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About the Role
At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
As a Commercial Counsel at Instacart Greenhouse Board, you will play a vital role in solving incredibly hard problems as our business grows. This growth runs on commercial arrangements with partners, including retailer, partnerships, and vendor agreements. In this role, you will work closely with business development, partnerships, product, and operations to solve thorny legal problems and enable the business to scale and grow.
Why this role is on the menu
Without sound legal advice and creative solutions, commercial terms and business strategy lack the foundation needed to scale. A year from now, partner agreements will be drafted, negotiated, and implemented across the business, and internal teams will rely on you as a proactive legal partner who works exceptionally well cross-functionally.
Instacart is a Flex First team
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it is from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events.
Key Technical Responsibilities
- check_circle Draft, negotiate, and implement major enterprise and partner agreements across all areas of the business
- check_circle Lead negotiations with retailers and other strategic partners, aligning internal stakeholders and driving deals to close
- check_circle Provide strategic legal advice to internal business clients, including whether to approve, approve with conditions, decline, or escalate
- check_circle Lead special legal and cross-functional projects from start to finish
- check_circle Implement best practices for integrating AI into your work
- check_circle Stay current on advertising, competition, IP, consumer protection, gig economy, international, and privacy laws and regulations, and translate them into practical compliance advice
- check_circle Draft terms, policies, and disclosures, and build the processes that support them
- check_circle Advise internal clients on the application of executed agreements
- check_circle Create and update our form legal agreements and playbooks
- check_circle Train clients and colleagues on legal issues
- check_circle Think ahead, see around corners, and help the business prepare for future legal issues
Prerequisites & Qualifications
- check A J.D. from a top-tier law school and membership with at least one state bar (preferably California)
- check A minimum of 6 years of related experience working at a leading law firm or in-house legal department
- check Strong experience with legal issues affecting the Internet and e-commerce spaces, particularly privacy, SaaS, and payments
- check A strong history of managing strategic partner negotiations and contract drafting from start to finish
- check Strong negotiation presence and the ability to lead teams working towards a goal
- check Sound and practical business judgment and ability to manage multiple, high priority, competing priorities
- check The ability to provide clear, concise legal advice, work effectively cross-functionally to drive to results
- check A team player
About Instacart Greenhouse Board
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Instacart Greenhouse Board is a remote hiring entity operating within the United States technology and software sector, associated with Instacart's broader recruitment and organizational infrastructure. Instacart is a leading grocery technology company in North America, operating an online grocery shopping and delivery service that connects customers with retailers. The engineering and technology teams at Instacart build and maintain complex distributed systems, logistics platforms, machine learning models for recommendations and search, and scalable web and mobile applications.