LiveKit

4 weeks ago

Head of Legal

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 13 hours agoStatus: Live

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

Glassdoor: 5.0

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor

Loading job details...

Preparing the role view and application actions.

LiveKit

4 weeks ago

Head of Legal

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI

Last checked: 13 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

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

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

Glassdoor: 5.0

Website LinkedIn Glassdoor