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ClassDojo
ClassDojo
51 – 200 Employees
ConsultingEducationMarketing
ClassDojo is an education technology company building communication and engagement tools for classrooms and school communities. Its platform helps teachers connect with families, share classroom updates, support students’ social-emotional learning, and present learning progress through student portfolios. With multilingual communication and an emphasis on privacy and security, ClassDojo serves teachers, students, and parents seeking stronger collaboration around learning.
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Head of Legal

Lead legal strategy across privacy, product, commercial, and regulatory matters for ClassDojo’s child-focused education technology. Advise the founders and build a high-performing legal function.

USUnited StatesCACaliforniaCTConnecticutNJNew JerseyNYNew YorkWAWashington
$220,000 – $325,000 / year
RemoteFull-timeLeadEnglish RequiredGeneral Counsel

Description

  • Join the leadership team and advise ClassDojo’s co-founders.
  • Oversee legal work across product, privacy, commercial, corporate, employment, intellectual property, regulatory, and litigation matters.
  • Set the company’s approach to emerging issues in children’s technology, AI, online child safety, identity verification, and data use.
  • Identify and secure seals and certifications valued by parents and school districts.
  • Position privacy as a point of distinction for school districts.
  • Respond to regulatory inquiries and safeguard the product and company’s reputation.
  • Work early with product, engineering, and partnerships teams to shape launch-ready plans with appropriate safeguards.
  • Resolve standard contracts within hours and product questions within two days.
  • Develop playbooks for district data agreements, partnerships, and vendor contracts.
  • Build and lead the in-house legal team, while overseeing outside counsel.
  • Use AI in contract, data-agreement, and privacy-review processes.
  • Determine which matters the team should handle internally and which require specialists, while lowering external legal costs.
  • Lead M&A, financing, and board matters in partnership with the CFO.
  • Maintain readiness for transactions or fundraising on short notice.

Requirements

  • Have led legal at a consumer technology company with 100 to 1,000 employees.
  • Have owned privacy for a consumer product, ideally one designed for children, covering COPPA, FERPA, state student privacy laws, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and AI regulations.
  • Be comfortable managing M&A, financing, and board matters alongside a CFO.
  • Have led high-caliber teams and managed multiple outside law firms within budget.
  • Be able to identify and engage the right legal specialists.
  • Have redesigned legal work using AI and be able to explain how a small team can deliver the capacity of a much larger one.
  • Be able to reduce complex issues to key decisions and write clearly and concisely.
  • Be able to advocate for a position constructively, adapt as facts change, and make trust-based decisions.
  • Bring a fast-paced, ambitious approach and maintain rigorous standards.
  • 10 or more years in law is a bonus.
  • Experience with child-directed products or student data is a bonus.
  • A background in strategy consulting, operations, finance, or engineering is a bonus.
  • Experience improving an established legal function or leading a distributed team is a bonus.
  • The ability to explain Dojo’s story to regulators, reporters, or partners is a bonus.

Benefits

  • Work for a distributed company that hires across locations, with substantial working-hour overlap with an Americas time zone.
  • Equal employment opportunity.
  • Accommodations for disabilities and special needs.
  • Geographic annual salary ranges: $260,000–$325,000 in California, Washington, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut; $220,000–$275,000 in other U.S. states.

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