Sr. Corporate Counsel - Litigation & Compliance (Remote)

ezCater is the leading food for work technology company in the US, connecting anyone who needs food for their workplace to over 100,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from recurring employee meals to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 customer service with real humans. ezCater also enables companies to manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps them grow their business by bringing them more orders and new high-value customers.  We're backed by top investors including Insight, Iconiq, Lightspeed, GIC, SoftBank, and Quadrille.

ezCater seeks an experienced, highly motivated, creative and strategic legal professional to join its growing in-house legal team. You will report directly to the Vice President & Assistant General Counsel for Litigation, Insurance & Compliance and be responsible for developing effective, practical, risk-balanced advice to key cross-functional stakeholders across the business on a variety of issues. 

What You'll Do:

Litigation & Controversy

• Development of legal defense strategies in a variety of litigation and pre-litigation matters from inception, through discovery and successful outcome.  This includes identification and management of selected outside counsel where appropriate, as well as taking the lead on resolving matters without the assistance of outside counsel where possible and prudent. 
• Oversight of tracking and reporting all dispute and pre-dispute data, spend and outcomes.  This includes managing relationships with insurance carriers and claims adjusters on covered claims.
• Leading the development of internal processes to quickly identify and ensure escalation of significant issues or complaints that could risk ezCater’s brand or reputation and creation of a playbook for internal response, diffusion and tracking of the same. This includes the development and delivery of training for internal stakeholders on escalation processes and requirements.
• Management of the company’s legally required document preservation practices and development of training for information partners internally to ensure data preservation and enable consistent and reliable collection of company information to support litigation, investigation or other legal proceedings.  This will include close collaboration with ezCater’s internal security and information technology partners to help drive development of mature data governance practices, advising on data retention and deletion practices, as well as collaborating to draft internal policies.

Compliance

• Advising ezCater’s People team on all legal aspects of employment, compensation and benefits practices as well as collaborating on solutions to significant employee relations matters as needed.   
• Leading compliance efforts around ezCater’s data privacy and security practices, development of policies, related customer communications and disclosures and ensuring the Company develops and adheres to best practices for auditing compliance with state and federal requirements as well as contractual data terms with ezCater Enterprise partners. 
• Monitoring the developing field of Artificial Intelligence and compliance requirements at state and federal levels to advise ezCater on its growing implementation of AI to drive growth and service its customers.  This will include staying abreast of B2B market dynamics around contracting for AI consent and usage in a SAAS environment.
• Ongoing identification, generally, of regulations or regulatory trends, evaluating their applicability to ezCater’s business, analyzing scope and possible product or process changes necessary to maintain or ensure compliance and partnering with internal stakeholders to design and implement such changes.
• Assist in the development and implementation of internal controls, policies, procedures, and trainings to support compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

What You Have:

• A minimum of 8 years combined experience in-house or at a well-established law firm, including working directly with senior executives and leading litigation matters from inception through resolution with proven track record of successful outcomes. 
• Significant time devoted to advising on employment related issues in an in-house capacity, including internal disputes, wage & hour requirements and development of HR policies.  
• Prior experience or at a minimum an eagerness to quickly gain experience advising on data privacy and security, including building compliant processes for collecting and managing data, customer disclosures, drafting data governance policies and audit