Corporate Counsel

Apply; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 158,000 - 238,000; Full time

Job summary

Acquisition.com seeks a Corporate Counsel to be its day-to-day legal resource, handling commercial contracts, privacy, and operations while supporting the General Counsel. The role requires hands-on, high-volume work, fast-turnaround decisions, and cross-functional collaboration with sales, marketing, and technology teams.

The position emphasizes AI-driven workflows and template improvements, with escalation to GC for complex matters. Remote, USA, with occasional travel to Las Vegas.

Qualifications

• J.D. and active bar membership in good standing.
• 3+ years of relevant experience, including in-house at a high-growth company.
• Hands-on experience with FTC Act Section 5 and advertising compliance; GDPR, CCPA, and TCPA preferred.
• Experience running legal operations: intake workflows, contract lifecycle management, matter tracking, or legal technology.
• Experience directing paralegal or legal operations staff.
• Background supporting advisory, professional services, events, or tech businesses; investment exposure a plus.
• Uses AI and automation first, with human review when needed.
• Explains legal issues clearly to non-lawyers and builds trust across sales, operations, marketing, and vendor-facing teams.

Responsibilities

• Drafts, reviews, and negotiates agreements across the business, including vendor contracts, MSAs, NDAs, SOWs, sponsorship and partnership agreements, and event and venue contracts.
• Carries a mixed docket of dozens of open matters across entities and business units, and re-prioritizes constantly without dropping anything.
• Owns day-to-day privacy, data protection, and information security questions, escalating regulatory strategy to the General Counsel.
• Supports the General Counsel on investment documents, diligence, and litigation matters (drafting, discovery, and outside counsel coordination).
• Reviews marketing, advertising, and sales materials for FTC Act Section 5 compliance.
• Advises sales on outbound calling and texting compliance, including the TCPA and state telemarketing rules.
• Works with marketing, sales, and technology to keep improving the compliance program.
• Directs the paralegal and legal operations specialist, including workload, day-to-day priorities, and development.
• Owns intake quality: scopes unclear requests up front and reframes the ask before work starts.
• Holds the same-day acknowledgment standard. Every request gets a response, an owner, and a realistic timeline.
• Maintains and improves templates, playbooks, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Serves as the standing legal contact for internal teams, so they get fast answers without going through the general counsel.
• Flags risk and negotiation leverage to procurement during vendor discussions.
• Reviews people operations forms, policies, and processes, with the general counsel as primary on ELT-sensitive matters.
• Finds problems, owns them, and drives them to resolution.
• You act as a business partner, not a checkpoint, and you get to yes in ways that make sense for the business.
• You say no rarely enough that it carries weight; when you do, you offer a workable alternative.
• You separate material risk from noise, decide quickly with imperfect information, and speed is an advantage.
• You know when a matter belongs with the general counsel and escalate without hesitation.
• Excellence is the baseline.

Skills

J.D. & Bar

In-house experience

FTC Act Section 5

GDPR & CCPA

TCPA compliance

Legal operations

Paralegal management

AI & automation

Cross-functional communication

Education

J.D. / Law degree

Job description

Role

The Corporate Counsel is Acquisition.com's day-to-day, first-line legal resource and the General Counsel's primary force multiplier. The advisory practice, live workshops and events, sales, marketing, operations, and the technology products that support them all bring their legal questions here first. This person answers most matters on their own, directs the paralegal and legal operations specialist to keep intake and contracts moving, and escalates to the General Counsel immediately when a matter calls for it.

This is a hands-on, high-volume role. Requests get picked up when they arrive, not queued. Nobody has to ask twice. The work stays excellent at that pace.

Responsibilities

Commercial & Corporate

• Drafts, reviews, and negotiates agreements across the business, including vendor contracts, MSAs, NDAs, SOWs, sponsorship and partnership agreements, and event and venue contracts.

• Carries a mixed docket of dozens of open matters across entities and business units, and re-prioritizes constantly without dropping anything.

• Owns day-to-day privacy, data protection, and information security questions, including consent practices and vendor data terms. Escalates regulatory strategy to the General Counsel.

• Supports the General Counsel on investment documents, diligence, and litigation matters (drafting, discovery, and outside counsel coordination) as needed.

Marketing & Sales Compliance

• Reviews marketing, advertising, and sales materials for FTC Act Section 5 compliance, including testimonials, earnings claims, and required disclosures.

• Advises sales on outbound calling and texting compliance, including the TCPA and state telemarketing rules.

• Works with marketing, sales, and technology to keep improving the compliance program.

Legal Operations

• Directs the paralegal and legal operations specialist, including workload, day-to-day priorities, and development.

• Owns intake quality: scopes unclear requests up front and reframes the ask before work starts, not after.

• Holds the same-day acknowledgment standard. Every request gets a response, an owner, and a realistic timeline, even when the full answer takes longer.

• Maintains and improves templates, playbooks, and AI-assisted workflows so turnaround time keeps falling as volume grows.

Cross-Functional Partnership

• Serves as the standing legal contact for internal teams, so they get fast answers without going through the general counsel.

• Flags risk and negotiation leverage to procurement and business owners during vendor and partner discussions.

• Reviews people operations forms, policies, and processes, with the general counsel as primary on anything ELT-sensitive.

• Finds problems, owns them, and drives them to resolution.

Results

• Intake runs on a defined process with clear SLAs. The business knows where to go and what to expect. Deadlines are met, and when a timeline has to move, the business hears about it early and knows why.

• The general counsel is freed from day-to-day contract and tactical work to focus on litigation, regulatory strategy, and board-level matters.

• Internal teams treat this role as their first call for legal questions, not a bottleneck.

• Business leaders describe legal as fast, commercially practical, and worth looping in early. Legal is part of the conversation before signature, not after it.

• The paralegal and legal operations specialist are clearly directed, growing, and working as one unit.

Requirements

• J.D. and active bar membership in good standing.

• 3+ years of relevant experience, including in-house at a high-growth company, covering commercial contracts, compliance, corporate governance, and general business advising.

• Hands-on experience with FTC Act Section 5 and advertising compliance. Experience with GDPR, CCPA, and the TCPA strongly preferred.

• Experience running and improving legal operations: intake workflows, contract lifecycle management, matter tracking, or legal technology.

• Experience directing paralegal or legal operations staff.

• Background supporting advisory, professional services, events, or tech businesses preferred. Investment or fund exposure is a plus.

• Uses AI and automation first, while knowing where human review is required.

• Explains legal issues clearly to non-lawyers and builds trust across sales, operations, marketing, and vendor-facing teams.

How You Operate

• You act as a business partner, not a checkpoint, and you get to yes in ways that make sense for the business.

• You say no rarely enough that it carries weight. When you do, you hold the position under pressure and offer a workable alternative, so the business leaves with a path forward rather than a blocker.

• You separate material risk from noise, decide quickly with imperfect information, and treat speed as an advantage rather than a trade‑off against quality.

• You know exactly when a matter belongs with the general counsel, and you escalates it without hesitation.

• Excellence is the baseline, not the goal.

Location

• Remote, USA

• Some light travel to Las Vegas may be required

Compensation

• $158,000 - $238,000 base salary + 10% bonus

• The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills, and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below).

Benefits:

We offer a comprehensive, evolving benefits package designed to support your health, family, and wellbeing. Some key offerings:

• Flexible Unlimited Paid Time Off and Company-wide Holidays

• Employer sponsored Medical, Dental, & Vision plans

  • $1,950 annual Employer HSA contribution

  • FSA options including dependent care

  • Employee assistance program and mental health resources

• Employer match program for 401(k), eligible for both Traditional and Roth accounts

• $1,200 annual wellness reimbursement through JOON that supports health, family care, pet care, fitness, and more!

• For local or visiting team members, enjoy access to a state of the art gym at our HQ in Las Vegas

* Benefits eligibility applies only to full-time exempt roles.

ACQ Core Values:

Our core values are the heart and soul of this incredible company. The right person for this role will appreciate each of these values, personally subscribe to them, and understand why each is critical to having a great business.

Competitive Greatness

Be at your best when your best is needed. Enjoyment of a hard challenge. Those who have the drive to constantly improve, the superior intellect and long term commitment to see incremental improvements become compounding returns.

Sincere Candor

Have the self awareness to accurately perceive and communicate hard truths that improve others and self, the courage to do so, and the humility to accept them, even when it hurts. Nothing great can be built without feedback: internally or externally.

Unimpeachable Character

Be the type of person with whom people are always proud to associate, personally and professionally. We look for true alignment of thoughts, words, and actions towards a goal worth pursuing.