At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections.
At Playlist, life's richest moments happen when people step away from screens to move, connect, explore, and play. We're building the definitive platform for intentional living, connecting people with inspiring experiences in fitness, wellness, and beyond. With popular brands like Mindbody and ClassPass, Playlist empowers businesses and individuals, making it effortless for aspirations to become actions. Join us in reshaping technology's role to foster meaningful, real-world connections.
The Role You'll Play- Lead legal strategy and negotiations for Playlist’s most significant and complex transactions, including strategic deals, M&A, corporate development, and enterprise-wide agreements across our SaaS, Aggregation, Strategy, and hardware business units
- Partner directly with executives on deal strategy, structure, and negotiating positions to shape business and legal outcomes
- Guide M&A, investments, due diligence, and post-close integration in partnership with corporate development teams and outside counsel
- Advise on antitrust and competition matters, including reviewing board and other relevant materials for competition considerations
- Develop contracting templates, playbooks, and approval processes that help teams move efficiently while maintaining quality
- Support hardware and software transactions, collaborating with legal and business colleagues across business units
- Identify, escalate, and mitigate risks while helping business leaders navigate commercial terms, legal considerations, and corporate policies
- Manage outside counsel relationships and budgets for assigned matters, and support other departments and initiatives as business needs evolve
- Hold a JD and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar
- Bring 12+ years of relevant legal experience, including transactional training at a leading law firm; 5+ years of in-house legal experience preferred, ideally at a technology company
- Lead complex, high-value negotiations from term sheet through close, drawing on strong drafting skills and creative approaches to novel deal structures
- Advise C-suite executives on high-stakes decisions, with the judgment to influence outcomes, challenge assumptions constructively, and communicate complex issues clearly
- Apply strong business acumen, professional ethics, and a practical, commercially minded approach to legal questions
- Guide cross-functional projects with business teams and legal colleagues across regulatory, product, privacy, and other practice areas while balancing competing priorities and navigating ambiguity
- Work independently and collaboratively, give and receive constructive feedback, and contribute beyond your primary practice area while respecting colleagues’ leadership on shared matters
- Ideally bring experience with M&A or in a multi-entity or portfolio-company environment; hardware or connected-device transaction experience is a plus
It is the Company's intent to pay all Team Members competitive wages and salaries that are motivational, fair and equitable. The goal of Company's compensation program is to be transparent, attract potential employees, meet the needs of all current employees, and encourage Team Members to stay with our organization. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location.
The base salary range for this position in the United States is $210,000 to $280,000. The total compensation package for this position may also include a performance bonus, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans
Sound like the role for you? We’d love to hear from you! Even if you’re not 100% sure about potential fit, we still encourage you to apply. We’re looking for the right person, not the perfect series of checkboxes.
The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We highly value diversity at our company and encourage people of all different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other protected characteristics.
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Note: This description outlines key responsibilities but isn’t intended to cover every task or duty. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed to support the team and business goals.
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