Who are we?
UpGuard’s mission is to make life easier for security teams. We meticulously create robust solutions that enable our customers to identify, assess, and remediate cybersecurity risk across their attack surface, vendor ecosystem, workforce, and trust relationships. Our integrated cyber risk posture management platform combines comprehensive security ratings, instant risk assessments, templated security questionnaires, threat intelligence capabilities, and agentic AI to give organizations a holistic view of their risk surface.
Our Legal team’s mission is to preempt, identify, and resolve legal risks in a timely manner to accelerate business goals. Legal is responsible for keeping UpGuard's operations compliant with all current laws and regulations. The Legal team exists to ensure that accountable decisions are taken at the right level and function in the organization and that individuals making decisions are informed about the level of legal risk inherent in them. Our Legal team works closely across the entire organization in support of various legal matters, with a primary focus on supporting our global sales teams. We’re looking for individuals who desire exposure to a wide variety of issues and the opportunity to grow alongside a high-growth cybersecurity SaaS business.
Where does this role fit in?
We are looking for an experienced General Counsel (GC) to lead our in-house legal function to support our evolving needs as we scale our pre-IPO business. Reporting to the COO, the GC will provide global enterprise-wide leadership and forge substantive relationships throughout the company as well as with the company’s external stakeholder groups. This is a perfect position for an ambitious lawyer who wants to lead the Legal function of a consistently scaling business that is defining a category of cybersecurity.
