Team

TripleLift’s Legal team supports our rapidly evolving and growing global advertising business. Our mandate is to provide strategic and practical legal advice to all functions throughout the organization – and our day to day work is diverse, ranging from drafting and negotiating contracts to evaluating product offerings to monitoring and addressing legislative and regulatory developments that affect the future of the internet. We are energized by the challenges of serving a dynamic, fast-growing company that’s shaping the future of online advertising in a complex ecosystem.

Role

TripleLift is seeking a highly-motivated and entrepreneurial attorney. In this role, you will work closely with internal clients spanning multiple functions across TripleLift to understand and assess legal and business risks and make sound decisions under tight deadlines. This role will report to the General Counsel and includes opportunities for growth.

The ideal candidate is a lawyer with deep experience in labor and/or corporate law, a desire to learn and grow, and strong project management skills. This person is comfortable making decisions and will develop strong relationships across the business to support TripleLift as we develop our people and corporate governance processes. This person can draft and negotiate effectively and is excited about taking initiative to drive efficiency by improving and building out the team’s processes, procedures, and forms as we continue to expand. This person is also a creative problem-solver and is not only comfortable but thrives in a high growth environment where they will work on exciting and complex legal issues that may even influence new legal precedent and shape the internet of the future.

Responsibilities

Labor & Employment

• Partner with the People team to drive the development of best in class, consistent employment practices, policies, and tools that align with TripleLift’s strategy, values, and business goals.
• Work with outside counsel to provide day-to-day proactive employment law counseling and support resolution of HR and legal employment issues in TripleLift’s international markets.
• Provide day to day counseling and advice on US employment law across a variety of areas including employee relations, performance management, dispute resolution, leaves of absence and workforce issues.
• Create, update, and provide training programs on various employment law topics. Oversee and/or provide support regarding employment-related litigation, claims, charges, investigations, audits, and subpoenas.
• Audit employment policies, practices, and compliance initiatives with business clients; identify potential areas of vulnerability and risk; develop and implement corrective action plans for resolution of problematic issues.
• Monitor employment law-related legislation, regulations, legal developments, and government oversight activities that may affect TripleLift.
• Draft employment-related agreements, including employment offers, contractor agreements, separation agreements, etc.
• Provide communications relating to new federal, state, and local legislation and regulations; work with business stakeholders to integrate new procedures and revised policies.
• Assist with the review and negotiation of client and vendor agreements and in furtherance of internal compliance initiatives.

Corporate

• Lead on matters relating to corporate governance for US and international subsidiaries, including working with outside counsel to deliver advice tailored to TripleLift.
• Advise on and manage new growth initiatives, including international expansion and entering new markets.
• Develop, refine, and maintain policies and procedures to ensure compliance with federal, state and international laws.
• Work with the General Counsel to support the corporate secretarial function and the board of directors, including preparation of agendas and materials for board of directors and committee meetings, including board minutes, resolutions and actions.
• Support future corporate initiatives, including potential acquisitions and financing activity.
• Help develop, implement and support the continuous improvement of standard form agreements, legal processes, policies and training.
• Ensure compliance with the Company’s corporate governance policies and procedures, ethical practices, and Company values, by providing guidance and support to business partners throughout the Company, including finance, treasury, tax, business development, commercial, policy, and real estate.
• Advise on, and prepare and review documents prepared by external counsel and external service providers relating to, subsidiary governance matters such as legal entity formations, mergers, restructurings, and dissolutions/liquidations; revisions to governance documents; board and officer changes; shareholder and board resolutions; and integration of and rationalization of acquired legal entities.
• Assist international legal teams to ensure compliance with changes in international laws and regulations pertaining to subsidiary governance matters, including related to environmental and other ESG matters.
• Provide legal counsel to the finance, tax and treasury groups, including in connection with financing activities and transactions, such as subsidiary capitalizations and distributions; provide legal advice on legal entity formations, liquidations, dissolutions, restructurings and other transactions related to the Company’s legal entity structure
• Assist with general corporate matters in Legal, including M&A, treasury, finance, regulatory, equity investment, and other cross-functional projects.

Requirements

Qualifications

• Licensed to practice in NY with superior academic credentials
• 4+ years of corporate transactional or employment law experience. Combination of both is ideal.
• In-house experience is strongly preferred
• International experience is required.

Skills

• Excellent project-management and operational skills, with experience of leading projects to successful conclusion
• A self-starter, able to work autonomously and direct the best course of action without close supervision
• Shows strong ownership skills, willing to tackle all relevant tasks (including those perceived as junior or administrative) in service of the end goal
• Ability to understand technology and understand the interplay between legal, policy and strategy
• Excellent business judgment and ability to assess legal risk while also thinking strategically and providing practical advice
• Strong work ethic and ability to multi-task and understand and manage shifting priorities and multiple projects
• Exceptional communication, analytical and writing skills

Logistics:

• Willing and able to commute to our New York City office 3 days per week.

More About You

• You are passionate about a culture of learning and growing. You love challenging yourself to constantly learn and improve, and sharing your knowledge to empower others
• You believe in providing the best service to customers which includes empowering them by collaborating on efficient processes and providing knowledge and tools
• You embrace uncertainty and thrive on driving change. You enjoy challenging the status quo and working in an industry where technology changes daily and providing legal advice requires a deep understanding of the interplay between technology, policy, strategy and business interests
• You like to take risks when looking for novel solutions to complex problems. If faced with roadblocks, you continue to take initiative to reach the best solution

Location

New York, NY

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