VP, Compliance & Risk

Location Details: USA Remote 

At GoDaddy the future of work looks different for each team. Some teams work in the office full-time; others have a hybrid arrangement (they work remotely some days and in the office some days) and some work entirely remotely. 

This position may be a hybrid or fully remote position, as decided by your manager. If designated as hybrid, you’ll divide your time between working remotely from your home and an office location, so you should live within commuting distance. If designated as remote, you’ll be working remotely from your home and may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or offsites. Your hiring manager can share more about this role’s hybrid or remote designation. 

This position is not eligible to be performed in Alaska, Mississippi, North Dakota, or the Virgin Islands. 

Join our team 

Reporting into GoDaddy’s Chief Strategy and Legal Officer, our Vice President, will help to shape our future growth, partnering closely with senior leaders across all of GoDaddy’s business units.  

What you'll get to do... 

• Lead legal risk functions, including litigation, labor and employment, compliance, and other areas, aligning legal strategies with business objectives. 

• Oversee the trust and safety function, ensuring that the team effectively manages and scales to manage a high volume of inbound requests with the utmost efficiency. 

• Develop and implement strategies for successful outcomes in litigation and other legal proceedings while minimizing risk and exposure for the company. 

• Foster deep and trusted relationships with key stakeholders, including the leadership team, to integrate business objectives with legal strategies. 

• Promote a business-friendly legal environment that properly balances risk mitigation and compliance while enabling the business to achieve its goals and objectives. 

• Create and maintain best-in-class operational frameworks, guidelines and playbooks to enable expedited decision-making and action as it relates to compliance at all levels (i.e., local, state, national, global). 

• Manage and lead a coordinated team of lawyers and trust and safety professionals, ensuring that global footprint is leveraged for optimal effectiveness and efficiency. 

• Collaborate cross-functionally within SEAL and across various other corporate functions to ensure cohesive and comprehensive strategy implementation. 

Your experience should include... 

• Juris Doctor (JD) from an accredited law school and membership in good standing with a state bar association. 

• 15+ years of legal experience, with a strong emphasis on litigation, labor law, compliance, and risk management. In-house experience at a technology company is highly preferred. 

• 5+ years of leadership experience managing global legal and trust & safety teams. 

• Proven track record in overseeing legal risk in areas such as litigation, employment law, and compliance while aligning strategies with business goals. 

• Deep understanding of trust and safety functions, with experience in scaling teams to handle high-volume requests efficiently. 

• Strong ability to create and implement strategic legal frameworks and operational playbooks. 

• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships with executive leadership and cross-functional teams. 

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex legal matters with a pragmatic, business-oriented approach. 

• Experience in working in a global environment, with knowledge of local, national, and international compliance regulations.

We've got your back...  We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave. GoDaddy’s benefits vary based on individual role and location and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture). Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs! Most importantly, come as you are and make your own way. 

About us...  GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online, making opportunity more inclusive for all. GoDaddy is the place people come to name their idea, build a professional website, attract customers, sell their products and services, and manage their work. Our mission is to give our customers the tools, insights, and people to transform their ideas and personal initiative into success. To learn more about the company, visit About Us. 

At GoDaddy, we know diverse teams build better products—period. Our people and culture reflect and celebrate that sense of diversity and inclusion in ideas, experiences and perspectives. But we also know that’s not enough to build true equity and belonging in our communities. That’s why we prioritize integrating diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging principles into the core of how we work every day—focusing not only on our employee experience, but also our customer experience and operations. It’s the best way to serve our mission of empowering entrepreneurs everywhere, and making opportunity more inclusive for all. To read more about these commitments, as well as our representation and pay equity data, check out our Diversity and Pay Parity annual report which can be found on our Diversity Careers page.

GoDaddy is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. GoDaddy will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements. Refer to our full EEO policy.

Our recruiting team is available to assist you in completing your application. If they could be helpful, please reach out to myrecruiter@godaddy.com. 

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