Legal Counsel

The Company  

Cover Genius is a Series E insurtech that protects the global customers of the world’s largest digital companies including Booking Holdings, owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com, Intuit, Uber, Hopper, Ryanair, Turkish Airlines, Descartes ShipRush, Zip and SeatGeek. We’re also available at Amazon, Flipkart, eBay, Wayfair and SE Asia’s largest company, Shopee. Our partners integrate with XCover, our award-winning insurance distribution platform, to embed protection for millions of customers worldwide each year.

Our team and products have been recognized with dozens of awards including by the Financial Times which ranked Cover Genius as the #1 fastest-growing company in APAC in 2020. Our diverse team across 20+ countries and many language groups commit itself to diverse cultural programs, in particular “CG Gives” which makes social entrepreneurs out of us all and funds development initiatives in global communities.

Our People are

Bold, Authentic, Purposeful and Inspired

Our People are not

Perfect, Traditional, Complacent or Cautious

As a Legal Counsel on our Legal team Team, you will support the company’s growing business in a generalist role, and provide additional support as we scale. As a team member of an innovative insurance intermediary involved in transactions across the globe, the Legal Counsel will work cross-functionally with the sales, partner services, insurance, marketing, compliance, and product teams to apply their expertise and practical advice.

To drive success in this role, you will have keen legal sense and a proficiency in contracting and negotiations, honed through at least two years in the legal field post-graduation from law school. The best candidates for this role will be a licensed attorney in the State of California.  Regular collaboration with sales, insurance and operations teams will be key in ensuring optimal performance is achieved.

This is a hybrid role, which requires in-office attendance Monday, Tuesday and Friday at our California offices in San Francisco. Cover Genius is a global company, and as such this role requires occasional flexibility for international calls outside of traditional business hours.

Key Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of complex commercial agreements, including non disclosure agreements, distribution agreements, agency agreements, and vendor agreements that support and enable our global business operations.
• Provide advice and counsel to the business on transactional legal matters and proposed corporate actions and projects.
• Ability to think strategically and creatively, to identify and resolve legal issuesTriage novel requests and appropriately escalate to other Senior Corporate Counsels or the VP of Legal.
• Manage company litigation. 
• Support team projects and contribute to other duties as required to meet business needs.

Skills and Experience

• JD from an accredited law school.
• 2+ years of post JD experience either at a law firm or in-house (or combination thereof).
• Member of the California bar.

Proficiencies and Attributes

• A people person with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to work in a fast paced workplace/company, complying with short internal SLAs.
• Able to multitask and prioritize workA demonstrated ability to drive execution in a team environment, integrating legal advice and business knowledge while providing balanced advice regarding risks and benefits.
• A transactional background (corporate, commercial arrangements) with extensive experience drafting and negotiating preferred.
• A willingness to expand your practice and explore new areas of the law, including corporate law, privacy law, insurance law and employment law.

Why Cover Genius?  

Cover Genius not only cares about being the best in our industry, we care about our team. We’re a business that understands life can be fluid and so we flex to ensure we provide the environment to suit that. What does that mean?  

• Flexible PTO. Taking time out is important for our teams to enjoy life and stay fresh.

• Employee Stock Options - we want our people to share in our success, we reward them with ownership for their contribution in creating a world-class company.

• Work with like-minded people who are passionate about both the work we're doing and giving back. Our CG Gives programs enables us to all become philanthropists through our peer recognition and rewards system.

• Social Initiatives - pictures speak a thousand words!

Sound interesting? If you think you have the best composition of the above, send us your resume and let's chat!

* Cover Genius promotes diversity and inclusivity. We don't tolerate discrimination, demeaning treatment of anyone, or harassment due to race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or any other legally protected status.

*US Candidates: The cash compensation range for this role is between $125,000 and $175,000 depending on experience.