Head of Legal

LiveKit
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 120,000 - 250,000 annuallyFunction: Legal, Risk & ComplianceSkills: []

Senior in-house legal leader responsible for end-to-end commercial contracting, data privacy program governance, and strategic legal partnership across Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering. Owns open-source/IP, AI governance, and regulatory questions while managing outside counsel to keep spend in check, enabling fast business execution with sound risk judgment.

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LiveKit
LiveKit
2 months ago

Head of Legal

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Job Summary

Senior in-house legal leader responsible for end-to-end commercial contracting, data privacy program governance, and strategic legal partnership across Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering. Owns open-source/IP, AI governance, and regulatory questions while managing outside counsel to keep spend in check, enabling fast business execution with sound risk judgment.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Legal, Risk & Compliance
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own commercial contracting end to end — customer MSAs, order forms, DPAs, BAAs, vendor agreements, and NDAs — and build the playbooks and templates that let the GTM team move fast
  • •Stand up and run our privacy and data-protection program (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA) for a company built on real-time voice and media data
  • •Be the legal partner to Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering — the person who helps deals close and products ship, on the right side of the risk line
  • •Own corporate and governance work alongside Finance — board consents, equity mechanics, and entity and cap-table hygiene
  • •Set our posture on the things that are specific to us: open-source licensing and IP, AI governance, and telecom/SIP regulatory questions
  • •Manage outside counsel surgically — decide what comes in-house, and keep spend in check

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 120,000 - 250,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionEquity

Key Requirements

  • •Extensive in-house and high-growth tech company contracting experience (MSAs, order forms, DPAs, BAAs, vendor agreements, NDAs) and ability to build templates to accelerate GTM.
  • •Fluent in privacy/data protection regulations (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, HIPAA) and experience standing up a privacy program.
  • •Experience being the first (or among the first) in-house legal function at a fast-growing tech company and owning the function end-to-end.
  • •Strong business partner mindset with the ability to advise Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering while balancing speed and risk.
  • •Open-source licensing/IP experience and familiarity with AI governance; comfortable managing outside counsel and keeping spend in check.
Experience:Developer platformAIOpen sourceTelecommunicationsSaaS

Company Brief

LiveKit
LiveKit provides an open-source realtime cloud and developer platform for building, deploying, and scaling voice, video, and physical AI agents with low-latency WebRTC infrastructure and edge services for production voice/video applications.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series C
Headquarters: San Jose, United States
Founded: 2021
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