About Us 

At WeWork, we provide flexible workspace solutions to help businesses of all sizes thrive in more than 37 countries worldwide. The future of work is here, and we’re not just a part of that movement—we’re leading it. United by a desire to build a global community, our purpose is to give members the support to do their best work, and the space to take their ideas to new heights. Join us as we empower tomorrow’s world at work. 

About the Opportunity 

WeWork is seeking a Lead, Paralegal to provide comprehensive legal support across our global Intellectual Property, Marketing, and Privacy functions. This role is designed for a highly organized, process-driven, self-starting, and motivated individual who will facilitate the day-to-day operations of our brand protection and privacy programs, and provide responsive assistance to internal stakeholders across WeWork’s business lines. This is a high impact, cross functional role that will help protect the WeWork brand, support legal compliance, and facilitate growth. We are looking for someone with a baseline of technical experience that is hard-working, willing to learn, and eager to dive in head first to make an immediate impact. 

Responsibilities:

Intellectual Property and Marketing:

• Trademark Portfolio Maintenance: Monitor WeWork’s trademark watch notices for potential actions, compile recommendations, and prepare for and drive weekly discussions where decisions are made by attorneys on the team. Review, maintain and track trademark renewal/application deadlines. Collect specimens to support trademark applications, renewal or use as evidence in proceedings. Maintain an updated database of specimens to remain relevant to brand direction. Instruct and liaise with outside counsel on decision-points, action items, and requests for information. Review legal invoices for accuracy.

• Domain Watch Notices: Monitor domain watch notices for potential actions. Draft and submit domain takedown cease and desist letters as needed. Assist with UDRP complaint drafting and proceedings. Maintain an ongoing list of infringing domains to inform domain portfolio strategy. 

• Brand Enforcement: Perform research to assist in investigations of brand misuse and potential infringement. Liaise with and instruct outside counsel as needed. 

• Legal and Business Support: At the direction of attorneys on the team, draft terms and conditions and promotional offers for marketing materials, coordinating with stakeholders to ensure compliance with consumer protection laws from a global perspective. Draft and review agreements and licenses for marketing functions related to events, paid media, sponsorships, speaking engagements, and brand placements. Help conduct reviews in connection with new product and/or business launches.

Privacy:

• Data Subject Rights: Act as the primary owner of our global data subject rights (DSR) processes and management of DSR requests. Monitor and manage WeWork’s Privacy inbox and OneTrust privacy portal to effectively triage and process access, deletion and other DSR requests in a timely manner, coordinating with the privacy attorneys, IT and system owners and responding to data subjects within applicable legal deadlines

• Sales and Procurement Enablement: Support our sales and procurement functions by facilitating security questionnaires and compliance reviews.

• Records Maintenance: Support privacy program operations by updating Records of Processing Activities (ROPA), data maps, and policy documentation. Support WeWork’s compliance posture through accurate record-keeping, documentation, and audit preparation.

• Privacy/ Security Questionnaires: Draft responses to customer privacy/security questionnaires using templates and a centralized answer repository.

• Evidence Gathering: Assist with the maintenance of security certifications (e.g., ISO 27001) by gathering technical evidence and organizing documentation.

• Policy Updates: Help maintain and update WeWork’s privacy policies, cookie policies, and customer-facing compliance documentation.

• Vendor Risk Assessment: Support vendor risk assessments and third-party due diligence requests.

• Legal and Business Support: At the direction of attorneys on the team, facilitate the negotiation of data process