At GoGuardian, we're helping share the future of digital learning by providing educators, students, and schools with tools to create engaging and equitable learning environments. Together, we build innovative solutions to empower students, deliver insights, and encourage experimentation. With employees around the globe, we're committed to building a culture of inclusivity, curiosity, and courage. GoGuardian's growth is fast and ever-evolving, and our teams are growing along with it - always ready to experiment and learn.
While this job posting uses "El Segundo, CA" as the location, please note this role is currently being recruited for remote work or reporting to headquarters if within commuting distance.
As the Commercial Counsel, you will support internal business partners and assist on a broad variety of transactional matters in a growing technology company in the education space. We seek an individual with a strong background in commercial contracts relevant to a technology company as they relate to our K-12 school customers and vendors. This individual should be adaptable to a quickly-changing and fast-paced environment.
What You'll Do

• Providing strategic counsel on a broad range of initiatives and draft and negotiate a broad range of agreements (including Master Services agreements, terms of service, services agreements, collaboration agreements, integration agreements, and other SaaS agreements, requests for proposals) supporting GoGuardian's business teams, with a primary focus of supporting the licensing of GoGuardian's products and services to its K-12 school customers (including RFPs) and licensing software of vendors.
• Maintaining knowledge of applicable laws, regulations and industry guidance that impact GoGuardian's agreements and business practices.
• Supporting GoGuardian's privacy program, including by maintaining some fluency in student and children privacy, including the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and various state student privacy laws.
• Maintaining knowledge and providing guidance on school and local and state government contracts, including the request for proposal process.
• Working cross-functionally with business and legal colleagues to support the business.
• Helping maintain company compliance on day-to-day issues
• Being a key leader of the legal team's efforts in the preparation, implementation and refinement of forms, processes and procedures as GoGuardian scales.
• Helping with other legal or compliance needs as they arise.

Who You Are

• 5+ years of experience in a law firm and/or technology company J.D. from a well-regarded law school and active good standing with at least one state bar
• Prior experience supporting a heavy volume of commercial transactions relevant to a technology company across various business functions in a fast-paced environment
• Superb drafting and negotiation skills
• Familiarity with privacy (especially child and/or student privacy) and security is a plus
• Familiarity with contracting with K-12 public schools, local governments, and/or state governments is a plus
• Independent, self-starter who operates autonomously while being a collaborative team player
• Strong organizational skills and the ability to simultaneously manage several projects
• Clear, collaborative, and effective communication with business teams, especially sellers.

What We Offer

• A varied and challenging role in a multinational and highly innovative company
• A robust benefits package including health insurance, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, employee stock option plan, paid parental leave, 13 paid company holidays, and much more
• Development and further training opportunities for shaping and realizing your career goals
• Exceptional colleagues with a passion for EdTech

GoGuardian is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. GoGuardian does not discriminate against employees, applicants, interns or volunteers on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, sex, age, sexual orientation, military and veteran status, registered domestic partner status, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.
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