Senior Product Counsel

About Faire

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local ?" there are over 2 million independent retailers in North America and Europe doing more than $2 trillion in revenue. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town ?" we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.

By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. We're looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.

About this role

We are looking for a self-motivated, organized and creative lawyer to become the second member of Faire's legal department. This person will have a broad and diverse range of responsibilities, providing legal guidance to support Faire throughout all phases of the product development life cycle while managing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance. They will tackle topics such as privacy, data security, payments, marketing, and intellectual property that arise out of the operation and growth of an international wholesale marketplace business.

What you'll do

• Provide guidance to executives, engineers and product managers on issues related to new and existing services, products, and features throughout the entire product lifecycle
• Manage the evolution and implementation of terms of use, content policies, disclosures, FAQs and other customer-facing legal policies and resources
• Advise on commercial and intellectual property agreements affecting the company's products and services
• Drive compliance policies and processes relating to product development, privacy, security and data protection across multiple jurisdictions
• Draft and negotiate various commercial agreements, including SAAS subscription agreements, partnership and vendor agreements, and other commercial or technology licensing agreements
• Monitor evolving laws that may impact Faire's products and services, and assist with operationalizing and implementing compliant solutions where applicable
• Coordinate advice with cross-functional stakeholders, including Product, Engineering, Marketing, Tax and others

Qualifications

• Law degree and admitted to practice in at least one US jurisdiction (preferably NY or CA)
• 7+ years combined experience in law firm and/or in-house legal department
• Experience with one or more of the following: Product or regulatory counseling, consumer protection, privacy (including GDPR), data security, and/or intellectual property law
• Excellent business communication and analytical skills, as well as an impeccable attention to detail and strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Ability to distill complexity and to identify and clearly communicate practical, risk-based solutions
• Ability to effectively advance innovative products while balancing risk to the broader company

Why you'll love working at Faire

• We are entrepreneurs: Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team is an owner of the business and taking part in the founding process.
• We are using technology and data to level the playing field: We are leveraging the power of product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners.
• We build products our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie - not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy.
• We are curious and resourceful: Inquisitive by default, we explore every possibility, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions to the challenges at hand. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first principles mentality.

Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We're backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Toronto, London, New York, LA, and Sao Paulo. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog.

Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.