Bungalow is the largest and fastest-growing roommate living company in the United States. We’re on a mission to create a world where everyone can truly feel at home, wherever they want to live.
We work with homeowners across the US to take the hassle out of property management and maximize what they earn so we can provide renters with the best homes the market has to offer.
And we know it can be challenging living with roommates, but we believe it’s worth it. We’re removing the hassle from moving and everyday living, and providing an affordable product that helps people live in the cities where they have better access to opportunity.
Join our community! Working with and reporting to our General Counsel, you will provide day-to-day advice to the business and operations teams on customer service, risk management, and dispute resolution issues related to our real estate portfolio, review and draft real estate agreements and commercial contracts and generally partner with our General Counsel on all things legal. You will be among the first legal hires on this team. This role can be remote anywhere in the United States.
#LI-Remote
What you'll do:
- Provide advice on real estate law issues including local housing and zoning regulations.
- Draft, review and negotiate real estate agreements and commercial contracts.
- Perform due diligence in connection with real estate and other corporate transactions.
- Maintain and manage legal files, templates, and processes.
- Develop and improve internal processes for collaboration with cross-functional partners, including operations.
- Manage our trademark and patent applications in the U.S. and abroad.
- Provide advice on employment, corporate law, and other issues.
Who you are:
- Graduate of an ABA-accredited law school.
- Member of at least 1 U.S. State Bar (preferably California), with good standing
- 2+ years of major law firm work with a focus on real estate transactions.
- Strong Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel skills.
- Excellent judgment and communication skills, with strong attention to detail.
- Action and results-oriented, with the ability to adapt quickly.
- Ability to prioritize and manage workloads to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Growth-minded, collaborative, and able to work on a variety of legal matters outside of immediate area of substantive expertise.
- Belief in Bungalow’s mission.
Nice to have:
- Experience with landlord/tenant legal issues.
- Experience with commercial contracts and technology, licensing, and intellectual property agreements.
- Experience with corporate law and corporate governance matters.
- Experience with technology companies and/or startup organizations.
What we value:
- Build better. Always challenge the status quo, constantly look for ways to improve across the entire organization.
- Focus on impact. Ruthlessly prioritize and continue to ask: "Does it scale?"
- Community first. We always look for ways to make our applicants, customers, and teammates feel more at home. We are the steady & trusted source for members new and old.
- Feedback obsessed. We are constantly looking for feedback (from customers & teammates) in order to find ways to improve our experience across all facets of the organization. We never settle for the status quo, we consistently drive progress and growth by challenging our mindset, and iterating our processes.
- Move fast. We are less afraid of making mistakes than we are of losing opportunities by moving too slowly. We are a culture of builders & innovators.
- Be an owner. You are the expert & ruler of your domain. If you see something broken, fix it or work with the team to make sure we are always at our best. Always look for ways to improve organizationally and personally.
More about our (FTE) Benefits
Whether you work in an office or a distributed team, Bungalow is highly collaborative and yes, fun! To support you at work (and play) we offer some fantastic perks: generous time off to relax and recharge, beautiful offices, commuter benefits, team happy hours and continuous learning! Now the ultra important stuff: we also have world-class healthcare, vision and dental insurance- we have your back!
Applicant Notice
The California Consumer Privacy Policy Act (the "CCPA") obligates covered businesses to disclose to consumers (including employees and job applicants), at or before the point of collecting personal information ("PI"), the categories of PI to be collected and the purposes for which the categories of PI shall be used.
In the course of the job application process, we may collect the following categories of PI for the purposes of evaluating you as a job applicant:
- Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, driver’s license number, passport number, social security number, or other similar identifiers;
- Professional, education, or employment-related information;
- Other information you voluntarily provide to us, including, without limitation, demographic information, benefits information, or family and dependent information.
Currently, we are implementing procedures in order to reduce the risk of spreading the COVID-19 virus in and throughout the workplace. Therefore, we are notifying you that if you visit our physical offices and facilities for an interview, we also may collect the following additional category of PI: medical and health information. Specifically, we may collect your body temperature along with information about whether you have or display certain symptoms such as fatigue, cough, sneezing, aches and pains, runny or stuffy nose, sore throat, diarrhea, headaches, or shortness of breath, whether you have recently been in close contact with anyone who has exhibited any of these symptoms, and whether you have recently been in contact with anyone who has tested positive for COVID-19.
We will not collect any additional categories of personal information or use your personal information collected for any other purpose without providing you with additional notice consistent with the CCPA.