Legal Director

At Corporate Tools, we believe legal strategy shouldn’t feel like a speed bump—it should drive the vehicle. We’re looking for a Legal Director who sees law not as paperwork, but as gameplay. Someone who knows how to navigate regulations with a machete in one hand and a whiteboard marker in the other. If you’re tired of the suits, the jargon, and the snail-paced “let’s circle back” culture, we built this job for you.

You’ll lead a growing team of talented attorneys in a company that moves fast, breaks boring rules, and builds actual things (yes, including software, services, and a lot of companies). You’ll own legal strategy across M&A, global expansion, government contracts, IP, real estate, and the occasional delightful legal oddity. You’ll report directly to the COO and work closely with execs across every department.

We need someone sharp, experienced, and deeply competent—but also weird enough to hang. This isn’t a corporate gig pretending to be cool. It’s a genuinely fun, radically human workplace doing big, ambitious things, and we want a legal leader who gets that.

This position is coded as ‘Hybrid,’ meaning occasional remote work is available. Ideally, the candidate will be located in the Spokane–Coeur d’Alene metro area, but we’re open to candidates in surrounding communities within reasonable commuting distance. The expectation is that the person in this role will work consistently from our Post Falls, ID or Spokane, WA office to stay closely connected with local executive teams and actively participate in in-person meetings.

Wage:

Up to $200,000/year + relocation package.

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental and vision for employees
• Annual review with raise option
• 22 days Paid Time Off accrued annually, and 4 holidays
  • After 3 years, PTO increases to 29 days. Employees transition to flexible time off after 5 years with the company—not accrued, not capped, take time off when you want
  • The 4 holidays are: New Year’s Day, Fourth of July, Thanksgiving, and Christmas Day
• Up to 6% company matching 401(k) with no vesting period
• Quarterly allowance
  • Use to make your remote work set up more comfortable, for continuing education classes, a plant for your desk, coffee for your coworker, a massage for yourself... really, whatever
• Open concept office with friendly coworkers
• Creative environment where you can make a difference
• No dumb benefits like free dog walking on the weekends that snobby hipster places have to make you feel cool, but mathematically won't cost the company much money because you won't use it
• Trail Mix Bar --- oh yeah

Responsibilities:

• Drive the legal where you want it to go
• Enhance our SaaS model, drive multiple acquisitions a year, help create the business strategy that is going to squash the competition
• Expand, grow, let's take this thing internationally eventually
• Level up! The team, yourself, the company. You'll be helping driving the ship to make us the legal team people never knew existed
• Be nimble and quick on your feet when legal changes that will impact our business are coming. Plan for this
• Liaise, integrate, relate, or however it works with the Government, let's get this going here
• Real Estate? Yes! Negotiate, contract, all that legal jazz
• Think past compliance to be more business minded and street smart when it comes to our legal
• Think through IP Portfolio management, put a plan in place, execute!
• Manage direct and indirect legal processes and communications as they arise
• Be able to communicate effectively your plans easily to team members outside of the legal space
• Avoid analysis paralysis

Additional Benefits:

• Company sponsored CLE’s to keep your law skills sharp

Requirements:

• Law degree with 10+ years of progressive legal experience
• Experience being the legal decision maker in regards to business decisions

You are tired of feeling like you are a cog in the a machine that just keeps turning for the sake of turning, and you want to be in a position that drives positive impact. We aren’t a company of cogs, we are company of dynamic ideation and being able to drive it to fruition. If you’re looking for that type of environment you might have just found the right place. Are we perfect? No. However, we are a culture of always finding ways of making things better, so where there is improvement to be made, we want to make it. It’s called having a product mindset, and it’s what we do.You also like an interesting challenge and can find the natural way forward through your street smarts. You hear it a lot here, but we want you to use your street smarts and outwit those who rely too heavily on theory without actual practice. Those people tend to find themselves in constant states of analysis paralysis, and it’s why you probably left a typical law firm in the past. You were tired of trying to convince people people of the right way forward and running into walls and red tape, so you ventured out to find something different, and honestly it’s probably why you are reading this… and we hope we are what you are looking for.

At the end of the day. business is war. Business is a sport. Business is our sport. Legal should be your sport. We compete with public company giants, but we outmaneuver and outsmart them every day. Does Von Clause mean anything to you? We primarily specialize in the flank. If that means something more than a steak to you….. lets go!