Head of Legal

About the job: Hi, I’m Shane and I’m the VP of Finance & Ops at Ashby. Ashby is in a high growth phase (growing more than 120% y/y with more than 5,000 customers), selling into SMB, mid-market and enterprise segments, and our legal function is at an inflection point. Today, that’s a strong team of 3 who are experienced in commercial work and legal ops. We’re hiring a Head of Legal to lead Ashby’s entire legal function and who is focused on scaling the legal team’s impact as fast as the rest of the business is growing. Your job is to broaden the legal function to cover everything a company like ours needs, personally owning our corporate work while deciding what we build in-house, where we lean on outside counsel, and when we add to the team. You’ll be the senior legal voice at Ashby and a close advisor to our leadership team. This is an ownership role, and you’ll operate with a significant amount of autonomy. Every company says it wants legal to be a true business partner. Few build a legal function that actually works that way. Slow legal review doesn’t guarantee a safer company, but it does guarantee a slower one. The best legal teams understand the business well enough to know w... Click Apply to read the full job description.