<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 & 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. </span></p> <h2><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Why this role: </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></