Assistant Corporate Counsel (Commercial)

ezCater is the #1 food tech platform for workplaces in the US. The company makes it easy for any organization to manage its food needs and order from over 125,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from employee meal programs to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 service and business-grade reliability. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps grow their business by bringing them new high-value customers and large orders.

What You'll Do:

• Drafting, negotiating, reviewing and interpreting a wide variety of commercial agreements, including vendor contracts and other agreements to support the business, ensuring both business and legal objectives are met
• Building and improving our contract templates, playbooks, talk tracks and legal processes to help our business scale
• Developing, delivering and refreshing trainings on legal issues, contract best practices and key negotiating points
• Providing practical legal analysis, strategy and guidance to internal clients and cross-functional teams that balances business objectives and legal risk and assisting clients in implementing legal guidance
• Managing assigned legal projects to completion
• Assisting in other legal matters, such as legal research, strategic transactions and legal escalations

What You Have:

• Minimum 3-5 years legal experience in a law firm or in-house, with experience in commercial contracts, and membership to at least one state bar
• Strong drafting skills (from forms and from scratch) with a solid understanding of legal terms and contract formulation principles, including confidentiality, indemnity, termination, representations and other common contract provisions
• Excellent ability to negotiate with third parties in both non-confrontational and potentially adversarial scenarios
• Ability to communicate the implications of legal requirements to internal clients
• A strong work ethic, high standards, impeccable integrity, and well-honed analytical skills
• Excellent judgment and ability to balance risk with business objectives, able to operate independently and know when to escalate issues to other in-house counsel
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; adaptable to new situations and challenges
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to write in a clear and concise manner and effectively communicate across all levels of the organization and with third parties
• Strong interpersonal skills and are a reliable self-starter with a positive, inclusive and team-oriented attitude

The national total target cash compensation range for this position, including base salary and bonus target, is $147,157-$210,477 annually.*

*Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).

ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.

What You’ll Get from Us:

You’ll get a terrifically compelling experience in an innovative, high performing environment. You’ll get to work with engaged and passionate colleagues on challenging and impactful projects. You will have opportunities to grow in your career, and work in a place that values work/life harmony.

Oh, and you’ll get all this: Market competitive salary, stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot, 12 paid holidays, flexible PTO, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, mental health and family planning resources, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston office OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office, a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, employee meal program (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office, and knowing that you helped transform the food for work space.

ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones. Following a conditional offer of employment, ezCater may require a background check.