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# Senior Corporate Counsel at SPINS

- **Company:** SPINS
- **Location:** Chicago, IL
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://www.spins.com/work-at-spins/?gh_jid=8131322

## Job description

## Who We Are

For over 20 years, SPINS has been a leader in recognizing the transformative power of data in retail. We offer our clients cutting-edge tools to attract attention from a fast-growing segment within the Health & Wellness industry, the values-based consumer. Nearly half of shoppers prioritize products that emphasize wellness, social responsibility, and sustainable practices. SPINS retail consumer insights, analytics, and consulting services give our clients a competitive advantage to increase their share of this growing market. Our data is the most comprehensive and accurate in the industry, allowing clients to power AI models and machine learning algorithms that help them better understand and meet their customers' needs. At SPINS, behind all of our impressive data is our real differentiator, our people. We pride ourselves on our collaborative, flexible, and communicative culture that puts people at the center of everything we do.

Senior Corporate Counsel

Work Arrangement: This is a hybrid role. Team members are expected to work in the Chicago office a minimum of three days per week.

Summary

The Senior Counsel is an integral part of the SPINS legal team and a trusted business partner to the company. They operate with a high degree of autonomy and provide day-to-day advice and guidance to help the company meet its objectives through a deep understanding of the business, knowledge of the laws and regulations applicable to the business, sound judgment, and analytical skills. They work with the other members of the legal team to mitigate risk, protect the organization’s interests, and maintain its operations within the scope established by law and contractual obligations.

The Senior Counsel independently manages a broad range of legal matters, escalating issues appropriately for novel, high-risk, or strategic decisions. They provide hands-on counsel to colleagues throughout the business and work on a variety of legal matters, including the company’s general commercial practices, employment, IP, insurance, etc. They also lead and manage the development and implementation of processes, systems, and tools to enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the legal team. They support the development of practices, guidelines, and policies to ensure the company is compliant with relevant federal and state laws and regulations, as well as applicable contractual obligations.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

- Own and manage day-to-day commercial activities. This role holds primary responsibility for the company's commercial contracting function. Independently draft, review, negotiate, apply, and enforce commercial, data licensing, SaaS, and vendor agreements with minimal supervision. Own the negotiation of form commercial and data licensing agreements in support of sales and retailer recruiting. Manage contract interpretation, risk exposure, and deal structuring guidance provided to business stakeholders.
- Direct and oversee intellectual property matters. This role holds primary responsibility for protection and enforcement of company IP, including trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, and licensed data rights. Own negotiation of IP ownership, license scope, and derivative work provisions in commercial and vendor agreements. Serve as the accountable legal owner for IP clearance and infringement risk guidance to product, marketing, and engineering. Own coordination with outside IP counsel on application filings, prosecution, and enforcement matters.
- Drive and administer corporate processes and projects. Lead process improvement initiatives, including legal templates, contract workflows, and document management systems, and train internal teams on their use.  Contribute to ad hoc corporate projects requiring legal input.
- Support M&A due diligence, documentation, and integration. Conduct or coordinate legal due diligence for acquisition targets, including contract review. Draft and review transaction documentation, including disclosure schedules and ancillary agreements. Lead post-close integration workstreams for acquired entities, including contract migration to company paper, policy harmonization, and system/process consolidation across Legal, Sales, Finance, and Product.
- Provide support on privacy and data protection matters. Advise on U.S. and international privacy requirements. Draft and maintain privacy policies and documentation. Partner with IT, Security, and Product to identify and mitigate privacy and data protection risks, including employee and customer data.
- Support the development and maintenance of the company's AI governance framework, including AI use policies, vendor AI tool evaluations, and AI-specific contract provisions.
- Support internal and external policy development and implementation.
- Support outside counsel management, including litigation matters.
- Collaborate with HR on employee-related legal matters.
- Monitor legal and regulatory developments affecting company compliance, including privacy, data security, and commercial regulatory requirements.
- Foster a workplace with high ethical and legal standards, promoting respect, inclusion, confidentiality, and integrity.

Requirements:

Education & Experience

- 5+ years of legal experience in a corporate or law firm setting, including prior experience providing commercial transactions counsel in-house and/or at a law firm.
- Licensed to practice law in Illinois.
- J.D. from an accredited law school and Bachelor's degree.
- Experience drafting transactional documents, especially commercial, licensing, vendor, services, and other business-to-business agreements.
- Proven ability to manage high volumes of simultaneous projects efficiently, with minimal supervision.
- Able to work autonomously, issue spot, and resolve complex legal and business issues in a practical, business-focused manner.
- Experience translating creative or complex business ideas into clear, concise written work product.
- Able to work autonomously, issue spot, and resolve complex legal and business issues in a practical, business-focused manner, translating creative or complex business ideas into clear, concise written work product.
- Able to juggle competing priorities and adjust priorities as the business requires.
- Detail-oriented, well-organized, and able to manage time efficiently.
- Experience with business and legal technology tools (e.g., Salesforce).
- Able to maintain discretion and confidentiality.

The following is strongly preferred:

- Data licensing and SaaS contract experience a plus.
- In-house experience a plus.

Salary Range: $180,000-$190,000

#LI-AO1 #LI-Remote What SPINS Offers

We have enjoyed tremendous growth over the years and, as a leader in a fast-growing industry, we have no plans to slow down!  While all that growth brings excitement, it is also an opportunity for SPINS to show it values the health and wellness of its team members.

- We embrace hybrid work options so that you have the flexibility to create a work/life balance that actually works!
- Each employee is allotted paid time to use to volunteer with an organization of their choice and charitable donations are matched.
- Semi-annual company-wide employee survey that is used to shape company programs, perks, and culture.

The SPINS Way

- Direct – We communicate with clarity, honesty and respect in all situations and embrace opportunities to provide solution-oriented feedback.
- Determined – We are committed to overcoming all obstacles to achieve results. We adapt to change, seek opportunities to learn and rapidly translate that learning into action.
- Passionate – We go above and beyond to help our partners achieve their goals. We challenge assumptions and are comfortable forging new paths.
- Collaborative – We leave our egos at the door, believing that working together we will produce an outcome that’s greater than each individual contribution.

For details about the information SPINS’s collects about our applicants and how we use it, please see the SPINS Privacy Policy [here](https://www.spins.com/privacy-policy-2/#:~:text=We%20limit%20access%20to%20your,at%20privacy%40spins.com.).

## About SPINS

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: SPINS is a wellness-focused data and technology company that provides analytics, product intelligence, and retail activation solutions for the natural products industry.
- **Entity Type**: Private
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, USA
- **Founded**: 1997
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Consumer packaged goods (CPG) data analytics, retail technology, and market intelligence
- **Target customers**: B2B — retailers (conventional, natural, specialty, and eCommerce), CPG brands, and their partners
- **Mission**: To provide a source of truth and transparency so values-oriented consumers can connect with innovation they need; to promote health and wellness throughout the world by connecting shopper values to product innovation.

## Products & Services
- **SPINS Product Intelligence**: A database that translates product data into attributes (claims, certifications, positioning, computed data) to give the fullest view into what’s driving growth in-market.
- **SPINS Point-of-Sale (POS) Data**: Cross-channel visibility across conventional, natural, regional, specialty, and eCommerce retail data to identify growth drivers, eliminate blindspots, and benchmark against competitors.
- **SPINS Liftoff**: A full-service market intelligence platform designed as a partnership to help brands scale from kitchen startup to category captain, including support for getting on shelf at retailers like Kroger.
- **MikMak (acquired)**: An omnichannel activation and shopper engagement platform that expands SPINS’ capabilities into digital activation and eCommerce enablement.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Not publicly disclosed (revenue not published); company has been operating for over 25 years and is a recognized leader in natural products data
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly disclosed; key retail partners include Kroger and other major conventional, natural, and specialty retailers
- **Growth Signals**: Acquired MikMak in 2024 to expand into shopper engagement and omnichannel activation; continues to grow its data coverage across conventional, eCommerce, and natural channels; named a "Best Place to Work" year after year

## Competitive Advantages
- **Exclusive retail partnerships**: SPINS is the only provider that aligns natural, regional, conventional, and specialty retail data into a singular view, giving it unique cross-channel visibility.
- **Deep product attribute taxonomy**: The most granular product data in market, translating every attribute dimension across claims, certifications, positioning, and computed data into a common language for the industry.
- **Long-standing industry authority**: Over 25 years as the advocate and data backbone for the Natural Products Industry, creating the standard language used across the ecosystem.

## Strategic Focus
- **Omnichannel expansion**: Integrating the MikMak acquisition to bridge data insights with shopper engagement and digital activation.
- **Retail partnership growth**: Continuing to expand data coverage across conventional, eCommerce, and specialty channels.
- **Brand and retailer enablement**: Helping brands scale from kitchen startups to category captains through platforms like SPINS Liftoff.
- **Values-driven innovation**: Aligning product innovation with evolving consumer values (health, wellness, sustainability, transparency).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as inclusive, collaborative, and focused on making a positive impact. Employees are empowered to live values of health & wellness.
- **Work model**: Hybrid workspace (combination of remote and on-site); some roles are fully remote, others are in-office at the Chicago HQ or Montreal office.
- **DE&I**: Strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and a TEC (Teach, Engage, Connect) initiative.
- **Professional development**: One-on-one coaching, mentorship program, online learning platform, and in-person workshops.
- **Perks**: Generous PTO, 401K, health insurance, paternal leave, Summer Fridays, sabbatical, volunteer hours, wellness days, on-site gym access, massages, yoga classes, free snacks and drinks, commuter benefits, pet insurance, mobile phone discount, and employee discounts.
- **Recognition**: Named a "Best Place to Work" year after year.
- **Tech stack**: Engineering teams work with Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Google Analytics, and HubSpot.

## Sources
1. [spins.com](https://www.spins.com/)
2. [spins.com/about](https://www.spins.com/about/)
3. [spins.com/careers](https://www.spins.com/careers/)
4. [builtin.com/company/spins](https://builtin.com/company/spins)

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