Legal.io

Our Culture

Many companies list their perks, but to us, culture is less about what you get, and more about how you succeed, and how you belong. We have a culture of diversity, responsibility and intentionality, towards each other and towards the communities we identify with. We build relationships that endure and software that serves a greater purpose. We are non-hierarchical. We challenge each other and society’s status quo. We experiment, measure, learn and share. We balance autonomy, individual accountability and celebration of great work, with the sense of belonging that comes from a life shared with communities of good people.

Legal.io is part of the StartX community of Stanford’s top entrepreneurs. With access to regular community events and workshops, members of our team can learn, bounce ideas around and get feedback from a network of the finest entrepreneurial peers and mentors, ready to share their experiences and expertise. Our main offices are based in San Francisco, but our team members are we are committed to working with the best people regardless of location.

10 great reasons to join the Legal.io team

A chance to build a platform that will help millions of people with important, often life-changing issues.
An opportunity to transform one of the last remaining unreformed industries.
An environment that cares about your personal growth and rewards initiative.
A team that cares deeply about legal access and getting things done efficiently.
Access top peers and mentors through the Stanford StartX network.
A community of individuals who thrive on continued learning and making a meaningful impact.
Innovate at the intersection of law and technology. If you're a lawyer, we'll teach you how to code, and if you're a coder, we'll teach you about the law!
Visas readily available if you're looking for a stint in Silicon Valley, or the chance to work remotely if you're a globetrotter.
Flexible, self-directed vacation time: 2 weeks per year, minimum.
Full health-care coverage, including dental and vision.

Current Openings

Product Marketing Director Full-time

We are currently looking for a Product Marketing Director to join our team. The product marketing director will be a leader on the team responsible for telling the world (and company) the story of our products. You will be expected to conducted market research and analyze market trends and competition for Legal.io. Additionally, you will be charged with crafting the strategy around the messaging and marketing for new launches.

The Role

Review the overall market and identify key opportunities, threats and features, while working closely with internal teams and customers to impact product direction.
Develop, drive, and execute all marketing strategies to take new products to market (positioning, audience sizing, promotions, messaging, etc.)
Work and collaborate cross-functionally with product, sales, communications, design, etc. regularly to support product launches and all go-to-market strategies.
Drive continued use and growth of the product/feature post-launch by identifying optimization opportunities, prioritizing areas of opportunity, and innovating on how to drive feature adoption.
Measure and optimize the buyer journey as it relates to product feature adoption and usage.
Drive user insights - be the expert of your end user and provide feedback loop into the product team on any insights on how to improve the overall experience.
Work with customers and partners to generate customer success stories.
Together with the product team, educate both internal and external stakeholders about our product features and their benefits.
Assist members of our sales team on calls with prospects when appropriate to provide deeper dives into the product.
Create and publish materials such as blogs, white papers, presentations, collateral, case studies, podcasts and videos.
Participate in public relations and analyst relations activities such as briefings, interviews, and the development of responses to RFIs.
Speak and present both internally and externally to promote the story of our product.

The Must Haves

5+ years of digital marketing, product marketing, and/or product management experience.
Very strong written and verbal communication skills.
Experience taking a leading role in driving campaigns that measurably increase sales pipelines, network effects and virality for platforms that have been successfully adopted by customers.
Analytical thinker and experience in data-driven marketing. Results driven with the ability to analyze complex data to inform strategic decisions.
Thrives in a fast-paced environment with a bias to action.
Proficiency in content management systems. You will be expected to build product pages, optimize the conversion paths on those pages, and use dynamic calls-to-action to create and test buyer stage-specific calls-to-action.
Prefer working in a collaborative, cross-team capacity. This role requires you to work across functions and departments to bring the product to life. You are at the center of our entire organization, constantly interacting with teammates and prospects.

Bonus Skills and Experience

Experience working with a two-sided platform.
Legal experience and/or background.
Experience working in a startup environment.

Apply for this position

If you are feeling inspired, check out our website www.legal.io and apply. Be sure to include a cover letter to let us know why you think you'd be a good fit, and feel free to mention anyone you have previously worked with at Legal.io: talent (at) legal (dot) io

Intern: Communications & Social Media Specialist Part-time

We are currently seeking a social media intern to help propel the brand into becoming the go-to source for legal news, stories about how the law affects all facets of our daily lives, and guides that help users understand those implications. While the position is a paid internship, this is also an excellent opportunity to gain experience in a cutting-edge, fast paced startup environment and be on the forefront of the profound shift currently affecting the legal industry.

The Role

We hope to grow our following on Facebook by targeting specific communities of lawyers, utilize Twitter to connect directly to relevant thought leaders and experiment with LinkedIn and Reddit in order to expand our reach even further.

The ideal social media intern will be a self-starter, a passionate law student or paralegal with a firm understanding about how the law governs and shapes our society, a creative thinker and a social media whiz comfortable with spending hours on various platforms connecting to end-users. The job can be done remotely or from our headquarters in San Francisco's Lower Haight neighborhood, and will roughly comprise 15-20 hours of work a week.

Responsibilities

Increasing Legal.io’s Facebook following by regularly posting news articles, Legal.io guides, blog posts, custom-made graphics, legal tips of the day, photos, and stories directly from other branded pages.
Utilizing tools such as CrowdTangle to identify trending news stories in the legal space to use as a hook for our own original content or to share directly on our Facebook page.
Identifying and joining legal communities on Facebook, from groups of professional lawyers in specific cities to current law students at various schools. Interacting with the most robust Facebook communities by providing useful commentary on discussion threads, sharing on Legal.io directly from their pages and @tagging influential users.
Coming up with and executing creative promotions to increase our following as well as special events such as ¨live chats¨ with experts.
Forming unofficial partnerships with other brands and/or media outlets.
Exploring pricing and deliverables associated with buying out sponsored advertisements.
Tweeting at least twice a day, and identifying and interacting with “influencers” in the space.
Experimenting with posting content directed towards the legal communities on Reddit and LinkedIn; noting successes and failures and tailoring strategy accordingly.
Establishing a solid voice and a firm identity.
Monitoring progress and metrics.
Designing and implementing any other social strategies that will help to expand our brand's reach.

The Must Haves

Familiarity with social networks and social media.
Strong written and visual communications skills.

Bonus Skills & Experience

A legal background.

Apply for this position

If you are feeling inspired, check out our website www.legal.io and apply. Be sure to include a cover letter to let us know why you think you'd be a good fit, and feel free to mention anyone you have previously worked with at Legal.io: talent (at) legal (dot) io

Intern: Engineer Part-time

We are currently seeking an Engineer to join our team as an intern.

The Role

Software touches every corner of our company, enabling us to continually improve every process by controlling the tools that run them. Our product design and customer-facing teams include software engineers and relish having software-automation drive scalability in every aspect of the organization. In addition to our internal tools, we encourage a tight loop between our engineers and our UI/UX experts to develop product and prototype features.

We run a cloud-first, API-driven architecture. Our goal is to enable everyone in the world to access the experts, data and tools in our network, so huge web-scalability is a requirement.

Our stack is currently coded primarily in Ruby on Rails. We keep gems/frameworks up to date and periodically refactor to remove legacy code. We run a 2-week sprint process, with a one to two day interstitial. We have a VirtualBox environment that mimics the production website with test data. Our applications are built on a foundation of open source projects. We work to be active contributors to those projects and dedicated stewards of new open source tools and infrastructure projects.

The Must Haves

Rails 4.2 / Ruby 2.2 (2+ years)
HTML/CSS (1+ year)
Experience maintaining and improving existing software, including testing and refactoring.
Experience with REST API design.
BS/MS Computer Science or equivalent professional experience.
Bonus Skills and Experience

Bonus Skills & Experience

Slim templating
Mongo/Mongoid
Git/Github usage
Expert javascript
Experience working as part of a distributed team.
History of taking software projects from inception to production.
Comfortable taking the lead on projects and working without lots of oversight.
History of open source contributions / leadership

Apply for this position

If you are feeling inspired, check out our website www.legal.io and apply. Be sure to include a cover letter to let us know why you think you'd be a good fit, and feel free to mention anyone you have previously worked with at Legal.io: talent (at) legal (dot) io

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