Head of Legal

Dojo is a company used in 95% of US K-8 schools and by 1 in 4 American families, reaching about 50 million kids in 180 countries. The Head of Legal will sit on the leadership team, work directly with the co-founders, and own all of legal, including product, privacy, commercial, corporate, employment, IP, regulatory and litigation. The role focuses on setting Dojo's position on kids' tech regulation, making legal a driver of faster shipping, and building a small, high-performing legal team that uses AI. The company is distributed and hires regardless of location, with significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones required.

Responsibilities

Sit on the leadership team and work directly with the co-founders; Own all of legal: product, privacy, commercial, corporate, employment, IP, regulatory and litigation; Decide where Dojo stands on hard questions in kids' tech (AI that talks to children, kids playing together online, how products for kids should make money) and say it publicly; Figure out which seals and certifications change parent or district decisions, and win them; Make privacy one of the reasons districts pick Dojo; Handle regulator inquiries so the product and reputation come out unharmed; Get involved early with product, engineering and partnerships, find shippable versions, name real showstoppers and tell teams what to do this week; Turn standard contracts in hours and product questions in two days; Write playbooks so district data agreements, partnerships and vendor deals close without starting from zero; Lead and grow a small in-house team and hold outside counsel to budget and standard; Put AI into daily work on contracts, data agreements and privacy reviews and decide what stays in-house versus with specialists; Own M&A, financing and board matters with the CFO and keep the company ready for a deal or raise on short notice

Requirements

Has led legal at a consumer tech company of 100 to 1,000 people, where product and engineering create most of the value; Product and business leaders who've worked with them say they made them faster and found answers they hadn't seen; Owned privacy for a consumer product, ideally for kids, across COPPA, FERPA, state student privacy laws, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR and the new rules on AI (or learns fast if depth is narrower); Comfortable running M&A, financings and board work alongside a CFO; Has led talent-dense teams and managed several outside firms to budget; Knows the right specialist for almost any problem; Has rebuilt legal work with AI and can explain how three lawyers plus specialists can match fifteen; Turns messy problems into the two or three decisions that matter and writes short; Holds a position without starting a war and changes their mind when facts change; Moves decisions on trust rather than title; Moves fast and raises the bar on ambition as well as rigor; Willing to have significant hours overlap with one of the Americas time zones

Nice to have

10+ years in law, ideally including child-directed products or student data; Time spent in strategy consulting, operating, finance or engineering; Has stepped into an existing legal function and made it markedly better, or led a distributed team; Can tell Dojo's story to a regulator, a reporter or a partner and leave them on their side