Senior Counsel, Litigation & Disputes

Summary of Relevant Experience

Summary of Experience – Senior Counsel, Litigation & Disputes @ Apollo.io

• In-house litigator who has served as lead counsel on complex disputes at multiemployer funds and a Fortune 500 insurer, managing outside counsel on strategy, scope, and spend while reporting directly to C-suite executives.
• ERISA and employment law counsel who has handled regulatory inquiries, plan governance matters, and compliance programs spanning HIPAA, labor relations, and M&A due diligence across heavily regulated industries.
• Litigation infrastructure builder who has developed and maintained legal hold procedures, escalation protocols, and compliance frameworks supporting large, multi-stakeholder organizations.
• JD/MBA attorney licensed in at least one U.S. state bar, with four years of progressive in-house experience translating complex legal risk into clear, actionable guidance for non-lawyer business stakeholders.

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Why this is a fit

This role centers on commercial litigation, data privacy disputes, and CCPA/GDPR exposure at a B2B SaaS company, while your background is concentrated in ERISA, employee benefits, and HIPAA compliance — the function overlaps only on the employment-dispute component, and the tech/data-privacy core is outside your demonstrated expertise. The seniority is a reasonable match (senior counsel level), but the gap between your benefits/regulatory specialty and the litigation-infrastructure ownership this role demands is a significant mismatch.

About the role

Apollo.io is the leading go-to-market solution for revenue teams, trusted by over 500,000 companies and millions of users globally, from rapidly growing startups to some of the world's largest enterprises. Founded in 2015, the company is one of the fastest growing companies in SaaS, raising approximately $250 million to date and valued at $1.6 billion. Apollo.io provides sales and marketing teams with easy access to verified contact data for over 210 million B2B contacts and 35 million companies worldwide, along with tools to engage and convert these contacts in one unified platform. By helping revenue professionals find the most accurate contact information and automating the outreach process, Apollo.io turns prospects into customers. Apollo raised a series D in 2023 and is backed by top-tier investors, including Sequoia Capital, Bain Capital Ventures, and more, and counts the former President and COO of Hubspot, JD Sherman, among its board members. About the Role Apollo is looking for a skilled litigator to own our litigation and disputes function — a high-judgment, high-visibility role at the center of our legal risk strategy. This person will manage Apollo's active litigation portfolio, build the infrastructure and processes that keep the company ahead of legal exposure, and serve as the primary in-house voice on disputes strategy reporting to the Senior Director, Risk & Regulatory. The right person is a seasoned litigator — comfortable owning matters end-to-end, managing outside counsel with a sharp eye on cost and strategy, and translating complex legal risk into business-ready guidance. This is not a narrow or reactive role: you will manage an active matter in the morning and brief a product team on emerging exposure in the afternoon. This role is remote; periodic in-person offsites are part of our culture. Key Responsibilities: Owning Apollo's litigation portfolio end-to-end — managing active disputes, pre-litigation demand letters, regulatory inquiries, and arbitrations across commercial, employment, and data-related matters Serving as primary in-house point of contact with outside litigation counsel: scoping engagements, controlling spend, driving strategy, and keeping leadership informed with clear and timely updates Building and maintaining litigation infrastructure: legal hold procedures, matter tracking, outside counsel guidelines, and internal escalation protocols Partnering with Privacy, Compliance, and Security teams on data retention guidelines Advising cross-functional stakeholders — Sales, Product, Engineering, People — on litigation risk, preservation obligations, and dispute-avoidance strategy in plain, actionable terms Identifying patterns across the litigation portfolio that signal systemic product, operational, or contractual risk and surfacing those insights proactively to leadership Supporting the broader legal team on commercial disputes arising from customer and vendor agreements, including working closely with Commercial Counsel on escalated matters Managing discovery workstreams, including coordinating with internal teams on document collection and review and managing e-discovery vendors where applicable Qualifications: Significant litigation experience, with a track record of managing complex commercial, data, or employment disputes as lead or co-lead counsel; in-house litigation experience strongly preferred Demonstrated ability to manage outside counsel effectively — scoping engagements, pushing back on strategy and spend, and maintaining appropriate in-house ownership of key decisions Comfort with matters at the intersection of litigation and data privacy, including consumer class actions, regulatory inquiries, and disputes involving data practices; familiarity with CCPA, GDPR, or similar frameworks is a plus Strong business judgment and ability to translate litigation risk into practical, risk-adjusted recommendations for non-lawyer stakeholders Excellent written and oral communicat