Legal, Legal / Regulatory

ClassDojo · Remote, United States

Today its used in 95% of US K-8 schools and by 1 in 4 American families, and reaches about 50 million kids in 180 countries. Families trust us with their kids, and were now building on that trust. On Dojo Islands, kids explore a shared world with their friends after school. Sparks is an AI tutor for every kid, and Login with Dojo will let children sign in safely anywhere online.
Our mission is to give every child on Earth an education they love. We hire for talent density, and many of our people came from Instagram, Netflix, Dropbox, Stripe, Uber and Y Combinator.
State legislatures, the FTC and the EU are writing them right now. What should a shared online world for eight-year-olds allow? How should an AI talk to a child? Who verifies a kids identity, and what happens to that data? Some company will answer these questions well, in public, and earn the trust of parents and schools for a generation. As Head of Legal youll sit on the leadership team and work directly with our co-founders. Youll own all of legal: product, privacy, commercial, corporate, employment, IP, regulatory and litigation. Youll inherit good foundations, including a small in-house team, trusted outside counsel and working commercial and privacy processes. Trust is our moat, and the right Head of Legal makes it deeper every quarter while teams ship faster. The best legal answer is usually a version of yes with sensible guardrails, reached early, before anyone has spent months building the wrong thing. Make Dojo the company parents trust most with their kids.
Decide where Dojo stands on the hardest questions in kids tech, and say it publicly before regulators decide for us: AI that talks to children, kids playing together online, and how products for kids should make money.
Make legal the reason things ship faster.
Get pulled into the room early by product, engineering and partnerships, because you make their plans better. Find the version that can ship, name the one or two real showstoppers, and tell the team what to do this week.
Write the playbooks that let district data agreements, partnerships and vendor deals close without starting from zero each time.
Build a legal team that outperforms teams five times its size.
Lead and grow a small, very good in-house team, and hold outside counsel to budget and to your standard.
Put AI into the daily work on contracts, data agreements and privacy reviews. Decide what comes in-house and what stays with specialists, so outside spend falls while quality rises.
Own M&A, financing and board matters with our CFO, and keep the company ready to do a deal or a raise on short notice.
Youve led legal at a consumer tech company of 100 to 1,000 people, where product and engineering create most of the value.
Youve owned privacy for a consumer product, ideally one for kids, across COPPA, FERPA, state student privacy laws, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR and the new rules on AI. Youre comfortable running M&A, financings and board work alongside a CFO.
Youve led talent-dense teams and managed several outside firms to budget. You know the right specialist for almost any problem and can get them on the phone today.
Youve rebuilt legal work with AI yourself, and can explain concretely how three lawyers plus specialists can match fifteen.
You move fast enough to make people slightly nervous, and you raise the bar on ambition as much as on rigor.
Bonus:
~10+ years in law, ideally including child-directed products or student data.
~ Time spent in strategy consulting, operating, finance or engineering.
~ Youve stepped into an existing legal function and made it markedly better, or led a distributed team.
~ If these problems make you want to start tomorrow, apply anyway. Very few legal jobs let you shape how a generation of kids experiences the internet. If you are on LinkedIn, you will not be able to access the hyperlinks below. Once you click apply, you will be directed to our career website (if you are not on there already) and will be able to access the hyperlinks)
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