--- title: 'Paralegal at Topsort' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/paralegal-topsort-somerville-5rpk0tv254kr' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-21' --- # Paralegal at Topsort - **Company:** Topsort - **Location:** Somerville, MA - **Posted:** 2026-10-21 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-21 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/topsort/jobs/5459491008 ## Job description We're quickly growing and super excited for you to join us! ## About Topsort Topsort is a global Commerce AI company making advanced advertising and AI-powered technology accessible to businesses of all sizes. Our technology helps retailers and marketplaces grow through smarter advertising, real-time auctions, and intelligent product discovery. With a presence in 40+ countries and a growing international team, we're building the technology behind the next generation of commerce. What Is This Role Like? We're hiring a Paralegal to help keep Topsort’s legal operations running smoothly, with accuracy, responsiveness, and sound judgment as we grow internationally. You'll work closely with our attorney to support commercial contracting, compliance, and corporate matters, improve legal workflows, and independently manage routine requests within approved guidelines. ## What You'll Own - Commercial Contracts: Review incoming contracts, flag deviations for attorney review, and prepare routine agreements using approved templates. Manage standard NDAs and coordinate contracts through signature. - Business Support: Coordinate responses to customer questionnaires, RFPs, and vendor onboarding with relevant teams, and develop resources for common legal questions. - Legal Operations: Manage legal intake, contract records, templates, and playbooks. Use approved tools, AI, and automation where appropriate to improve workflows while protecting confidential information. - Compliance & Research: Track legal and compliance deadlines, prepare policy drafts for attorney review, and summarize relevant legal and regulatory developments. - Corporate Coordination: Support international entity management, notarization and apostille processes, and outside counsel coordination, including invoices and legal spend. - Continuity & Escalation: Keep routine requests and pending matters moving during attorney absences, working within approved guidelines and escalating issues that require legal judgment. What Success Looks Like - Reliable Contract Execution: Routine agreements move efficiently from intake to signature, with complete information, accurate documentation, and deviations surfaced before execution. - Deadline & Record Accuracy: Renewals, filings, and compliance obligations are visible and tracked, with timely follow-up and accessible, up-to-date records. - Efficient Legal Support: Requests have clear priorities, owners, and next steps. Templates, playbooks, and self-serve resources help teams resolve common needs and reduce repetitive work. - Sound Judgment & Continuity: Routine matters progress within approved boundaries, issues requiring attorney review are escalated with useful context, and pending work remains organized during absences. ## What You'll Bring Don't check every box? We'd still love to hear from you. We value curiosity, strong judgment, and people who take ownership of results: - Relevant Experience: 2+ years of paralegal experience, ideally in-house or in commercial or corporate law. - Paralegal Education: A paralegal certificate or degree from an ABA-approved program.. - Commercial Contract Knowledge: Familiarity with common contract terms and experience reviewing and preparing documents using templates and established guidelines. - Tools & Systems: Experience with e-signature platforms such as DocuSign and contract or matter management tools, along with strong proficiency in Microsoft Office and/or Google Workspace. - Organization & Accuracy: The ability to manage multiple matters and deadlines while catching missing information, inconsistencies, and document errors. - Judgment & Discretion: Confidence handling routine matters independently, recognizing when to escalate, and protecting sensitive company, commercial, and employee information. - Communication & Ownership: Clear, concise writing, professional stakeholder communication, proactive follow-through, and the ability to learn new processes quickly. Nice To Have: - Experience in technology or SaaS companies. - Strong written and spoken Spanish, particularly for reviewing documents and communicating with colleagues, counterparties, and outside counsel. - Familiarity with international corporate matters, notarization, and apostille processes. Who Thrives Here We set a high bar because the work we do matter. You'll thrive here if you: - Ownership & Quality: You take responsibility for what you build, write production-ready code, and leave systems better than you found them. - Judgment & Decision-Making: You make thoughtful decisions, communicate trade-offs openly, and balance speed with quality and long-term impact. - Collaboration & Communication: You share knowledge, communicate openly, and work effectively across teams to solve complex challenges. - Curiosity & Attention to Detail: You care about the details, continuously improve your skills, and explore new technologies with a critical mindset. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and to foster a workplace where diversity is valued and celebrated. We believe that diverse perspectives and experiences strengthen our teams and drive better outcomes. We respect and value any race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, caste, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, marital status, or military service. Do you sound like the right fit? Let's dive right in! ## About Topsort ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Topsort provides AI-powered, privacy-first retail media infrastructure that enables marketplaces, retailers, and commerce platforms to launch and scale monetization through real-time auctions, sponsored listings, display, offsite, and in-store advertising. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series A, post-money valuation $150M as of March 2024) - **Headquarters**: Palo Alto, California, United States - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Not publicly available (company spokesperson identified as "Ye" in media) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Retail media infrastructure, ad tech, commerce monetization, AI-powered advertising - **Target customers**: B2B – marketplaces, retailers, delivery apps, travel platforms, and commerce networks (both enterprise and SMB) - **Mission or purpose statement**: "Make world-class monetization accessible to everyone" by bringing the same auction and AI-driven advertising infrastructure used by the largest marketplaces to every commerce platform. ## Products & Services - **T-Engine (Auction & Ranking Engine)**: High-performance, edge-deployed auction infrastructure for large-scale commerce media – sub-5ms p99 latency, 99.99% uptime SLA. - **Toptimize (AI Optimization Layer)**: Improves yield, pacing, ROAS, and relevance on top of existing ad stacks. - **T-Brain (Commerce Intelligence)**: Uses catalog, auction, campaign, and performance data to power smarter monetization and ranking. - **Data Genie (Retail Media Analytics)**: Unifies reporting, insights, benchmarking, and performance analysis. - **Tomi (AI Ad Ops Agent)**: Conversational AI agent for launching and managing retail media campaigns. - **Sponsored Listings**: Auction-based product promotion in search, category, and discovery surfaces. - **Sponsored Brands**: Brand-level advertising across commerce surfaces. - **Display & Banners**: Programmatic display advertising. - **In-Store Media**: Extends retail media into physical store environments. - **Sponsored Prompts**: Agentic ad formats for AI-native commerce (e.g., within conversational shopping experiences). - **BIDLESS™**: Autobidding technology for automated campaign optimization. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: $150 million post-money (Series A, March 2024); previously $110 million post-money (seed round, 2022) - **Key Metric**: Total funding raised – $28.6 million ($8M seed in 2022, $20M Series A in 2024) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Upload Ventures (lead Series A), Quiet Capital, Pear Ventures - **Growth Signals**: 120+ employees across 4 continents; 40+ countries served; billions of commerce decisions processed; <5ms auction latency; 99.99% uptime; expanded into offsite and in-store media in 2023–2025; launched new ad formats (Sponsored Brands, Video Ads, Sponsored Prompts) and AI agents (Tomi, Data Genie). ## Competitive Advantages - **Privacy-first approach**: Built for a post-cookie world with a Cleanroom feature that combines data without compromising user privacy. - **AI-native infrastructure**: Auctions, relevance, measurement, and optimization are designed for AI-driven commerce (including agentic shopping). - **Omnichannel coverage**: Supports search, category, display, offsite, in-store, and emerging AI prompt surfaces from a single API. - **Low latency at global scale**: Edge-deployed auction engine with sub-5ms p99 latency across nine regions. - **Accessibility**: Democratizes advanced monetization technology previously limited to giants like Amazon, making it available to smaller marketplaces and retailers. ## Strategic Focus - **AI-native commerce**: Expanding monetization formats for agentic and conversational shopping experiences (e.g., Sponsored Prompts). - **Global expansion**: Growing presence across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Latin America. - **Product breadth**: Continuing to add ad formats (video, in-store, offsite) and AI-powered automation (Tomi, Data Genie, Toptimize). - **Post-cookie leadership**: Positioning as the clean, privacy-compliant alternative for retail media. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Described as "smart, driven, and from all over the globe" – a team building infrastructure that powers the next generation of commerce. - **Engineering focus**: Engineers work on high-scale auction systems, AI/ML optimization, distributed systems, and real-time data pipelines. - **Global team**: Offices in Palo Alto (HQ), Munich, Melbourne, Santiago, and Barcelona; remote-friendly culture implied by distributed team. - **Growth trajectory**: Fast-growing startup (Series A, 120+ employees) with a clear product-market fit in a hot sector (retail media). - **Impact**: Opportunity to build the underlying monetization infrastructure for hundreds of commerce platforms, processing billions of decisions. ## Sources 1. [Topsort Website](https://www.topsort.com/) 2. [Topsort About Page](https://www.topsort.com/about) 3. [Topsort Careers (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/topsort) 4. [Topsort LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/topsort) 5. 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