Senior Counsel, Litigation and Compliance

Who We Are

The Farmer’s Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We’re starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers’ doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.

To date, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.

#LongLiveDogs

What We Stand For and Where You'll Come In

We are looking for an experienced litigation and compliance attorney to join our fast-growing team as Senior Counsel, Litigation and Compliance, who will play an integral role as one of the core members of our Legal Department at The Farmer’s Dog. They will report to the General Counsel, and will work closely with stakeholders across the company to manage the company’s day-to-day litigation and dispute matters and support its compliance needs. The Senior Counsel is expected to further accelerate TFD’s momentum through working with the business to efficiently and proactively identify ways to mitigate risk and eliminate legal blockers. This is a high-impact role that requires a highly motivated individual with a passion for law, and of course, dogs!

One Team: We don’t think of ourselves as “Acquisition Marketers”, “Engineers”, “Data Analysts”, or “Product Managers”. Beyond denoting skill sets and areas of expertise, we don’t think departments matter. We’d rather align ourselves to the goals we’re working to achieve and make sure we have necessary subject matter expertise to drive meaningful impact. We strive to orient ourselves around customer problems TOGETHER – getting the right people, with the right context, in the right rooms/Zooms to solve problems holistically.

We are skeptical about everything and precious about nothing:  Ideas can and should come from anywhere, and we aren’t tied to our own. We proactively source input. We talk to our customers and leads regularly and are quick to change course if we know there’s a better or more impactful way to solve problems.

We consider the customer journey in all of our decisions:  We know that no interaction exists in a silo and therefore understand how important every single one is.  We ensure our strategy sets prospective and new customers up for success and drives long-term retention.  We answer questions and address problems early and proactively.  We understand the value of different channels, initiatives, and messages and know how to articulate impact and advocate for prioritization holistically.

We Execute For Impact: We don’t subscribe to “best practices” or “industry KPIs”. We’re uninterested in how we compare to “benchmarks”; instead we orient ourselves around being the best we can possibly be. Similarly, we don’t subscribe to rigid or classical expectations of roles – i.e. acquisition is hyper-focused on improving customer retention and experience.

We Are Focused and Work Without Assumption: We are not beholden to ideas. We seek to work in sequence and not in parallel. We are constantly taking in new information and adjusting our priorities accordingly. 

How You'll Make An Impact

• Serve as a key member of The Farmer’s Dog legal group, providing proactive and practical guidance to our internal business stakeholders and acting as a primary point of contact to internal stakeholders for dispute and various general compliance matters.
• Oversee and manage all aspects of dispute matters for the Company, including pre-litigation disputes, active cases, and arbitrations, working with outside counsel to the extent necessary and advising and shaping legal strategies to successful outcomes.
• Help develop, enhance and action The Farmer's Dog compliance-related strategies, projects and work, maintaining trust in the brand and ensuring alignment with legal requirements, strategic goals, and industry best practices.
• Work cross-functionally to develop and implement comprehensive policies and procedures to manage and mitigate both business and legal risk.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of applicable laws and regula