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# Corporate Counsel, Commercial Contracts at Mango Languages

- **Company:** Mango Languages
- **Location:** Farmington Hills, MI
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-01
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/mangolanguage/2dc92a37-f3da-4488-9236-4bb860e956bb

## Job description

## About Mango

Mango Languages is a mission-driven company helping people around the world connect through language and culture. Our platform supports learners in schools, libraries, businesses, and government organizations. We are a small, high-impact team that values clarity, integrity, and collaboration — and we hold ourselves to a high bar on the details that protect our customers and our company.

## About the Role

This is a growth-track role: you'll start with core contract work, including order forms and quality assurance, as well as RFP support, and take on increasingly complex agreements and legal matters as you build familiarity with Mango's business, standards, and playbooks. Mango Languages is hiring a Corporate Counsel to support our legal function across a broad range of business matters. Commercial contracting will be a core part of the role, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating customer and vendor agreements, working with business teams to structure appropriate terms, and helping identify and address legal, financial, operational, and business risk. The Corporate Counsel will also work on a range of additional legal matters as they arise, including intellectual property, employment law, regulatory compliance, and data privacy. The role includes conducting legal research, working with outside specialists when appropriate, and helping improve legal processes, templates, and resources, including through thoughtful use of AI to streamline work and enhance legal output. Working under the direction of the Senior Corporate Counsel, this attorney will apply judgment within established playbooks and precedent on day-to-day matters, escalating novel issues or any deviation from playbook to the Senior Corporate Counsel. This is a growth-track role: you'll start with core contract work, including order forms and quality assurance, as well as RFP support, and take on increasingly complex agreements and legal matters as you build familiarity with Mango's business, standards, and playbooks.

## Key Responsibilities

- Draft, review, revise, and negotiate customer and vendor agreements, including order forms, subscription agreements, technology agreements, statements of work, amendments, nondisclosure agreements, and proposed changes to Mango's standard forms.

- Identify and communicate legal, financial, operational, and business risks; recommend and negotiate appropriate responses; and escalate significant or unusual issues when appropriate.

- Work with colleagues across the company to structure contractual terms, confirm business arrangements, review related transactional documents, and facilitate contract execution.

- Draft and review RFPs and related responses, and provide careful quality assurance across contracts and other legal documents to ensure accuracy, consistency, completeness, and a polished final product.

- Apply and help refine existing contract templates, standard provisions, and legal playbooks; maintain accurate records, workflows, and organization of contracts and related documents

- Research and address a broad range of legal matters affecting Mango's business, including corporate governance, employment law, intellectual property, regulatory compliance, risk management and insurance, and data privacy; collaborate with external legal specialists as needed.

- Maintain a strong understanding of Mango's contracting standards and product offerings, participate in legal team initiatives and special projects, and perform other duties as assigned.

## What We're Looking For

- JD and bar admission in good standing in any U.S. state

- 5+ years of legal experience

- Strong contract drafting, review, and negotiation skills

- Sound legal and business judgment, including the ability to identify risk, recommend practical approaches, and recognize when an issue should be escalated

- Excellent attention to detail and a consistent ability to produce accurate, polished work

- Intellectual curiosity and comfort working through legal issues that may be outside your day-to-day experience

- Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple agreements, projects, and deadlines at once

- Clear, direct communication skills, including the ability to explain legal issues and recommendations to non-lawyers

- Proficiency with Google Workspace and Adobe Acrobat Pro; comfort working in a Mac-based environment

Interview Process Candidates will complete a skills-based contract review assessment as part of the interview process. The exercise is designed to evaluate practical contract-review skills, judgment, and attention to detail.

## Equal Opportunity

Mango Languages is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Mango Languages provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities in accordance with applicable law. We maintain a drug-free workplace and are committed to a safe and healthy environment for all employees.

Mango Languages may use AI-assisted tools to support limited aspects of the hiring process, such as an initial review of candidate responses against predefined evaluation criteria. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. All application materials and assessments are reviewed by human reviewers, and final hiring decisions are always made by humans.

## About Mango Languages

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Mango Languages is a language-learning platform offering conversation-based courses in over 70 languages, serving consumers, schools, libraries, and businesses.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Privately Held)
- **Headquarters**: Detroit, Michigan, United States (HQ), with additional offices in Farmington Hills, Michigan [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/mango-languages)
- **Founded**: 2007
- **Founders**: Jason Teshuba (CEO), Mike Teshuba (COO), Ryan Whalen (Business Development Strategist), Mike Goulas (Director of Business Development) [mangolanguages.com](https://mangolanguages.com/company/)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: E-Learning / Language Education
- **Target customers**: B2C (individual learners), B2B (corporate training), B2G (government agencies), K-12 schools and libraries. Enterprise and SMB segments.
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To inspire curious people to forge deeper connections through meaningful interactions” [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/mango-languages)

## Products & Services
- **Mango Languages Platform**: Adaptive, conversation-based digital language learning system available on web, iOS, and Android. Content created by expert linguists and native speakers, covering over 70 languages.
- **Mango Live Coach**: Live tutoring sessions (e.g., French) for conversational practice. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/mangolanguage/)
- **Little Pim** (acquired March 2023): Language learning for young children, expanding Mango’s offering. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/mango-languages)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue ~ **$12M** (as of most recent data) [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/mango-languages)
- **Total Funding**: Not publicly available (appears bootstrapped or privately funded without disclosed rounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No major external investors named; key partners include libraries, schools, and corporate clients. Alumni go to Google, Amazon, Rosetta Stone, Berlitz. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/mango-languages)
- **Growth Signals**: 129 total employees (builtin.com) / 114 employees on LinkedIn; headcount grew ~1.9% YoY (+3 people). Recent acquisition of Little Pim. 2 active job postings (including Sr. Agentic AI Software Engineer). [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/mango-languages)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Content quality**: Courses built by expert linguists and native speakers using proven methodologies (not crowdsourced).
- **Adaptive learning**: Technology that adjusts to the learner’s pace and focuses on conversation skills, retention, and cultural context.
- **Diverse distribution**: Available through libraries (free for cardholders), schools, and corporate partners, giving broad reach.
- **Niche depth**: Over 70 languages, including less-common ones (e.g., Tuvan, Cherokee) often missing from competitors.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI integration**: Recent hiring for a “Sr. Agentic AI Software Engineer” indicates investment in AI-driven personalization and tutoring. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/mangolanguage/)
- **Expansion**: Continued growth in enterprise and education verticals, plus international workforce (21 countries). [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/mango-languages)
- **Product development**: Enhancing live coaching and mobile experience.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Risk-takers and ambitious innovators”; passion for language and culture [mangolanguages.com](https://mangolanguages.com/company/)
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Fully remote company (US-only for some roles), with optional in-office presence in Michigan [mangolanguages.com](https://mangolanguages.com/company/careers/)
- **Perks**: Competitive pay, health insurance (medical/dental/vision), 401(k) with employer match, tuition assistance, paid time off, short/long-term disability, bonus program, language learning access [mangolanguages.com](https://mangolanguages.com/company/careers/)
- **Work environment**: Weekly team-building meetings, employee recognition rewards, annual in-person event. Flexible, fully remote from home [mangolanguages.com](https://mangolanguages.com/company/careers/)
- **Engineering culture**: Tech stack includes Ruby, Python, React, AI tools, Ada, Zendesk, Salesforce, etc. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/mango-languages)

## Sources
1. [mangolanguages.com – Company page](https://mangolanguages.com/company/)
2. [mangolanguages.com – Careers page](https://mangolanguages.com/company/careers/)
3. [builtin.com – Mango Languages profile](https://builtin.com/company/mango-languages)
4. [linkedin.com – Mango Languages company page](https://linkedin.com/company/mango-languages)
5. [jobs.lever.co – Mango Languages job postings](https://jobs.lever.co/mangolanguage/)

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- [Mango Live Coach for French (part-time)](https://feeny.ai/job/mango-live-coach-for-french-part-time-mango-languages-southfield-9fxfjykqqx1m) — Southfield, MI