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title: 'Litigation Counsel at Clipboard'
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# Litigation Counsel at Clipboard

- **Company:** Clipboard
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-31
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/clipboard/05fa099b-3a5e-4e3b-b1b5-7ba23b0db7a4

## Job description

## ABOUT CLIPBOARD

Our mission is to uplift as many communities as possible. We do this through our app-based marketplace that connects healthcare professionals with the workplaces that need amazing workers. This enables hundreds of thousands of people to achieve financial stability for themselves and their families while providing essential care to millions of people across the U.S.

Founded in 2016, we are a remote-first team of over 1,000 people building a top Y-Combinator company https://www.ycombinator.com/topcompanies/ and have been profitable since 2022. We’re the leader in Long-Term Care staffing and are rapidly expanding into Home Health, Hospitals, and more, meaning we have more work to do than people to do it, and are growing our team to support millions more people and their communities.

## ABOUT THE ROLE:

This isn’t the type of in-house counsel position where you will be siloed into a few narrow workstreams or deal with the same issue day after day. At Clipboard, you’ll be tasked with tackling novel legal challenges, flexing different muscles across various areas of law, and making high-impact decisions in a fast-moving environment. You’ll be tasked with building internal processes and systems, not simply managing a docket of individual cases.

You have both the sharp instincts of a high-stakes litigator and an entrepreneurial spirit. You crave a creative and collaborative—rather than purely adversarial—experience in the law. You are a skilled and concise writer and communicator, and excel at and enjoy detail-oriented tasks, fact-finding, and investigative work. You have a strong degree of curiosity and are particularly adept at identifying subtle clues which may be indicative of a much wider and important universe of issues you need to dive into. You can navigate fairly esoteric internal databases to collect and digest complex sets of data. You are eager to bring your experience with litigation and investigations to an in-house role on a small and supportive team that affords opportunity for professional growth. You look forward to channeling your skills as a litigator into supporting and advocating for a mission-driven and groundbreaking business. You embrace and are not daunted by ambiguity or a challenge, have a perennially positive attitude, and are eager to help build a legal department and support the business in a fast-paced environment. You enjoy taking the lead on projects, and naturally take the initiative to solve problems and improve and streamline systems and processes.

## RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Manage various litigation workstreams relating to independent contractor classification, including but not limited to matters relating to unemployment insurance claims and disputes with users of the Clipboard marketplace.
- Manage other litigation workstreams, including but not limited to professional negligence and data privacy matters.
- Partner with both internal and outside counsel on managing high-stakes litigation matters, including by drafting responsive pleadings, briefs, and other important documents.
- Work closely with outside counsel on developing and participating in the company’s eDiscovery strategy, including custodial document collection, review, and production.
- Manage the company’s third-party subpoena response strategy.
- Provide legal guidance to a wide range of cross function teams, including the Company’s product and operations teams.
- Support other legal workstreams depending on the needs of the team and company.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE 90 DAYS IN:

- You are deeply familiar with all pending litigation and investigation matters and have taken over leadership of at least one high-stakes matter, including communicating and coordinating with outside counsel and internal stakeholders.
- You have a deep understanding of the company’s internal databases and can quickly collect and analyze complex sets of data, both for the purposes of developing proactive risk mitigation strategies and responding to high-stakes litigation document requests.
- You fully own the unemployment response workstream, third-party subpoena response process, and a docket of other litigation matters, including a subset of the company’s medical malpractice matters, and can operate completely independently on these fronts with minimal supervision.
- In at least one litigation matter, you worked with outside counsel to develop an eDiscovery plan that minimizes the costs related to custodial document collection and review while still meeting our discovery obligations.
- You proactively and quickly jump in to respond to requests for legal guidance from other business functions, and provide high quality legal advice that incorporates the risk tolerance of the business.
- You are contributing to legal strategy decisions made by the Head of Legal.

## NEED TO HAVE:

- JD with at least 5 years of experience
- Bias toward action and solving (not just spotting) problems
- Ability to take ownership of your work and manage projects independently
- Excellent communication and writing abilities
- Comfort and skill in navigating complexity and ambiguity, and working on a leanly staffed team
- Willingness to quickly dive into new and “unfamiliar” legal issues
- Ability to work under pressure and autonomously, and meet tight deadlines
- Agility and flexibility to take on new tasks and responsibilities when necessary to support the business and legal team’s needs in a fast-moving, rapidly scaling, and dynamic tech company
- Willingness and ability to engage with and interpret data, especially from unfamiliar sources

## NICE TO HAVE:

- Experience handling arbitrations and class actions
- Experience with eDiscovery issues, including large-scale custodial data collection, review, and production
- Clerkship experience
- Government experience
- Experience working cross-culturally and with diverse, global teams

## INTERVIEW PROCESS:

- Application Review
- Case Study
- Case Interview with a member of our Legal team
- Hiring Manager interview with our Head of Legal
- Executive Interview with our Co-CEO

## SALARY:

The base salary range for this position is $190,000 - $220,000. This role will also be eligible for discretionary annual bonus (paid on a quarterly basis) and/or equity compensation.

Quick Note on Scammers:

Clipboard would never ask you for money or your bank details to participate in our hiring process. Report any scammers impersonating the Clipboard hiring team members here https://forms.gle/SyGaxHFbon7Hg9fW6.

## About Clipboard

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Clipboard is a remote-first labor marketplace that connects healthcare and dental professionals with workplaces needing to fill shifts.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, backed by Sequoia Capital and Y-Combinator)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Wei Deng (Founder and Co-CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Healthcare staffing / Labor marketplace / Internet marketplace platforms
- **Target customers**: B2B (healthcare facilities, long-term care homes, hospitals, dental clinics, childcare centers) and B2C (healthcare workers, CNAs, nurses, hygienists)
- **Mission statement**: "Uplift as many communities as possible" by connecting healthcare professionals with workplaces that need workers, helping people achieve financial stability while providing essential care.

## Products & Services
- **Clipboard Marketplace**: An app-based platform where workplaces post open shifts and workers browse and claim them. Covers shift posting, scheduling, worker matching, documentation, and payment. Features include call-off coverage (automatic replacement if a worker cancels), Instant Pay, and worker vetting.
- **Built For** (Industry Verticals): Long-Term Care, Hospitals, Home Health & Hospice, Dental Care, Childcare.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: $1.3 Billion (latest reported valuation)
- **Key Metric**: Profitable since 2022 (with heavy reinvestment in growth). Total funding raised: $94.1 million.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sequoia Capital, IVP, Y-Combinator.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Over 9 million shifts covered across healthcare industries.
    - Serves over 6,500 workplaces and 1 million workers across the U.S.
    - 6,500 communities served.
    - 125,000 workers have earned over $1,000 on the platform.
    - 95% of shifts get staffed when posted a day in advance; 85% are filled by a professional the workplace has worked with before.
    - Rapidly expanding into Home Health, Hospitals, and other verticals beyond their leadership position in Long-Term Care.
    - Headcount of 3,606 employees with 2.7% monthly growth and a 34% monthly increase in job postings.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Market Leadership**: Dominant player in Long-Term Care staffing in the U.S.
- **High Fill Rate & Retention**: 95% fill rate for shifts posted a day in advance and 85% of shifts filled by known workers create a strong network effect and reliability for facilities.
- **Profitable Business Model**: Profitable since 2022, indicating a sustainable unit economy while still reinvesting heavily in growth.
- **Full Vertical Integration**: Handles the entire workflow from posting and scheduling to payment and compliance, reducing administrative burden for facilities.
- **Founder-Market Fit**: Founder Wei Deng got her own CNA certification to deeply understand the customer experience, fostering a culture of extreme customer empathy.

## Strategic Focus
- **Vertical Expansion**: Moving beyond its stronghold in Long-Term Care into adjacent high-need verticals like Hospitals, Home Health & Hospice, Dental Care, and Childcare.
- **Product & Automation**: Investing in automation to reduce friction for both facilities and workers (e.g., automatic call-off coverage, streamlined scheduling).
- **Geographic Growth**: Expanding its network of workers and facilities across more communities in the U.S.
- **Talent Acquisition**: Aggressively hiring across engineering, sales, and operations to fuel growth (63 active job postings).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as "remote first, high trust, and written." The team thrives on autonomy, makes decisions in live documents, and moves fast. Values include "Customer-First Mindset," "Extreme Ownership," "Increasingly High Standards," "Humility," and "Think from First Principles."
- **Work Model**: Remote-first with physical offices in Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle.
- **Impact**: Employees directly contribute to solving critical staffing shortages in healthcare, helping workers achieve financial stability and ensuring patients receive care.
- **Financial Health**: Profitable and growing, backed by top-tier investors (Sequoia, YC), providing job stability.
- **Growth Opportunities**: Rapidly scaling company (3,600+ employees, growing) with a wide range of open roles across the organization.

## Sources
1. [clipboardworks.com](https://www.clipboardworks.com/careers)
2. [clipboardworks.com](https://www.clipboardworks.com/about)
3. [clipboardworks.com](https://www.clipboardworks.com/)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/clipboard)

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