Chief Legal Officer

Remote
Full Time
Experienced

Chief Legal Officer

Location: United States
Reports to: Chief Executive Officer

Role Overview

DTEX is seeking a seasoned, business‑minded Chief Legal Officer to serve as the company’s first senior in‑house legal leader. This is a highly strategic yet deeply hands‑on role designed for a legal executive who thrives in high‑growth, venture‑backed environments and is comfortable operating across ambiguity.
The Chief Legal Officer will own DTEX’s global legal strategy while acting as a practical business enabler—supporting revenue growth, scaling enterprise SaaS operations, navigating regulated environments, and applying AI to modernize legal workflows. The ideal candidate brings direct experience in data‑driven and cybersecurity companies, understands the realities of federal government contracting, and approaches legal risk through a commercial, outcomes‑oriented lens.

Primary Areas of Focus

Data & Cybersecurity Company Experience
Proven experience working in data‑centric and cybersecurity organizations, with a strong understanding of data protection, insider risk, privacy, security controls, and enterprise customer expectations.
AI Experience
Demonstrated experience using AI internally to scale legal operations and advising on AI‑related commercial contracts, including data usage, model risk, IP, and responsible AI considerations.
Startup & High‑Growth Environment Leadership
Experience operating in startups or scaling enterprise SaaS companies, where the legal function must cover a wide surface area—commercial, corporate, employment, compliance, privacy, global and local laws, and strategic initiatives—often with limited resources.
Federal Government & Regulated Customers
Hands‑on experience supporting U.S. Federal and Global Government customers, including familiarity with FedRAMP, government contracting vehicles, public sector procurement processes, and heightened regulatory scrutiny.

Key Responsibilities

  • Serve as the primary legal advisor to the CEO and Executive Leadership Team, balancing business enablement with intelligent risk management.
  • Own and oversee all commercial contracting, including MSAs, SaaS agreements, enterprise licensing, government contracts, DPAs, NDAs, partner agreements, and vendor agreements.
  • Lead adoption of AI‑enabled legal workflows to improve speed, consistency, and scale while maintaining legal judgment and accountability.
  • Act as a trusted partner to Sales, Deal Desk, Finance, and Sales Operations to enable enterprise SaaS revenue, accelerate deal velocity, and support complex negotiations.
  • Lead legal strategy for federal, regulated, and global enterprise customers, ensuring compliance without unnecessarily slowing the business.
  • Establish DTEX’s legal operating model, including contract standards, risk frameworks, escalation paths, and approval thresholds.
  • Manage and optimize internal legal team and external counsel relationships and legal spend.
  • Advise on global employment and labor matters, supporting both U.S. and international workforce issues, including hiring, separations, investigations, and policy development.
  • Oversee privacy, regulatory, and compliance obligations (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, export controls, anti‑corruption, public sector requirements).
  • Partner with Product, Security, Compliance, and Engineering teams on AI governance, data handling, privacy, and security risk.

Business Mindset & Operating Style

  • Experienced but not rigid — brings strong judgment while remaining flexible and pragmatic in fast‑moving environments.
  • Seen as a business enabler, not a blocker; understands that zero risk is not a viable business strategy.
  • Demonstrates a clear understanding of business risk vs. business value, helping DTEX move forward responsibly.
  • Comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and iterating as the business evolves.

AI & Technology Capabilities

  • Hands‑on experience using AI tools for contract review, redlining, risk identification, and legal research.
  • Experience advising on AI‑related commercial terms, including data rights, IP ownership, model training, and customer risk allocation.
  • Ability to design and govern AI‑assisted legal processes with appropriate human oversight, auditability, and compliance

Thought Leadership & Brand Credibility

  • Ability and willingness to lend credibility to the DTEX brand through external thought leadership.
  • Willingness to speak at conferences, participating in panels, publishing articles, contributing to LinkedIn thought leadership, and supporting marketing initiatives as a subject‑matter expert.
  • Comfortable representing DTEX with enterprise customers, partners, regulators, and industry audiences.

Qualifications

  • 12+ years of legal experience, including Senior in‑house Counsel / Chief Legal Officer/ General Counsel roles.
  • Direct experience in data companies, cybersecurity companies, or enterprise SaaS organizations.
  • Experience supporting federal government customers and regulated enterprise buyers.
  • Strong background in commercial contracting for complex, enterprise SaaS deals.
  • Experience handling global employment matters across multiple jurisdictions.
  • Demonstrated success operating in startup or high‑growth environments.
  • Strong executive presence with the ability to influence, enable, and partner across the business.

Why Join DTEX?

This role is ideal for a Chief Legal Officer who wants to build, scale, and lead—bringing strong legal judgment, commercial instincts, and modern AI fluency to a fast‑growing cybersecurity company.
  • Impact at Scale – Drive the growth of a market-leading cybersecurity company.
  • Thriving Company Culture – DTEX fosters a values-driven environment prioritizing respect, inclusion, and collaboration.
  • Growth & Development – Opportunities for professional advancement and lifelong learning.
  • Flexibility – Hybrid or remote work options.
  • Comprehensive Benefits – Competitive compensation, equity participation, health and wellness benefits, and generous time-off policies.

Base salary range (SF Bay Area): $300-$350k.
Exact compensation may vary based on skills, experience, and location.
 

About DTEX

DTEX is the leader in risk-adaptive security, unifying human, data, and AI risk through a behavioral intelligence platform. Built for enterprise scale, DTEX detects threats early and prevents breaches before they impact the business.

By analyzing how people, data, and AI systems interact, DTEX surfaces early indicators of risk that other tools miss and provides the context needed to act with precision. The platform brings together insider risk management, risk-adaptive data protection, user and entity behavior analytics, user activity monitoring, and AI risk management into a single, cohesive solution.

Organizations and governments worldwide rely on DTEX to protect sensitive data, enable secure innovation, and safeguard trust. With privacy-by-design telemetry and adaptive controls, security teams can reduce risk without disrupting productivity.

Joining DTEX means working on some of the most complex and high-impact security challenges facing enterprises today.
 
Share

Apply for this position

Required*
We've received your resume. Click here to update it.
Attach resume or Paste resume
Attach resume as .pdf, .doc, .docx, .odt, .txt, or .rtf (limit 5MB) or Paste resume

Paste your resume here or Attach resume file

To comply with government Equal Employment Opportunity and/or Affirmative Action reporting regulations, we are requesting (but NOT requiring) that you enter this personal data. This information will not be used in connection with any employment decisions, and will be used solely as permitted by state and federal law. Your voluntary cooperation would be appreciated. Learn more.
Invitation for Job Applicants to Self-Identify as a U.S. Veteran
  • A “disabled veteran” is one of the following:
    • a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or
    • a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.
  • A “recently separated veteran” means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.
  • An “active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran” means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.
  • An “Armed forces service medal veteran” means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.
Veteran status


Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability
Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability Form CC-305
OMB Control Number 1250-0005
Expires 04/30/2026
Why are you being asked to complete this form?

We are a federal contractor or subcontractor. The law requires us to provide equal employment opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. We have a goal of having at least 7% of our workers as people with disabilities. The law says we must measure our progress towards this goal. To do this, we must ask applicants and employees if they have a disability or have ever had one. People can become disabled, so we need to ask this question at least every five years.

Completing this form is voluntary, and we hope that you will choose to do so. Your answer is confidential. No one who makes hiring decisions will see it. Your decision to complete the form and your answer will not harm you in any way. If you want to learn more about the law or this form, visit the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) website at www.dol.gov/ofccp.

How do you know if you have a disability?

A disability is a condition that substantially limits one or more of your “major life activities.” If you have or have ever had such a condition, you are a person with a disability. Disabilities include, but are not limited to:

  • Alcohol or other substance use disorder (not currently using drugs illegally)
  • Autoimmune disorder, for example, lupus, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, HIV/AIDS
  • Blind or low vision
  • Cancer (past or present)
  • Cardiovascular or heart disease
  • Celiac disease
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Deaf or serious difficulty hearing
  • Diabetes
  • Disfigurement, for example, disfigurement caused by burns, wounds, accidents, or congenital disorders
  • Epilepsy or other seizure disorder
  • Gastrointestinal disorders, for example, Crohn's Disease, irritable bowel syndrome
  • Intellectual or developmental disability
  • Mental health conditions, for example, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, schizophrenia, PTSD
  • Missing limbs or partially missing limbs
  • Mobility impairment, benefiting from the use of a wheelchair, scooter, walker, leg brace(s) and/or other supports
  • Nervous system condition, for example, migraine headaches, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Neurodivergence, for example, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder, dyslexia, dyspraxia, other learning disabilities
  • Partial or complete paralysis (any cause)
  • Pulmonary or respiratory conditions, for example, tuberculosis, asthma, emphysema
  • Short stature (dwarfism)
  • Traumatic brain injury
Please check one of the boxes below:

PUBLIC BURDEN STATEMENT: According to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 no persons are required to respond to a collection of information unless such collection displays a valid OMB control number. This survey should take about 5 minutes to complete.

You must enter your name and date
Human Check*