Head of Legal, SaaS — Enterprise Contracts & Privacy

Dispatch; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Dispatch seeks a hands-on Head of Legal to own day-to-day legal functions, including enterprise contracts, privacy, and data-security matters for a fast-growing B2B SaaS company.

The role requires seasoned experience with MSAs, DPAs, and multi-year enterprise agreements, plus the ability to build templates and playbooks while coordinating with Sales, Product, Security, and Finance. Reports to the COO and starts as an individual contributor with growth potential.

Qualifications

• JD from a top law school.
• Active membership in good standing with the bar of at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 5–15 years of legal experience.
• At least 3 years of in-house experience with commercial contracting ownership.
• Experience negotiating MSAs, order forms, and multi-year enterprise agreements for a B2B SaaS company.
• Experience negotiating DPAs and security addenda, including breach notification, data residency, subprocessors, retention/deletion, AI usage.

Responsibilities

• Own the commercial contracting function including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating MSAs, order forms, amendments, SLAs, and enterprise agreements.
• Lead negotiations with enterprise customers and their legal, procurement, privacy, and security teams.
• Develop practical positions on indemnification, liability limits, warranties, insurance, IP, termination rights and SLAs.
• Partner with Sales and leadership to balance revenue, customer needs, and risk.
• Create contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval thresholds, and scalable processes.
• Implement systems to improve contract intake, negotiation, approval, execution, and management.
• Draft and negotiate data processing agreements and privacy terms.
• Advise on breach notification, data residency, subprocessors, data retention, AI restrictions.
• Review third-party data sharing arrangements and data flows with Product/Engineering/Security.
• Oversee outside counsel for specialized matters as needed.

Skills

Bar admission (US)

In-house experience

Technology transactions

MSA/contract negotiations

Contract drafting & templates

Data privacy & security

Risk assessment & governance

Ability to build process

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Tools

Contract lifecycle management (CLM) software

Job description

Dispatch seeks a hands-on Head of Legal to own day-to-day legal functions, including enterprise contracts, privacy, and data-security matters for a fast-growing B2B SaaS company.

The role requires seasoned experience with MSAs, DPAs, and multi-year enterprise agreements, plus the ability to build templates and playbooks while coordinating with Sales, Product, Security, and Finance. Reports to the COO and starts as an individual contributor with growth potential.