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# Head of Legal at Retool

- **Company:** Retool
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $282k–$332k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-29
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/retool/am9icG9zdDphWFh5HzIpYojPadyl6SzX

## Job description

## WHY WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU:

We’re hiring a Head of Legal to be Retool’s senior legal leader and the architect of a function built to scale. You’ll own the full scope of legal: commercial and vendor contracting, privacy and compliance, and the corporate matters that underpin a fast-growing company, including governance, employment, IP, and financing. This is a role for a builder who still enjoys handling the details. You’ll negotiate the deals that matter most, write the first version of the playbooks and policies, and make the judgment calls in an evolving AI-centric space. You’ll also advise executives with GC-level credibility, shape how Retool weighs risk against opportunity, and grow a team that carries the work forward as the company scales.

This role reports to the CFO and partners closely with Sales, Finance, Trust, Product, and People. You’ll lead our existing legal team, set its priorities, and be the first stop for legal questions across the company, escalating to outside counsel where it makes sense. If you want to run a legal function that acts as a business enabler rather than a checkpoint, and you’re energized by how AI is changing both our product and the practice of law, this role is for you.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO:

- Lead and develop the legal team, setting priorities, coaching attorneys and legal operations staff, and deciding when to hire, automate, or use outside counsel
- Own the commercial contracting program, serving as the escalation point for complex or non-standard MSAs, DPAs, order forms, and partnership agreements, and partnering with Sales leadership on strategic and enterprise deals
- Oversee the vendor contract program, setting the risk positions and approval thresholds that let business owners move quickly
- Lead our privacy and data protection legal work (GDPR, CCPA, and emerging state and international regimes) as it arises in contracts, product features, and customer security reviews
- Advise on the legal and regulatory landscape for AI, including customer-facing AI terms, responsible use, IP and data rights, and evolving regulation, working with Product, Engineering, and Trust
- Build and maintain our legal infrastructure: contract intake and CLM workflows, templates, negotiation playbooks, policies, and process documentation, using AI wherever it improves speed and consistency
- Partner with Finance, Accounting, Trust, People, and other teams to give practical, business-oriented guidance on day-to-day operational matters, including employment, IP, and compliance questions
- Manage outside counsel relationships and the legal budget, and support corporate matters such as governance, equity administration, and financing or corporate development projects with the CEO and Finance
- Report on legal risk, workload, and team performance to company leadership, and escalate material issues early

## THE SKILLSET YOU'LL BRING:

- J.D. and active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
- 10+ years of experience at a law firm and/or in-house, with deep exposure to B2B SaaS commercial contracting across both customer and vendor relationships
- Prior experience leading or managing attorneys or a legal function, or a clear track record of readiness to do so (for example, as a senior counsel or director of legal)
- Strong working knowledge of privacy and data protection frameworks, including GDPR and CCPA, and how they apply to enterprise SaaS and AI products
- Familiarity with legal issues specific to AI, such as model and data licensing, IP ownership, and emerging regulation
- Sound judgment on risk: you can tell what needs escalating from what you can resolve, and you can explain tradeoffs to executives in plain language
- Comfort with high-volume, fast-moving commercial work, and the ability to prioritize and execute independently
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including translating legal concepts for non-lawyer audiences
- Genuine curiosity about AI tools and legal tech, and a willingness to use them to work more efficiently
- Experience with contract management systems such as Ironclad or similar is a plus
- Corporate governance, financing, or employment law experience is a plus
- Impeccable ethical standards

## About Retool

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Retool provides a platform for building, deploying, and managing custom internal software and AI applications by connecting to any database, API, or LLM.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: David Hsu (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Software Development, Enterprise Internal Tools, AI Application Platform
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise, SMB; specifically developers, IT teams, and business operators building internal software
- **Mission or purpose**: To enable companies to build production-ready internal software and AI applications dramatically faster, with enterprise-grade security and governance, so that domain experts and developers alike can solve critical business problems.

## Products & Services
- **Retool App Builder**: A low-code platform to build custom internal apps (dashboards, admin panels, CRUD tools) by connecting to databases and APIs. Type: SaaS/Platform.
- **Retool Workflows**: A visual automation tool to build and orchestrate complex business processes and backend logic. Type: SaaS/Platform.
- **Retool AI**: An AI-powered app generation capability that transforms natural language into production-ready applications, agents, and workflows, integrating with any LLM. Type: AI Feature/Platform.
- **Retool Mobile**: A solution to build and deploy internal mobile apps from the same Retool platform. Type: SaaS/Platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (last round was Series C).
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $5 million (as per LinkedIn company data); Total Funding of $141.3 million.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital (lead), Nat Friedman, John Collison, Daniel Gross. Customers include Amazon, Stripe, Brex, and Orangetheory Fitness.
- **Growth Signals**: Over 10,000 organizations use Retool. The company has automated over 100 million hours of work. It has 6 offices across the US and UK. Despite a recent headcount reduction (-11% YoY), it maintains a strong brand in the enterprise internal tools space and is aggressively pivoting into AI-powered app generation.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Enterprise Governance from Day One**: Unlike point solutions, apps built in Retool are production-ready and pass security reviews, eliminating the need for rebuilds or audit scrambles.
- **Deep Data Connectivity**: Securely connects to existing databases, APIs, and internal systems, ensuring apps run on real data with real permissions.
- **Unified Platform**: One platform to manage, orchestrate, and scale all internal apps, agents, and workflows, providing centralized visibility and governance for IT.
- **Trusted by Large Enterprises**: A strong customer base of high-profile companies (Amazon, Stripe, Brex) serves as a powerful validation of its enterprise readiness.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI as the Core Platform**: Retool is positioning itself as the "first enterprise AppGen platform," where AI is used to generate production-ready code from natural language, expanding the definition of "developer" to include analysts and operators.
- **Scaling Enterprise Features**: The company is focused on building out governance, security, and platform capabilities to support large-scale deployments across complex organizations.
- **International Expansion**: With offices in London and a German-speaking Sales Engineer role, Retool is actively expanding its presence in the European market.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: The company values ambition, intense curiosity, energy, and deep care. They emphasize moving fast, acting like an owner, and being both demanding and supportive.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid model with offices in San Francisco, New York, Salt Lake City, and London. The company believes great work happens when teams collaborate in person.
- **Product Impact**: Employees are close to the product and use Retool internally, giving them a direct voice in improving it. The mission is to enable a wider community of builders to create production-grade software safely.
- **Hiring Process**: Structured, with initial recruiter/hiring manager chats, a technical evaluation or practical exercise, and a final round of 3–5 interviews. The company aims for transparency and candidate preparation.
- **Employee Sentiment**: Employer rating of 3.4/5.0 (127 reviews). Strengths include Work-Life Balance (4.1) and Culture (3.7). Compensation (3.4) and Career (3.4) are areas for potential improvement.

## Sources
1. [retool.com](https://retool.com/)
2. [retool.com/careers](https://retool.com/careers)
3. [retool.com/about](https://retool.com/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/tryretool](https://www.linkedin.com/company/tryretool)
5. [jobs.gem.com/retool](https://jobs.gem.com/retool)

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