Corporate Counsel

Button; New York (NY); On-site; USD 205,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) 3% match

Unlimited PTO

Health, vision, dental insurance

Job summary

Button seeks an experienced Corporate Counsel to own the legal function, focusing on commercial contracting, privacy, governance, and everyday legal support for speed and scale across teams.

You will build templates and playbooks, oversee outside counsel, and partner with product, engineering, and marketing to protect the business while enabling growth.

Qualifications

• JD and active bar admission in NY or eligibility to register as in-house counsel in NY.
• 5–7 years of legal practice, including at least two years in-house.
• Experience drafting and negotiating commercial technology agreements (SaaS, data, advertising).
• Working knowledge of US state privacy law and GDPR in vendor contexts.

Responsibilities

• Draft, negotiate, and close commercial agreements—MSAs, DPAs, vendor papers.
• Develop and revise standard terms, create playbooks, and set legal strategy.
• Collaborate with commercial and finance during negotiations, keeping pace with business.
• Own privacy posture across domestic and international law, including DPAs.
• Partner on employment matters with People Operations and support transactions.

Skills

Drafting contracts

In-house counsel

Negotiation

Privacy compliance

Risk assessment

Education

JD (Juris Doctor)

New York Bar admission

Job description

Button is building the future of the commerce-powered internet — enabling performance marketing and monetization at scale across marketplaces, brands, and creators. We create products that unlock new value at the intersection of discovery, engagement, and conversion. Our mission is to empower the companies shaping the creator and affiliate economy — fueling mobile growth through innovation and new paths to monetization. Our vision is an internet where all marketing is performance-based, everyone wins, and our innovation within the creator and affiliate ecosystem lays the foundation for a new era of growth.

Role Overview

This role is solely responsible for the legal function at Button — with an emphasis on commercial contracting, privacy and data protection, corporate governance, and the day-to-day legal advice that every team in the company depends on to move quickly.

As a Corporate Counsel, You Will Own

The commercial contract lifecycle, end to end

• You will draft, negotiate, and close commercial agreements — MSAs, DPAs, vendor and procurement paper.
• You will develop and revise standard terms, create playbooks, and set our legal strategy..
• You will work directly with the commercial and finance teams during negotiations, keeping pace with the speed of the business.

Privacy, data protection, and platform compliance

• You will own Button's privacy posture across domestic and international law, including data processing agreements.
• You will help run vendor and partner diligence on data handling, and translate legal and platform requirements into something the product and commercial teams can operationalize.

Other Corporate Matters

• You will partner with People Operations on employment matters
• You will support diligence on financing or corporate transactions as they arise.
• You will partner with Button’s product, engineering, and marketing teams to secure patents and trademarks to support the business.

The system that lets the business move without you

• You will build the templates, fallback positions, and negotiation playbooks that let the commercial team self-serve on standard paper.
• You will help set approval thresholds and governance standards so the decisions that need a lawyer reach one and the rest do not.
• You will stand up a contract repository that answers questions about what we have signed without anyone having to ask you.

This Role Is For Someone Who

• Gives a clear answer under time pressure and is willing to own it.
• Treats a slow contract cycle as their problem to fix, not the business's problem to tolerate.
• Has genuine hands-on drafting experience, having personally negotiated agreements rather than supervised someone who did.
• Knows the difference between risk worth flagging and risk worth blocking, and does not flag everything to be safe.
• Builds their own templates, processes, and playbooks instead of waiting to inherit a system.
• Is comfortable saying they do not know and calling outside counsel, rather than guessing.
• Wants to truly own a company’s legal function, not just a piece of the pie.

We Look For Teammates Who Have

• A JD and active bar admission in New York, or admission in another US jurisdiction with eligibility to register as in-house counsel in New York.
• 5–7 years in practice, including at least two years in-house.
• Personally drafted and negotiated commercial technology agreements — SaaS, data, advertising, partnership, or similar — as the responsible lawyer rather than as support to one.
• Working knowledge of US state privacy law and GDPR as applied to a company that processes data on behalf of partners.
• Managed outside counsel on at least one substantive workstream, including scope and budget.
• Advised commercial and go-to-market teams directly, at the pace those teams operate.
• Built or materially rebuilt a contracting process — templates, playbooks, approval thresholds — rather than only working within one.
• Operated effectively in a lean, rapidly changing, or otherwise unstructured environment.

Bonus Experience

• You have been the first or sole in-house counsel at a company under 200 people.
• You have worked in adtech, martech, affiliate or performance marketing, payments, or marketplaces.
• You have advised on creator, talent, or influencer agreements, including content rights and handle access.
• You have handled employment matters beyond the basics.
• You trained at a firm with a substantive technology or commercial transactions practice.

Compensation & Benefits

Button's total compensation package includes a base salary competitive with what is offered by similar companies in major US markets. The expected base salary range for this role is $205,000 - $250,000 (compensation is based on a number of factors, including skills and experience relative to the job description listed above). In addition, Button provides employees with a 401(k) plan and automatically contributes 3% of an employee's salary annually. We also want our employees to be well-rested and live balanced lives–Buttonians enjoy unlimited time off (including birthdays off) and Summer and Winter Breaks which allow the entire company to take a breath and recharge, as well as an employee assistance program. For many of the health, vision, and dental insurance plans offered by Button, the company covers 100% of the premiums for employees and 80% for dependents. Button offers all employees and their dependents complimentary memberships to One Medical as well as a monthly stipend for mobile phone/internet and an annual lifestyle stipend. Button also offers employees in select markets "All Access" memberships to WeWork as well as regular "coworking days" and social events. Most of all, Button offers our employees the opportunity to live our company values–Learn & Grow, Experiment, Adapt, and Deliver–and to be a part of an incredible team of humans working together to build a better internet, fueled by commerce.

Button is committed to being a welcoming and inclusive workplace for everyone, and we are intentional about making sure people feel respected, supported and connected at work—regardless of who you are or where you come from. We value and celebrate our differences and we believe being open about who we are allows us to do the best work of our lives.

Button is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual preference, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law, rule, or regulation.