Legal Counsel (Corporate & Commercial)

Join Betterment, a leading digital investment platform, as Legal Counsel - Corporate & Commercial. In this role, you will handle a variety of dealmaking and governance work, including negotiating vendor, technology, and commercial agreements, and supporting corporate and governance matters. The ideal candidate is a strong transactional attorney with at least 4 years of relevant experience, a JD, and admission to a state bar. You will work cross-functionally, build and improve standard form agreements and legal processes, and help resolve and avoid potential disputes.

• Draft, review, negotiate, and interpret a wide variety of commercial agreements, and provide legal support for corporate transactions.
• Advise on a broad range of commercial legal issues and strategic decisions, and partner with business teams on product development.
• Build and improve standard form agreements and legal processes, and help to resolve and avoid potential disputes.
• A bias toward action and solving problems, not just issue spotting
• A pragmatic negotiator who knows when to hold a position and when to find the deal
• A JD, admission to a state bar, and at least 4 years of relevant in-house or firm transactional experience
• The ability to take ownership over your work and manage projects independently
• Comfort navigating complexity and creating simplicity where possible
• The ability to to manage competing priorities and thrive in a fast-paced, technology-driven environment
• Excellent writing and communication skills, with the ability to translate legal risk into terms a non-lawyer will understand
• An collaborative mindset and innate curiosity
• A willingness to build scalable processes that drive efficiencies for a lean team charged with covering a considerable amount of ground
• Passion for Betterment’s product and mission
• Experience in retail financial services or representing financial services clients
• Experience with Ironclad or similar contract management tool
• In-house experience at a startup or high growth company