Head of Legal and Compliance (Remote)
San Francisco, California
Featured Roles – Featured Roles /
Full-time /
Remote
Please note: this opportunity is either based in the San Francisco Bay Area or fully remote. At this time, due to business registration status, we are unable to consider candidates located outside the following US states: Arizona, California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, or Texas.
🟢 The Company
Springboard is redefining professional education through immersive, online courses in cutting-edge fields like data, design, and software engineering. Our self-paced, online offerings give anyone, anywhere access to world-class learning resources with an emphasis on project-based learning, industry-relevant curriculum, and tangible outcomes. Spanning direct-to-consumer, University Partnerships, and Springboard for Business, we're ultimately human-centric: each student has 1:1 support from industry-expert mentors, student advisors, and career coaches, with access to our peer and alumni communities.
What we help students build goes well beyond just skills – we help our students build momentum. Momentum is powerful: it propels us forward, unlocks opportunity, and provides access. It helps us turn fear into confidence, difficulty into certainty, and progress into reality. It helps us lead better lives. Momentum is what our human-guided career advancement platform can create at scale. This is our purpose.
🟢 The Opportunity
We’re seeking Springboard’s first Head of Legal and Compliance to advance our mission and work to bridge the world’s skills gap. In this critical role, you’ll execute key legal work, provide strategic guidance on mitigating risks, and oversee regulatory compliance. This is an incredible opportunity to impact thousands of students’ lives — and you’ll have a high degree of visibility into and influence on the business!
🟢 What you’ll accomplish:
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including customer agreements, vendor contracts, license agreements, and partnership agreements
- Identify and communicate short- and long-term risks to the company, while bringing a pragmatic, solution-oriented approach to advising decision-makers
- Lead end-to-end efforts on regulatory compliance, including defining compliance strategy, monitoring regulatory changes, submitting annual reports, and serving as the point person for agency interactions
- Manage the legal budget and outside legal counsel, as needed, to ensure cost-effective and high-quality legal representation
- Implement efficient systems for contract governance and management
🟢 You might be a great fit if you:
- Have a JD and are a member of a state bar in good standing. Our preference is for candidates with 5-6+ years of legal experience within a law firm and/or serving as in-house counsel
- Are a data-driven decision maker and problem solver with a proven track record of providing good counsel to executives and senior leaders
- Are comfortable taking ownership and being self-sufficient in defining project needs, setting objectives, and executing against them
- Possess excellent communication (written and oral), negotiation, presentation, and relationship building skills
🟢 Why Springboard? Here are some details about benefits, compensation, perks, and more:
- Salary range: $172,000 - $210,000 USD annually. Individual compensation packages are based on a few different factors unique to each candidate, including their skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other job-related considerations.
- Equity: Ownership is one of our values and each full-time employee has the opportunity to invest in Springboard via a stock option (equity) grant after they vest.
- #alwaysbelearning: Receive up to $5,200 per year in learning + development stipends, free access to our courses, bi-annual performance reviews, and regular career check-ins with leaders who truly care about your growth.
- Equipment: We’ll provide a company MacBook and one-time $500 employee effectiveness stipend to set up your home office.
- Time off: We offer flexible, unlimited PTO, 10 paid holidays, and company-wide Wellness Days.
- Remote work flexibility: as part of our hybrid approach to work, we offer the option to travel and work around the world for up to 90 days per year. We also host (remote-enabled) global company gatherings, department offsites, and/or visits to our San Francisco HQ.
- Health + Wellness: Choose from a range of medical, dental, and vision insurance plans (premiums start at $0/month) and access 12 company-sponsored therapy and coaching sessions annually via Modern Health.
- Parental Benefits: Adding to your family? So exciting! We offer all new parents 12 weeks’ paid bonding leave, plus up to 6 additional weeks for birth parents (additional state benefits may apply).
The Springboard team of 250 embraces a hybrid approach to work, with headquarters in the heart of San Francisco and Bengaluru. We’re backed by top investors, including Costanoa Ventures, Reach Capital, Learn Capital, Pearson Ventures, and the founders of LinkedIn and Princeton Review.
Don’t meet every single requirement? Apply anyway: at Springboard, we believe in the value of transferable skills and non-traditional experience. We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), Springboard is required to inform California residents who are job applicants about the categories of personal information we collect about you and the purposes for which we will use this information. This notice contains disclosures required by the CCPA and applies only to personal information that is subject to the CCPA.
