Outtake - Head of Legal

New York City, New York, United States1mo ago

In Office Director NA Payments Legal Head of Legal Stripe Data Governance Governance Close Regulatory Compliance

Requirements

• 6–10 years of legal experience, including time at a top tier law firm (T14 background strongly preferred) and in house experience at a startup or technology company. • Strong experience negotiating enterprise commercial agreements, including high value contracts, partnerships, and multi party deal structures. • Proven ability to work directly with sales teams and support deal execution in fast moving environments. • Experience structuring agreements involving data, AI, or regulated products is strongly preferred. • High ownership mindset with the ability to operate independently and drive outcomes without heavy process or oversight. • Strong communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex legal concepts and drive alignment across technical and business stakeholders. • Ability to operate in ambiguity, make decisions quickly, and balance legal risk with business priorities. • Have experience at high growth or high talent density companies such as Palantir, Meta, Stripe, or similar. • Have negotiated large scale enterprise deals ($10M+), multi party agreements, or complex partnership structures. • Have worked on trust and safety, data governance, or AI related legal frameworks. • Have built or scaled an in house legal function from early stage to growth. • Life at Outtake • Outtake is backed by top-tier investors and operators who believe in our mission and our model: a lean, dense, exceptionally talented team building a category-defining product. With strong financial footing and a long runway, we prioritize creating an environment where people can do the best work of their careers. • Office: We are an in-person team (5 days a week, with flexibility as needed) working out of a stunning waterfront office in Brooklyn. Collaboration, speed, and clarity matter. • Office: • Health: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision for employees. • Health: • Time Away: Flexible PTO. We trust adults to manage energy, not clock time. • Time Away: • Culture & Team: Annual company retreats and regular in-person events. • Culture & Team:

Responsibilities

• Own and lead all commercial legal activity, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating enterprise customer agreements, partnership contracts, and multi party deal structures. • Partner directly with sales and GTM teams to support active deal cycles, joining negotiations, resolving legal blockers, and accelerating time to close. • Structure complex commercial arrangements, including enterprise agreements, data sharing partnerships, and multi stakeholder contracts involving regulated data and AI driven products. • Develop standardized contract templates, fallback positions, and negotiation frameworks that reduce friction and increase deal velocity across the pipeline. • Act as the primary legal counterpart in high value negotiations, balancing risk tolerance with business objectives to enable revenue generation. • Translate legal and regulatory constraints into practical deal structures that allow the business to move forward without unnecessary delay. • Build and own the internal legal function, consolidating work currently handled by multiple external firms into a centralized, execution focused capability. • Manage external counsel selectively for specialized matters, while ensuring core commercial and product work is handled in house. • Support product and engineering teams on legal considerations related to trust and safety, fraud, identity abuse, and data usage, ensuring compliance without slowing product velocity. • Design and maintain frameworks for privacy, data protection, and regulatory compliance across jurisdictions, including U.S., EU, and UK requirements. • Advise leadership on legal risk, deal strategy, and regulatory exposure, providing clear recommendations that enable fast decision making. • Support corporate and strategic initiatives, including fundraising, board processes, and company level governance as needed.