal language.

• Legal risks and required decisions are identified early and communicated to C-level leaders in plain language, with commercially grounded options and a clear recommendation.

• Templates, playbooks, approvals, and workflows improve consistency and measurably shorten contract turnaround time as volume grows.

• Website, privacy, payment, and routine operational legal matters remain current, well managed, and aligned with the business.

Work Environment

This is a full-time, remote U.S. position. The role requires regular collaboration across time zones and occasional travel for company or team meetings. No special physical demands are required.

What You’ll Get

• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Flexible FTO and paid holidays

• 4% 401(k) match

• Work-from-anywhere flexibility

• Paid parental leave

• Employee stock options

• The opportunity to build Statusphere’s in-house legal function and legal operating model

• A collaborative, innovative, positive, and team-oriented culture

The salary range for this position is $175,000–$205,000. Compensation decisions are influenced by multiple factors, including but not limited to education, prior experience, training, skills, certifications, market demand, and internal equity.

While this is a remote role, we are prioritizing candidates located in the following states: CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, MI, NJ, NY, PA, SC,TN,TX,UT,WI, & VA.