Carvana is looking for a capable and motivated attorney to provide pragmatic and innovative advice, supporting legal and business stakeholders with various projects and assignments involving multiple product teams, solutions groups, and strategic business initiatives.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience providing legal support to technology businesses at a firm and/or within a corporate legal department setting, although we will consider varying levels of legal experience combined with business/industry knowledge.
- Familiarity with, or an interest in: automotive industry, technology, e-commerce, consumer finance, intellectual property, information and product security, online payment regulations, and/or data privacy preferred.
- Ability to research and respond promptly to a wide range of legal requests, summarizing and communicating legal concepts that stakeholders can understand and act upon.
- Experience advising tech companies in the areas of state and federal auto dealer, marketing, consumer finance, consumer protection, and data privacy/cybersecurity regulations and best practices.
- Background in strategizing, advising on, and helping to launch multiple products or refining features of a product.
- Automotive and/or financial services industry experience.
- Project management experience and familiarity with various project management tools.
Responsibilities
- Provide quick and innovative support to legal colleagues involving a wide variety of complex questions.
- Work closely with product and development team members, including product managers, developers/engineers, data scientists, technical writers and brand and marketing managers.
- Assist with the provision of full product counseling, from initial stages of product conception and development, through post-launch maintenance and refinement.
- Support designated business units with any and all legal questions and issues that may arise.
- Foster a self-driven approach, independently issue spotting and working with appropriate internal and external legal experts, to generate risk-based guidance and counseling tailored to business capabilities and goals.
- Develop an acute understanding of business processes, including business partner goals, priorities and dependencies/constraints, and leverage this understanding to assist with cross-functional solutioning and collaboration across Carvana's vertical and horizontal teams.
- Obtain an intricate understanding of the ins and outs of the product offerings and combine the deep knowledge with legal research to provide well-thought-out legal analyses to questions involving risk.
Other
- The successful Counsel, Product is a highly collaborative, proactive legal generalist who excels in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- You must demonstrate excellent judgment, critical thinking, and business acumen, consistently providing pragmatic, effective legal solutions that support objectives while mitigating risk.
- The role requires superior communication skills (oral and written), a strong sense of ownership, and high accountability.
- You must be comfortable working with ambiguity, efficiently prioritizing dynamic workflows, and continually seeking to learn new legal areas and emerging technologies.
- A JD and an active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
