Corporate Counsel

<div class="content-intro"><p>We're so happy you're here! Thank you for checking our job out and we hope to have the chance to meet you in our interview process!</p></div><h2><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">About the role</span></h2> <p>Grüns is one of the fastest-growing consumer brands in the country, now part of Unilever's Wellbeing Collective, and we're hiring our second lawyer. You'll work directly with — and be mentored by—our General Counsel, a former Morrison &amp; Foerster partner with more than a decade in consumer products, work alongside the principals and operators who built the company and are taking it to the next level, and you'll see more legal terrain in a year than many lawyers see in their entire careers: national retailer deals, creator and sponsorship agreements, litigation, advertising enforcement, brand protection, sweepstakes, privacy, IP, and whatever tomorrow brings. This role owns the day-to-day legal work that keeps the business moving — contracts, litigation management, and advertising enforcement. You'll negotiate directly with counterparties, sit with Marketing, Retail, Ops, People, and Customer Experience while decisions get made, and build the systems a fast-moving legal function needs (and improve the ones that already exist). This seat is built to grow with the person in it. And you won't be doing it alone: alongside the Grüns seat you'll have a working relationship with Unilever's commercial contracting, litigation, IP, privacy, and employment teams and the chance to partner with Unilever Wellbeing Legal — the ownership and pace of a company that's still building, with the depth and network of one of the world's largest consumer companies within reach.</p> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>This role is part of our remote HQ! </strong>We have a fully remote, high-trust work environment - and also come together on a biannual basis for amazing off-sites where we can connect IRL.&nbsp;</span></p> <h2><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Why this role:&nbsp;</span></h2> <ul> <li>Breadth you can't get in most legal roles: contracts, litigation, IP, marketing, privacy, and employment in one seat, with real ownership of each</li> <li>Mentorship from a General Counsel who built this function from scratch and wants you to grow into more</li> <li>The best of both worlds: the pace, ownership, and direct access to business leaders of a company that's still building, with Unilever's platform, specialist depth, and global legal network behind it</li> <li>Authority from day one: you own your matters and negotiate directly with counterparties</li> <li>A bigger legal team than our headcount suggests: Unilever colleagues in commercial contracting, litigation, IP, privacy, and employment, plus Unilever Wellbeing Legal, to learn from, partner with, and call on</li> <li>Evaluated on impact, not hours: no billable hours and no timesheets — you're measured on your judgment, efficiency, productivity, and the value you add to the business</li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This is not a typical legal job, and it isn't for everyone. It's for a lawyer who is thirsting for more—more responsibility, more range, more direct impact—earlier than most legal careers will offer it. If that's you, we'd like to meet you.</span></p> <h2><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I</span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">n this role, you will:</span></h2> <ul> <li>Own commercial contract review end to end: intake, first-turn redlines, negotiation with counterparties, practical advice to the business team, and execution across vendor, marketing and creator partnership, agency, and retailer agreements — partnering with Unilever's commercial contracting team on agreements that run through Unilever's templates and approval processes</li> <li>Run litigation management: litigation holds and preservation, discovery and subpoena coordination with outside counsel and Unilever's global litigation team, a live matter and budget tracker, and regular reporting to the General Counsel and, on contentious matters, to Unilever Litigation</li> <li>Lead advertising enforcement and brand protection: draft cease-and-desist and demand letters when competitors' advertising is false or misleading, track responses, recommend when a filing or challenge is warranted, and support trademark and anti-counterfeiting efforts</li> <li>Build the systems that make Legal faster and smarter: a precedent and template library, negotiation playbooks with fallback positions and approval matrices, a contract repository with key terms tagged, matter and budget tracking, and guidelines for how the legal function uses AI</li> <li>Handle recurring marketing and promotions work — customizing sweepstakes and giveaway rules, standard consent and opt-in language, releases — within the framework the General Counsel and Regulatory set</li> <li>Coordinate with Unilever's legal teams: work with Unilever's specialist teams (IP, privacy, employment, litigation) and Unilever Wellbeing legal team when a matter requires their review or can benefit from their support, and help build shared ways of working between the Grüns and Unilever Wellbeing legal teams</li> <li>Own legal operations: run intake and prioritization so the business always knows where its requests stand, and manage outside counsel budgets and invoice</li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">We're looking for someone who:</span></h2> <ul> <li>Holds a JD and an active bar license in good standing in at least one US jurisdiction, and—if they live in a state where they aren't admitted — is eligible to register there as in-house counsel<br>Has roughly 3-4 years of post-JD experience—at a firm, in-house, at a fund, in government, or somewhere less traditional—and has negotiated commercial contracts start to finish across vendor, SaaS, marketing, and/or retailer agreements.</li> <li>Exercises judgment on risk in fast-moving, high-stakes situations, and has been handed a problem outside their core area and figured it out rather than waiting to be told how</li> <li>Ideally has some litigation exposure: has drafted or managed a hold, handled discovery or subpoena logistics, or run point with outside counsel on a matter (a plus, not required)</li> <li>Has demonstrated entrepreneurial energy— through an operating or sales role, a business degree or MBA, a startup or a family business, or something else outside the straight line from school to practice (a plus, not required)</li> <li>Innovates, including through fluent and thoughtful AI use, with a deep understanding of how to verify what it produces every time, and a proactive approach to protecting confidential and privileged information in a rapidly changing environment</li> <li>Has experience in CPG, DTC, supplements, food and beverage, or advertising law (strongly preferred)</li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Approach to the role:</span></h2> <ul> <li>Exceptionally organized: every open matter has an owner, a next step, and a status the requester can check without having to ask; this is a requirement, not a preference — you'll carry dozens of matters at once</li> <li>Takes initiative: sees what needs doing and starts; brings the General Counsel a proposed answer alongside the question when escalating; and is excited to build the templates, systems, and skills that make the function better over time</li> <li>Comfortable being handed something unfamiliar: reads the statute, asks the right person, uses the right tools for education and a first pass, and gets to an informed answer</li> <li>Calibrates effort to the deal, the counterparty, and the negotiating dynamics; knows a small sponsorship doesn't need the same treatment as a major supply agreement, and aims for the best result for the business under the circumstances</li> <li>Understands margin, subscription economics, and what the team is actually trying to accomplish, and can translate that into a clear recommendation</li> </ul> <h2><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Compensation &amp; Benefits:</strong></span></h2> <p data-start="4181" data-end="4598">At Grüns, we're committed to providing a competitive total compensation package — grounded in market data that considers our size, stage, industry, and location. For this role, the base salary range is <strong>$150,000-$185,000&nbsp;plus bonus </strong>depending on experience, paired with a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the well-being and growth of our team.</p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>A bit about us...</strong></p> <p>At Grüns, we believe that foundational nutrition should be simple and convenient for everyone. We're dedicated to bringing comprehensive and real nutrition to you through our gummies, formulated from 60 nutrient-dense and whole-food ingredients. Simply enjoy a grab-and-go snack pack of gummies daily whenever fits best in your schedule and wherever life takes you.</p> <p>Like you, we were disappointed. There’s an infinite number of “nutrition” companies, all focused on what’s best for them — not what’s best for you. Hundreds of products to sell you on, low-quality ingredients, and small nutrient doses. We’ve seen it all.</p> <p>So we decided it was time to fix it. No more choking on and popping pills like a pharmacy. No more clean-up and disgust from gross powders. And no more cobbling together handfuls to dozens of supplements. Grüns is comprehensive nutrition, made convenient and delicious.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>What we care about...</strong></p> <p><strong>Be the Best:&nbsp;</strong>We hold ourselves, our teams, and our partners to an incredibly high standard - and we raise the bar constantly. "We've never done this before" isn't an excuse here. It's an invitation.</p> <p><strong>Own It:&nbsp;</strong>We act like our name is on the door. That means taking complete ownership of outcomes, collaborating deeply, working through roadblocks - not around them - and never waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Great owners are great partners.</p> <p><strong>Drive Impact, Urgently:&nbsp;</strong>We measure impact, not effort. We work smart and hard, move fast, and use every tool at our disposal - including AI - to focus our energy where it matters most.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Compensation &amp; Perks:</strong></p> <p>For every role, we aim to have highly competitive compensation and opportunity for impact and career growth.</p> <p>Everyone at Grüns works hard, but we believe in wellness and balance too. We have super strong benefits coverage -- for you and your family, generous PTO, free Grüns, and a few more perks centered around health and well-being that we can't wait to tell you about!</p></div>