# Counsel, Product & Commercial (Rideshare)

**Company**: Lyft
**Location**: Seattle, WA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Lyft is hiring a bright, dynamic, and self-motivated attorney with at least 5 years of legal experience to join its Legal team.

The successful candidate will be adaptable, driven, and energized by a fast-paced environment where priorities can shift and no two days look quite the same.

### Responsibilities:

- Advise Lyft product teams as they develop, launch, and operate a wide range of new products and features across multiple lines of business

- Draft, review, and negotiate legal agreements involving complex partnerships and technology transactions; serve as the primary legal counsel for these partnerships, from ideation to product implementation

- Provide practical and creative legal advice and support on business matters in a fluctuating and fast-paced environment

- Integrate with cross-functional partners and their teams (including business development managers, product managers, and marketing managers) and serve as the voice of Legal throughout the product development process and related marketing initiatives

- Develop and drive comprehensive, long-term legal strategies that balance risk and business objectives

- Prioritize your workload to meet goals and deadlines in an environment where business priorities sometimes shift

- Assist other teams with projects on an as-needed basis

### Experience:

- Law degree and membership in at least one state bar with good standing

- 5+ years of experience working in a law firm or in-house legal department; experience advising clients on tech product development and/or partnership integration is a strong plus, but not required

- Excellent problem-solving capabilities, judgment, communication (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills

- Strong track record of working with a wide range of commercial agreements and customer-facing terms

- Willing and eager to take on new areas of law and function independently, while also being a team player who brings a positive attitude to the workplace in a demanding, fast-paced environment

- Ability to think quickly, convey grace under pressure, and simultaneously manage multiple client priorities

- Great judgment and sense of humor

### Benefits:

- Great medical, dental, and vision insurance options with additional programs available when enrolled

- Mental health benefits

- Family building benefits

- Child care and pet benefits

- 401(k) plan with company match to help save for your future

- In addition to 12 observed holidays, salaried team members have discretionary paid time off, hourly team members have 15 days paid time off

- 18 weeks of paid parental leave. Biological, adoptive, and foster parents are all eligible

- Subsidized commuter benefits

- Monthly Lyft credits and complimentary Lyft Pink membership

## Skills

### Required
- legal agreements
- partnership integration
- tech product development
- problem-solving
- communication
- interpersonal skills

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