At Olo we develop an online food ordering platform used by many of the country’s largest restaurant chains, reaching millions of consumers. Chances are if you’ve ordered directly from a restaurant brand’s app or website, we’ve made that happen.
We are looking for a business-focused attorney to join the Olo Legal Team and support Olo’s Sales, Customer, and Product teams. Reporting to the VP, Deputy General Counsel, as Senior Counsel you will oversee a variety of commercial agreement negotiations and advise on product development in collaboration with teams across Olo. Our colleagues look to us to assess risk and provide clear legal guidance while meeting Olo’s business objectives, so we are looking for an attorney who is passionate about analyzing real-world issues and is able to identify creative and practical solutions. As part of a small legal team at a growing company, you will have the opportunity to broaden your skill set while serving in a crucial, high visibility role at Olo.
You can work remotely from anywhere in the U.S. or at Olo’s headquarters in NYC.
What You’ll Do
- Review, draft, and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements, including master services agreements, vendor service agreements, NDAs, service provider agreements, and terms of use.
- Provide guidance to Product and Engineering teams on issues related to new and existing products and features throughout the entire product development lifecycle.
- Identify legal issues in product development plans and customer agreements, and work with the appropriate teams to devise solutions and minimize risk.
- Help manage existing contract expirations, renewals, non-renewals, extensions, and amendments.
- Engage strategically in risk assessment/mitigation, develop new approaches to legal issues to support our business goals, and communicate sound, understandable legal and business recommendations to the various internal stakeholders you support.
- Work closely with the teams charged with generating business and proactively establish relationships across other departments including Marketing, Finance, Product, Security, and Engineering.
- Help draft and update contract templates.
- Lead and participate in projects to increase the efficiency of commercial legal support and help scale the legal function.
- Help create legal policy and process across the organization as it matures and grows.
- Respond to inquiries on contract interpretation and compliance.
- Provide practical, creative, and strategic legal advice and counsel on a broad range of legal topics.
What We’ll Expect From You
- An ownership mentality.
- A good sense of humor and a team-oriented approach (our legal culture is top notch).
- Preferably a quick wit and a deep understanding of pop culture references.
There’s also legal stuff:
- JD degree with 4-5 years of relevant legal experience.
- Membership in good standing in at least one state bar.
- Experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial agreements.
- Experience drafting procurement and strategic partnership deals.
- Experience assessing legal risk while providing practical advice.
- Comfort taking ownership of projects and working on cutting-edge legal issues.
- Seriously, the sense of humor and pop culture references are important.
About Olo
Olo is the engine of hospitality powering the restaurant industry’s digital transformation. As a leading open SaaS platform, we enable over 600 restaurant brands to jointly reach 85 million connected guests across approximately 78,000 locations. More than two million orders per day run on Olo’s platform, allowing brands to maximize the convergence of digital and brick-and-mortar operations while raising the bar on hospitality. The result: brands do more with less and make every guest feel like a regular. With integrations to over 300 technology partners, our customers can build digital experiences with the largest and most flexible restaurant commerce ecosystem on the market. You have likely used Olo and not even known it! Learn more at
olo.com.
We’re remote-friendly. Since 2015, we have been evolving our culture to continue to support a more distributed workforce and now over 75% of our team works remotely across the U.S. If you’re in the New York City area, you can choose to work remotely or from Olo’s headquarters, located in Tribeca.
We offer great benefits, such as 20 days of paid time off, 10 separate sick days, 11 holidays plus year-end closure, health, dental, and vision coverage for yourself and your family, a 401k match, remote-office stipend, company equity, a generous parental leave plan, volunteer time off, gift matching policy, and more!
Our best estimate of the compensation range for this opportunity is $153,762-$220,449 annually, depending on the experience you bring and your location. We look forward to discussing your salary expectations and our full total rewards offerings throughout the interview process.
We encourage you to apply!
We value diversity. At Olo, we know a diverse and inclusive team makes our workplace better. Don’t meet every single qualification in the job description? Market data shows that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace that is free from discrimination and harassment; this allows us to make better decisions and better serve the communities we’re a part of. So if you’re excited about this role but your previous experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
All applicants receive consideration for employment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
