**Who this is for** This role is for a seasoned commercial attorney looking to join a high-growth, remote-first technology company, where you will act as a key
Work type: remote
Location: Remote (United States)
Salary: $100,000/yr
Type: Full-time
**Who this is for** This role is for a seasoned commercial attorney looking to join a high-growth, remote-first technology company, where you will act as a key strategic partner to the business and help scale the legal function. **Key highlights** You will lead high-stakes contract negotiations, spearhead the implementation of AI-driven legal workflows, and provide decisive guidance on product and regulatory risks to help drive global e-commerce infrastructure. **You might be a good fit if you...** - Have significant in-house experience at a SaaS company managing complex commercial and data agreements. - Are comfortable navigating marketing, intellectual property, or privacy law landscapes. - Possess hands-on experience utilizing AI tools to automate and scale legal operations and contract review. - Excel at translating complex legal risks into pragmatic, business-oriented solutions for cross-functional stakeholders.
About Shippo
At Shippo, our vision is bold and clear: we are the shipping layer of the internet. Our mission is to make every merchant successful through excellent shipping, delivering world-class logistics technology and infrastructure. We’re building the backbone of global e-commerce — connecting merchants to carriers worldwide through a single API and intuitive dashboard.
As a remote-first and globally distributed team, we believe flexibility fuels trust, autonomy, and performance. Our diverse perspectives — across continents, cultures, and time zones — drive our innovation and enable us to build solutions used by businesses everywhere. We invest in modern, scalable technology so our teams can build, ship, and iterate with confidence.
Your impact starts here: every person at Shippo plays a direct role in shaping the infrastructure that powers global commerce and makes shipping simpler for businesses around the world.
How we will deliver success together:
As a strategic business partner and a skilled commercial, marketing, and product attorney, you will join Shippo’s small but highly impactful Legal Team and cover a wide range of responsibilities. You will help the business close meaningful partnership and commercial deals, play a key role in advising on risk management, and leverage AI to modernize legal workflows. You’ll also have the opportunity to contribute to building and scaling the legal function, as well as supporting the company’s overall growth.
In this role, you will report to the General Counsel and collaborate closely with senior leadership and teams across the organization.
We’re looking for someone who has experience negotiating business-critical agreements and excels at problem-solving—someone who can creatively navigate obstacles and find practical solutions. You have a strong track record of providing business-oriented legal advice and take a pragmatic approach to assessing risk. You thrive in fast-paced environments, can manage multiple priorities simultaneously, and value being a collaborative team player. Most importantly, you understand that building strong, trust-based relationships is at the core of effective legal partnership.
Shipping & handling responsibilities
We believe compensation is a custom experience and are commited to fair and equitable compensation practices. The standard base pay range for this role is min is $185k to a max $250k annual salary. Since we are focused on hiring Shippos Everywhere, we have 2 US pay ranges, a standard compensation range for the majority of the US and a standard +1 compensation range for those who live in areas where the cost of labor is higher, such as NYC and California.
The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: financial budgets, work experience, training, transferable skills, business needs, and market value. The base pay salary ranges are subject to change and may be modified in the future. Total compensation for this role will include, equity, medical, dental, vision and other benefits noted in our Shippos “package” section.
Sailthrough the process:
Here at Shippo, we celebrate inclusivity and are committed to creating equal access to opportunities for people from all backgrounds, perspectives and geographies. These values define who we are and everything we do. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply. If you need assistance, or a reasonable accommodation during the application and recruiting process, please contact us at [accommodations@shippo.com](mailto:accommodations@shippo.com)
Shippos in the wild:
Our people, much like the packages we help ship, are all over the world. This means, through our remote-first program, “Shippos Everywhere”, our roles can be based anywhere in the US with the exception of Delaware, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii, New Mexico and West Virginia and many roles can be based internationally.
For locations outside of the US and Ireland, the employment contracts are powered by Rippling.com.