VP, Legal Counsel

We are seeking a smart dynamic and ambitious VP Legal Counsel to lead Celtras Legal function from our New York City office. Reporting to our Co-Founder & CFO and partnering closely with our Founder & CEO this role requires a highly collaborative legal business partner who is comfortable advising and influencing pivotal legal and commercial decisions that will shape the future of the company.

As Celtras senior legal leader sitting on the Executive team this individual will have full ownership of all contractual matters while also overseeing intellectual property privacy compliance employment and corporate initiatives across the business.

Celtra is an AI-powered SaaS company enabling creative automation for the worlds most iconic brands and digital media companies and youll be the go-to legal authority helping drive our next phase of growth. This is a rare opportunity for a commercially-minded tech-savvy attorney who has already operated at a senior level within a SaaS organization and is now ready to step into the top seat.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as Celtras senior legal leader across all commercial product corporate and privacy matters
• Architect scalable legal processes that support growth improve execution and protect the business
• Advise Founders and Executives as a trusted strategic partner connecting legal risk to business strategy
• Lead all negotiation and execution of enterprise customer partnership and vendor contracts (MSAs SOWs DPAs NDAs etc.)
• Join forces with Sales leadership to move deals quickly through enterprise procurement processes
• Own privacy and compliance programs including data mapping privacy by design privacy impact assessments incident response third-party vendormanagement and related policies and trainings concerning data privacy under the GDPR CCPA and similar regulations
• Oversee third-party information security audits (SOC2) security questionnaires and compliance responses for enterprise RFPs partnering tightly with Product Engineering and IT/Security teams
• Champion documentation policy management and education across the organization
• Actively collaborate with Product Technology Finance and HR teams to provide proactive actionable legal guidance
• Support M&A corporate development fundraising and governance initiatives
• Manage outside counsel relationships

The Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• A JD and 10 years of progressive legal experience with a strong track record in the technology/SaaS space
• Significant in-house experience including senior-level ownership of commercial contracting and privacy matters; hands-on experience negotiating B2B commercial agreements
• A demonstrated ability to position Legal as a strategic business partner and enabler of growth through experience supporting enterprise sales teams and working directly with security/product functions
• Deep experience negotiating complex enterprise-level SaaS agreements with fluency in both business and technical considerations
• Experience leading a small legal team with the judgment to effectively delegate work (within Legal or cross-functionally) while ensuring completeness and high quality outcomes
• Ability to explain complex legal concepts to non-legal audiences
• Success operating in fast-paced founder-led environments with a willingness to build refine and scale processes
• A mindset of responsiveness and accessibility with the ability to step in quickly when business-critical legal issues arise
• The executive presence ambition and long-term vision to grow into a future General Counsel role

About Celtra

Celtra is the leading Creative Automation platform built to help marketing and creative teams scale high-performing digital advertising across every channel and format. Our platform powers creative production distribution and optimization combining workflow automation with AI-driven insights to help global brands unlock creative efficiency and drive superior ad performance.

Top marketers at brands like Unilever Spotify Adidas and Bloomberg rely on Celtra to build and deliver dynamic personalized creative at scale. We integrate seamlessly with platforms such as Meta Google Amazon and The Trade Desk.

Empowering Creativity through Diversity & Inclusion
Our mission is to empower creativity - and we cannot fulfill our mission without different perspectives. Diversity drives innovation and Celtra is committed to diversity equity inclusion and belonging.

Every employee is empowered at Celtra - no matter your race age religion gender identity sexual orientation physical or mental ability or ethnicity. We hire the best and develop our teams through continuous education and mentorship in a community where everyone can bring their whole selves to work.

Base Salary Range: $200000 - $225000 - dependent on seniority and applicable experience

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