Sr. Paralegal

Job Description

Sr. Paralegal | Poshmark

The Tone:
This is a full-time Sr. Paralegal role at Poshmark, located in Redwood City, CA, requiring a hybrid schedule of 3 days in the office per week. Poshmark operates as the leading fashion marketplace, a vibrant community of 165 million members where style comes alive through discovery and human connection. This role is a key partner on the Legal team, reporting directly to the Head of Legal, and is crucial for organizing and supporting pre-litigation and litigation matters, responding to essential information requests, and streamlining legal operations. The Sr. Paralegal will ensure the company’s continuous and compliant functioning within a collaborative environment, making shopping and selling simple, joyful, and personal for the community.

The TL;DR
• Role: Mid-Career
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid, Redwood City, CA

• Team: Legal team, reporting to the Head of Legal.
• Mission: This person will organize and support legal matters, respond to information requests, and streamline legal operations.
• Tech Stack: AI and automation tools

What You’ll Actually Do
• Litigation and Law Enforcement Management: Organize and support pre-litigation and litigation matters, including managing legal holds, document collection, and deadline tracking, while also leading responses to law enforcement requests such as subpoenas and search warrants.
• Legal Operations and Intake: Manage the Legal team’s intake process, triage the legal inbox, route inquiries, and ensure accurate maintenance of legal records and matter management tools, generating operational reports as needed.
• Compliance and Process Improvement: Support regulatory compliance programs, including payments compliance initiatives, and maintain/update legal playbooks and standard operating procedures (SOPs), leveraging AI and automation to improve efficiency.
• External Counsel and Regulatory Support: Oversee vendor and outside counsel onboarding and fee tracking, and support responses to governmental or regulatory authorities by conducting research, drafting documents, and tracking deadlines.
• General Legal Workstream Support: Provide general support across other legal workstreams as needed, including subsidiary management and transactional matters, to align with the Legal team’s operational goals.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution. This role requires mid-career paralegal experience in supporting legal operations.
• Experience: 4+ years of administrative and paralegal experience at a law firm or in-house legal department, with specific experience supporting litigation, law enforcement requests, and/or regulatory compliance matters.
• Skills: Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, excellent written and verbal communication, and a proactive, solutions-oriented mindset with the ability to operate independently and exercise sound judgment.
• Bonus: Paralegal certification, experience in a technology company, consumer e-commerce environment, or marketplace platform, and comfort using or piloting AI-based tools.