The Opportunity: 

The Legal department is looking for the next addition to our legal team -- a great lawyer who will manage our IP portfolio and various technology policies (e.g. open source) and work closely with technology teams on any expansion of our IP; advise various product and technology teams on AI, use of data and data governance; and review, draft and negotiate SaaS agreements with vendors and strategic partners. 

As IP & Product Commercial Counsel, you’ll join a global team and report directly to the Chief Legal Officer. You will partner directly with executives and senior business and technology leaders on the maintenance and growth of our global supply chain technology platform and our IP portfolio. 

This role is a great opportunity for someone with a passion for technology, excellent problem-solving skills and an ability to thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment that requires cross-functional collaboration across the legal, technology and business teams. 

You Will: 

Manage the Company’s IP Portfolio:

• Manage and maintain an ever-expanding global trademark portfolio along with outse counsel 
• Lead internal invention harvesting/brainstorming activities with technology team members 
• Manage patent preparation, prosecution, and related activities carried-out by outside counsel 
• Review draft patent applications, office actions and other patent office submissions 
• Conduct training related to patents 
• Support IP-related aspects of M&A and strategic transactions 
• Analyze any potential third party infringement, cease & desist notifications and any IP-related disputes 

Lead Commercial Contracts for SaaS & Technology Partners 

• Negotiate SaaS contracts with a variety of third parties including vendors in the cutting edge technology areas of supply chain visibility. customers and vendors (G&A) across all industries, segments and geographic locations. 
• Support and coach product, engineering and operations teams on the most critical IP and data-related commercial issues in SaaS contracts and deals. 

Provide Product Counsel to Various Business & Technology Teams:

• Work with various product and engineering teams on AI-related initiatives, data integrations with various third parties and data governance policies and procedures. 
• Serve as a trusted advisor and business partner across the Company by providing counsel and guidance for accomplishing Flexport’s overall business objectives.

Negotiate Commercial Contracts for the US Business: 

• Negotiate commercial contracts of all types with various types of vendors (non-SaaS, G&A, various commercial) 
• Advise a multitude of business teams on risk, negotiating points, and agreement structures. 
• Collaborate with leadership in Sales, Finance, Risk, Insurance, Compliance, Operations, and various business teams across the Company to close deals. 

You Should Have: 

• JD and bar admission to practice in any US state. 
• 4 + years of professional experience including private law firm experience and/or in-house. 
• Experience in intellectual property, whether at a law firm or in house. 
• A solid understanding of commercial contract law. 
• Experience and/or the willingness to learn how to review cutting-edge platform products and services that implicate data sharing, data rights, data use, AI, and data integrations between Flexport and various third parties
• Experience and/or desire to partner with a dynamic product & engineering team across the Company 
• Desire to expand to support additional business teams as required by Company growth.
• Practical experience and solid knowledge of commercial and contract law. 
• Comfort with handling topics such as privacy and data protection in the commercial contract context. 
• The ability to multitask, work on your own, and prioritize multiple, often competing for deliverables while managing expectations meeting deadlines. 
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to coordinate effectively and gain trust and confidence with personnel at many different levels. 
• Ability to work as a team member of the legal department in a scalable, autonomous and accountable manner, demonstrating flexibility across deal types and time zones. 
• Excellent communication skills to interact with both internal departments and external business clients while addressing complex issues in an accurate, clear, and thorough manner. 
• The ability to build relationships and to establish myself as a trusted advisor and business partner across the Company.
• You'll need to be proactive and engaged, able to work well cross-functionally both internally and externally, excited about technology and e-commerce, and ready to roll your sleeves up and dig into tough legal problems to reach a creative solution

The Opportunity: 

The Legal department is looking for the next addition to our legal team -- a great lawyer who will support the US business — and the global business - on both pre-litigation commercial disputes and formal litigation matters. 

As Litigation Counsel, you’ll join a global team and report directly to the Chief Legal Officer. You will partner directly with executives, senior business leaders to set commercial litigation strategy for all commercial disputes including with supply chain partners and vendors, customers and various commercial third parties. 

This role is a great opportunity for someone with a passion for technology, excellent problem-solving skills, creative negotiation skills and an ability to thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment that requires cross-functional collaboration across the legal and business teams. 

You Will: 

Lead Litigation Strategy for Commercial Disputes: 

• Be the lead legal advisor to the business, Chief Legal Officer and Chief Financial Officer on all commercial disputes, both pre-litigation matters and formal litigation
• Represent the Company in a variety of venues, including mediation, arbitration, private settlements, regulatory bodies and US courts 
• Lead engagements with various outside counsel as necessary 
• Work with litigation paralegal to manage and track all matters, from inception and preservation notices through interim reporting of matters and accruals, through to resolution of matters 

You Should Have: 

• 3+ years of experience in commercial litigation, resolving pre-litigation commercial disputes of all types 
• Knowledge and experience in commercial disputes within the supply chain a very strong plus — transportation, trucking, warehousing, freight forwarding, ocean carrier, motor carrier, air carriers 
• Knowledge of general conventions and liability standards (COGSA, Warsaw, Montreal, etc) applicable to logistics and cargo claims and disputes a very strong plus
• A strong preference for applicants with litigation experience or experience handling pre-litigation claims and disputes in the maritime or trucking industry. 
• Command of federal and state laws and regulations governing trucking, property brokerage, warehousing, 3PL services, carrier liens, and financial transactions in the transportation industry. 
• A strong appreciation of how transportation services are actually performed that empowers you to provide clear, actionable legal advice about operations and strategic plans. 
• A working knowledge of marine, cargo, logistics and liability insurance is a strong plus.
• A strong work ethic and a desire to meaningfully engage with multiple teams on a regular basis. 
• Common sense, great judgment, and a good sense of humor. 
• Ability to assess risk and provide sound, commercially-minded legal advice to Executives and senior business leaders 
• Ability to work on your own and prioritize multiple, often competing deliverables while managing expectations and meeting deadlines 
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to coordinate effectively and gain trust and confidence with personnel at many different levels 
• Ability to work as a team member of the legal department in a scalable, autonomous and accountable manner, demonstrating flexibility across matter types and time zones
• Excellent communication skills to interact with both internal clients & colleagues as well as external parties (counsel, customers, supply chain vendors) while addressing complex issues in an accurate, clear, and thorough manner.

Worried about not having any logistics experience? 

Don’t be! Our mission is to make global trade easy for everyone. That’s why it’s important to bring people from diverse backgrounds and experiences together with our industry veterans to help move the global logistics industry forward.

We know this industry is complex. That’s why we invest in education starting day one with Flexport Academy, a one week intensive onboarding program designed specifically to set every new Flexport employee up for success.

The Opportunity: 

The Legal department is looking for the next addition to our legal team -- a great lawyer who will support our trucking technology platform, trucking procurement and sales teams, as well as our warehousing technology and operations teams. 

As Trucking & Warehousing Transportation Counsel, you’ll join a global team and report directly to the Chief Legal Officer. You will partner directly with executives and senior business leaders on innovative technology-forward solutions to disrupt the US trucking industry, negotiate commercial contracts with various participants in the trucking and warehousing supply chain and ensure the Company’s compliance with applicable legal and compliance obligations. 

This role is a great opportunity for someone with a passion for technology, excellent problem-solving skills and an ability to thrive in a fast-paced, changing environment that requires cross-functional collaboration across the legal and business teams. 

You Will: 

Lead Product Review for Innovative Trucking, Warehousing and Fulfillment Platforms:

• Be the lead legal advisor to the Product & Engineering teams in charge of our trucking brokerage platform application for both brokers and motor carrier users, including for compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and ensuring terms and conditions applicable to the use of the platform and the relationship with Flexport are clearly outlined between all parties.
• Review iterations to our current fulfillment product platform in which companies of all sizes (but in particular SMB enterprises) coordinate the last-mile delivery of their cargo within the United States 

Lead Commercial Contracts with Trucking & Warehousing Providers: 

• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts in the US and internationally, including terms of service, warehousing and fulfillment agreements, carrier, broker and transportation agreements, agreements with shippers, partnership agreements, and procurement agreements 
• Coordinate and collaborate with various teams such as Product, Engineering, Sales, 3PL Operations, and Procurement to collect input, ensuring our agreements appropriately reflect business needs. 
• Advise, support and coach the business on risk, negotiating points and agreement structures in various supply chain agreements 
• Serve as a trusted advisor and business partner across the company by providing counsel and guidance for accomplishing Flexport’s overall business objectives 

You Should Have: 

• 8+ years of experience representing companies in the transportation industry including trucking (asset operating carriers and/or property brokers), warehousing, and/or fulfillment 
• Experience negotiating various supply chain transportation service agreements (motor carriers, brokers, warehouses and 3PL providers). 
• A strong preference for applicants with litigation experience or experience handling pre-litigation claims and disputes in the trucking industry. 
• Command of federal and state laws and regulations governing trucking, property brokerage, warehousing, 3PL services, carrier liens, and financial transactions in the transportation industry. 
• A strong appreciation of how transportation services are actually performed that empowers you to provide clear, actionable legal advice about operations and strategic plans. 
• A working knowledge of marine, cargo, logistics and liability insurance is a strong plus. 
• An understanding of and familiarity with platforms, apps and software in use in the US transportation industry - and specifically in US trucking - is a strong plus. 
• The ability to manage a number of long term strategic projects while providing day-to-day guidance to clients about a variety of legal issues. 
• A strong work ethic and a desire to meaningfully engage with multiple teams on a regular basis. 
• Common sense, great judgment, and a good sense of humor. 
• Ability to assess risk and provide sound, commercially-minded legal advice to Executives and senior business leaders on structure of M&A transactions
• Ability to work on your own and prioritize multiple, often competing deliverables while managing expectations and meeting deadlines 
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to coordinate effectively and gain trust and confidence with personnel at many different levels 
• Ability to work as a team member of the legal department in a scalable, autonomous and accountable manner, demonstrating flexibility across deal types and time zones 
• Excellent communication skills to interact with both internal clients & colleagues as well as external parties (counsel, customers, supply chain vendors) while addressing complex issues in an accurate, clear, and thorough manner.

Help Facilitate Our Clients’ Duty Recovery Efforts

The opportunity: 

Flexport is experiencing massive growth with 2,500+ Flexporters across 20 global offices and warehouses. And we’re just getting started. With revenue growing at breakneck speed, Flexport is looking for a Senior Drawback Manager to join our Drawback and Refund Services branch of our Trade Management team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for optimizing our clients’ drawback recoveries and facilitating their drawback experience alongside some of the smartest people in the logistics industry as we collectively challenge the status quo and reduce the friction in global trade.

You will: 

• Strive to create an agile technology-focused high-performance culture.
• Manage a team and be a proactive leader to build and grow Drawback services.
• Independently own a portfolio of clients and projects and be responsible for execution and reporting relevant metrics.
• Work with software engineers, product, and design on the modernization, implementation, and improvement of drawback software
• Contribute to the product roadmap to build best-in-class global drawback software platform
• Use creativity to improve operational efficiency, leadership communication, enablement, and revenue growth.
• Prepare US and foreign duty drawback forms as necessary for establishing and maintaining our clients’ drawback programs
• Analyze import, export, manufacturing, and other business documents and data
• Proactively investigate drawback recovery enhancements
• Prepare drawback claims utilizing drawback software solutions, analyze results, and troubleshoot issues
• Manage and maintain import, export, and other client and claim databases
• Submit documentation and claims to Customs and follow up as necessary
• Work to ensure compliance with drawback and other regulations
• Organize and execute internal and external drawback-related communications.
• Support Trade Management infrastructure and administrative requirements.

You should have: 

• Strong interpersonal skills and detail-oriented with superior organizational, multi-tasking, and problem-solving skills, 
• Expertise with Microsoft Office suite with emphasis on Excel and Google equivalents,  analytical tools and functions highly desirable
• Familiarity with large sets of data
• Mastery of email communication. You keep the inbox at zero.
• High level of computer literacy. No paper. All digital.
• 5-7 years of experience in duty drawback program implementation and account management, preferred.
• 3-5 years of experience managing associates, projects, and business metrics.
• Public speaking and presentation skills, including experience with webinars, training sessions, and client facing presentations, preferred.
• Industry knowledge including classification, valuation, duty minimization and avoidance strategies, government regulations and rulings, and other trade information preferred.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university, Licensed Customs Broker preferred
• A "compliance first" attitude to keep our regulators happy and enthusiastic about Flexport since we operate in a heavily regulated industry.