Assistant General Counsel

triplelift; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

TripleLift, a leading digital advertising platform, seeks a Commercial Counsel to partner with senior leadership on complex contracts, cross-border negotiations and strategic initiatives. The role emphasizes practical legal advice, risk balancing, and strong business support in a fast-growing environment.

You will counsel product, sales and partnerships teams, draft and negotiate core technology and commercial agreements, ensure privacy and regulatory compliance (GDPR/CCPA), and mentor junior

Qualifications

• Licensed in New York with superior academic credentials.
• 6+ years of commercial law experience at a top-tier firm or in-house.
• Experience in adtech and strong client service.
• Experience with global privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA).
• Ability to understand technology and the interplay between legal risk, policy and strategy.

Responsibilities

• Provide practical legal advice to senior executives balancing business objectives with risk.
• Draft, review, and negotiate technology and commercial agreements.
• Lead cross-border commercial negotiations with major digital advertising partners.
• Support product, technology and commercial teams on new products and features.
• Ensure compliance with privacy, IP, gaming and political advertising regulations.

Skills

Adtech experience

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Client relationship management

Regulatory compliance knowledge

Legal analysis

Education

Juris Doctor (JD) or equivalent

Job description

About TripleLift

We're TripleLift, an advertising platform on a mission to elevate digital advertising through beautiful creative, quality publishers, actionable data and smart targeting. Through over 1 trillion monthly ad transactions, we help publishers and platforms monetize their businesses. Our technology is where the world's leading brands find audiences across online video, connected television, display and native ads. Brand and enterprise customers choose us because of our innovative solutions, premium formats, and supportive experts dedicated to maximizing their performance.

As part of the Vista Equity Partners portfolio, we are NMSDC certified, qualify for diverse spending goals and are committed to economic inclusion. Find out how TripleLift raises up the programmatic ecosystem at triplelift.com .

Overview

TripleLift's Legal team supports our rapidly evolving and growing global advertising business. Our mandate is to provide strategic and practical legal advice to all functions throughout the organization - and our day to day work is diverse, ranging from drafting and negotiating contracts to evaluating product offerings to monitoring and addressing legislative and regulatory developments that affect the future of the internet. We are energized by the challenges of serving a dynamic, fast-growing company that's shaping the future of online advertising in a complex ecosystem - and we're looking for a new commercial counsel to join the team and assist our continued growth.

Responsibilities

• Interact and collaborate with senior executives across TripleLift's diverse business, providing practical and actionable legal advice that appropriately balances business objectives with risk.
• Supervise other attorneys on go-to-market tasks and projects in a way that is collaborative, inclusive, and supportive. Collaborate with other senior members of the legal team.
• Review, negotiate and draft a variety of technology and commercial agreements, including terms governing access to our core advertising services, platform vendor and data provider agreements, SAAS, privacy and other technology agreements.
• Lead complex, cross-border, commercial negotiations with strategic partners and some of the biggest names in digital advertising.
• Support product, technology and commercial teams in evaluating, protecting and commercializing new products and features.
• Ensure compliance and draft contracts and policies to address a variety of industry standards, laws and regulations impacting online advertising, including intellectual property, gaming, privacy and political advertising.
• Help the legal team develop, implement and support the continuous improvement of standard form agreements, legal processes, policies and trainings.
• Exercise strong judgment to advise TripleLift and contribute to the overall success of the business.
• Identify, research, analyze, and advise teams on a wide range of relevant legal topics, issues, and risk (e.g., licensing, intellectual property, commercial, data security, and privacy law).
• Thrive in a collaborative, supportive environment and participate in helping to lead a diverse and highly capable legal team.

Education & Requirements

• Licensed to practice in New York with superior academic credentials.
• 6+ years of commercial experience at a top-tier law firm or in-house legal department.
• Prior experience in adtech, with strong client service skills.
• Experience with global privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, etc.).
• Ability to understand technology and the interplay between legal risk, policy and strategy.
• Excell