Vice President – General Counsel

Job Description: • Draft, redline, and negotiate a high volume of complex commercial agreements daily (e.g., brand, vendor, SaaS, logistics), ensuring a fast, business-friendly deal desk. • Design and implement legal self-service tools, clause libraries, and CLM workflows to drive contract velocity and lower internal friction. • Provide opinioned leadership on early case assessment, discovery, and settlement, and direct outside counsel on contract disputes, IP enforcement, and product claims. • Tightly scope, set budgets, and manage outside counsel for all legal matters, ensuring costs are controlled and strategy aligns with business goals. • Advise on specialized areas like tariffs/Incoterms, customs, AP/AR mechanics, brand funding, and marketplace policies. • Oversee trademark/copyright, brand registry, takedowns, and licensing structures to actively protect the company's brand and IP assets. • Partner with and coach deal teams (Merchandising, Ops, Finance, Tech) on contract structure, leverage, and translating legal risk into business outcomes. Requirements: • JD and active bar admission in at least one U.S. state (or eligible for in-house registration). • 10–15+ years of legal experience with a significant amount of in-house time. • Proven experience in ecommerce, retail, supply chain, marketplaces, or logistics is strongly preferred. • Expertise in a broad range of commercial agreements including supply, distribution, dropship/fulfillment, and SaaS/data contracts. • Track record of building templates, playbooks, and CLM workflows to simplify and scale legal support. • Working knowledge of topics such as Incoterms, tariffs/COO, product safety/labeling, marketing claims, and IP/brand protection. • Demonstrated ability to be a "Business-first counselor" who is hands-on, practical, and comfortable taking calculated risks. Benefits: • We provide the flexibility to take care of yourself. Spreetail operates in a work culture that promotes results and encourages taking time off when needed. In addition to a generous vacation policy, we also offer paid time-off for your wedding week, paid parental leave and support for parents of growing families. • We celebrate accomplishments. Each year at Spreetail is a milestone with the opportunity to receive special gifts, swag store credit, or donations to a nonprofit of your choice. We also recognize people pursuing impacts with Spreetail Spotlight Awards. • We care about your Health & Wellness. Spreetail works hard to enhance the employee experience through benefit programs and perks that provide meaningful support. We offer affordable medical, dental and vision plans with coast-to-coast coverage. We also provide free telehealth and on-demand mental health resources. • We create the opportunity to revolutionize your community. We encourage Spreetailers to give back and make a social impact, and we offer paid time off to do it. Apply tot his job