VP, Corporate Legal

The Legal Team

Who We Are

HubSpots Legal team is a proactive business-enabling partnernot a back-office function. We help our teams move fast smart and responsibly. As a publicly traded AI-native company Legal plays a critical role in balancing innovation with rigorhelping HubSpot scale responsibly while maintaining trust compliance and clarity.

How We Work

At HubSpot Legal is a growth engine. We value clarity over complexity ownership over bureaucracy and empathy over ego. If youre someone who sees legal frameworks as strategic leversnot roadblockslets talk.

The Role

Were hiring a Vice President Corporate Legal to lead HubSpots global corporate securities and governance function. Youll be the companys principal legal advisor on public-company reporting corporate governance and compliance and strategic transactions.

This role blends precision with pragmatism. Youll be accountable for getting it rightensuring the accuracy completeness and integrity of our disclosures and governance practiceswhile staying grounded in the business realities of a fast-moving AI-native company.

Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer youll partner closely with the executive leadership as well as Finance Accounting Investor Relations and Corporate Development. Youll serve as a trusted advisor to HubSpots Board of Directorsdriving effective Board conversation and governance.

What Youll Do

1. Excel in Public-Company Reporting

Bring rigor and sound judgment to every disclosure.

• Oversee SEC and other public company reporting compliance including 10-K 10-Q 8-K proxy statements and disclosure controls.
  
  
• Partner with Finance and Investor Relations to ensure reporting accuracy and cohesive market messaging.
  
  
• Guide teams through earnings cycles and regulatory events with clarity and confidence.
  
  
• Manage HubSpots insider-trading and executive-ownership programs including Section 16 filings and Rule 10b5-1 plan oversight.
  
  

2. Uplevel Board Interactions

Ensure sound governance and effective Board operations.

• Serve as a trusted interface for the Board and committeesplanning meeting cadence to support effective governance and strategy conversations capturing minutes and facilitating clear information flow.
  
  
• Advise on director independence charters policies and insider-trading compliance.
  
  
• Coordinate proxy-advisor engagements and annual-meeting logistics with Finance and IR.
  
  
• Oversee subsidiary and entity governance worldwide to maintain a clean corporate structure and compliance.
  
  

3. Shape Strategic Transactions and Investments

Enable smart scalable growth through collaboration.

• Partner with Corporate Development and HubSpot Ventures on M&A and investment activities from term sheet through integration.
  
  
• Structure and negotiate transactions that balance speed risk management and long-term value.
  
  
• Collaborate across teams to build repeatable legal playbooks for seamless deal execution and integration.
  
  

4. Build and Scale the Corporate Legal Team for an AI-First Future

You bring HubSpots easy fast product mindset to Legalbuilding systems that scale judgment not just people and leveraging AI to build a hybrid legal team of the future.

• Design for leverage. Build a legal operating model that uses AI automation intelligent workflows and self-service tools to streamline how teams receive corporate and governance supportfewer bottlenecks and backlogs.
  
  
• Develop for scale. Structure mentor and evolve the team to match HubSpots growthensuring depth in key specialties while maintaining flexibility and speed.
  
  
• Empower with clarity. Create tools templates and playbooks that make complex processes simple and repeatable across the company.
  
  
• Lead with culture. Foster a high-performing inclusive team where curiosity agility and ownership are the normand Legal is seen as a growth enabler not just a risk manager.
  
  

What Youll Bring

• 15 years of corporate and securities law experience at public companies and/or top law firms.
  
  
• Deep expertise in 34 Act reporting Section 16 compliance Rule 10b5-1 plans and corporate-governance best practices.
  
  
• Experience advising Boards and executive teams in a high-growth global environment.
  
  
• Proven ability to support M&A and venture transactions from diligence through integration.
  
  
• Track record as a practical practitionerable to translate complex requirements into business-ready solutions.
  
  
• Systems-oriented thinker who builds repeatable processes and measures what matters.
  
  
• Inspirational people leader who develops high-performing inclusive teams.
  
  
• JD and active bar membership (required).