About Calm
Calm is on a mission to support everyone on every step of their mental health journey. With the #1 app for sleep, meditation and relaxation as well as a growing library of digital, evidence-based mental health programs, Calm offers trusted support for individuals and organizations alike. Our flagship consumer app provides personalized content and activities – featuring a range of experts and beloved celebrity voices – to help users manage stress, improve sleep and live mindfully. Our workplace and healthcare solutions offer a consumer-friendly approach to clinical content and HIPAA-compliant resources in order to drive positive health and business outcomes. Named a TIME100 Most Influential Company, Calm supports more than 150 million people and 3,500 organizations across seven languages and 190 countries.
What We Do
The Legal team provides legal counsel, manages compliance, mitigates risks, and handles contracts, disputes, and regulatory matters to support the organization's operations and goals. Legal Operations sits within Calm's Legal Team, providing cross-functional support to stakeholders across the business and maintaining primary responsibility for functional programs, legal project management, and operational excellence. Our mission is to act as enablers and serve as strategic thinking collaborators with the business. We play an active role in shaping and implementing corporate strategy within the various business units. Collaborating seamlessly with teams in Go-To-Market, Engineering, Accounting, Content, and Product, we engage closely to assess critical issues, solve challenges, and achieve outcomes that optimize Calm's growth.
We are hiring remote workers for this role in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City, or Minneapolis areas. At this time, only candidates in these locations will be considered.
We are seeking a highly qualified, detail-oriented, and proactive attorney to join our Legal team. In this role, you will be responsible for supporting our business’ legal needs globally, with a focus on transactional (drafting and negotiation) work. You will play a key role in providing legal perspective, strategic advice, and sound judgment on a wide range of legal and business matters.
The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, is a dedicated team player with excellent business partnering skills, and brings a positive, solution-oriented attitude with a strong desire to learn and grow.
What You’ll Do
- Help manage transactions for Sales and Business Development teams, including commercial deals and strategic partnerships, including review, negotiation and drafting agreements (e.g. sales, BD, vendor, and NDAs) and direct support of complex global deals requiring innovative, deep contracting skills;
- Strategize with company executives prior to client negotiations;
- Represent company's interests and interface directly with client counsel and negotiating teams;
- Structure client transactions to be most advantageous from a legal and business perspective;
- Counsel, advise, and consult company executives based on accurate interpretation of contract documents and the legal and risk management issues in a business opportunity;
- Stay abreast of legal developments affecting the company, its clients, and industries and synthesize the information to incorporate it into company's transactional practices; and
- Develop internal guidelines, toolkits, and packaged knowledge on various legal and business issues
Who You Are
- 4+ years of relevant legal experience, blend of in-house or agency experience
- Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and take initiative on new opportunities
- A highly motivated self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced environment
- Talent for thinking outside of the box in confronting new issues and pursuing novel approaches to old problems
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively interact with cross-functional teams
- Ability to explain legal concepts to non-legal stakeholders in a clear and concise manner
- Excellent organizational skills and attention to the right details
- High energy, team-oriented and enjoys helping others
- A can-do attitude and ability to efficiently and effectively manage competing projects and priorities, where no job is too big or too small
- Enjoys tackling challenging projects in sometimes new subject area
Nice to Haves
- Familiarity with product and regulatory issues
- Healthcare and international experience
- Experience in Tech/Saas industryExperience partnering with Sales & Business development teams
Minimum Requirements
- Juris Doctor (JD) degree from a nationally recognized law school
- Must be a member in good standing of a U.S. bar
Calm uses a geographic pay model that determines salaries based on the location where an employee lives. For this position, the base pay ranges across Calm’s pay tiers is as follows:
$160,000 - $260,000
The base pay range represents the low and high end of Calm’s salary range for this position. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. Exact salary will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, experience and other qualifications.
Calm uses employee zip code to determine which pay range applies.
This role is also eligible for equity + comprehensive benefits + 401k + flexible time off.
Please note that Calm may leverage artificial intelligence technology in the application review process.
Calm is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities, including disabled veterans. If you require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application or interview process, please contact Calm’s Recruiting team at [email protected]. All accommodation requests will be handled confidentially and assessed on a case-by-case basis.
We believe that mental health is health, and every person should be considered in the discussion. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity workplace, committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.
Calm is deeply committed to diversity, equity and inclusion. We strive to create a mindful and respectful environment where everyone can bring their authentic self to work, and experience a culture that is free of harassment, racism, and discrimination.
Employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of a background check. Roles which require access to certain types of information may also require the successful completion of a drug screening.
FOR US BASED POSITIONS: Calm participates in e-verify. E-verify provides the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
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What the Team is Saying
What We Do
Calm is the leading mental health brand, on a mission to support everyone on every step of their mental health journey. With the #1 app for sleep, meditation and relaxation, Calm’s transformational mindfulness content supports users across seven languages in more than 190 countries.
Why Work With Us
We're a passionate team that ensures every employee has the opportunity to grow. We hire from and live in a lot of different places but love the opportunity to collaborate in person. We are driven by the understanding that our work can make a meaningful impact in the lives of millions of people.
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Calm Offices
Hybrid Workspace
Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Our main operating model at Calm is remote-first; however, we also love the opportunity to get together in person! We’ve had many company retreats over the years and love opportunities to encourage in-person collaboration.
