The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit digital library seeking a mission-driven in-house counsel to join our legal team. This position is full time and fully remote (within the United States), reporting to the General Counsel. This role supports multiple teams across the organization, including Finance, Collections, Scanning & Digitization, Development, Patron Services, and our subscription web archiving program Archive-It, as well as the management team. This role will be expected to travel at least once a year for a legal team onsite in the San Francisco Bay Area. Given that the Internet Archive is a small organization with a global reach, a roll-up-your-sleeves attitude to taking on projects large and small with a low-ego approach to collaborating across the organization will be important.

 

Key Responsibilities

 

  • Support engineering teams building new services and features;

  • Maintain deep knowledge of worldwide content regulations, and laws relating to web scraping and user data requests;

  • Counsel on issues that touch upon user uploaded content, such as trust and safety, mis- and disinformation, copyright, intermediary liability, privacy, cyber security and government requests for information;

  • Interpret and operationalize worldwide regulations that affect the organization's operations;

  • Draft, review and negotiate contracts for all departments; 

  • Organize and maintain the organization’s contracts and other important legal documentation;

  • Manage pro bono counsel; and

  • Represent the organization at workshops, meetings, and in collaborations.

 

Qualifications and Skills

  • A J.D. and license to practice law;

  • Five or more years of experience either in a law firm, or in-house at a library, non-profit or technology company;

  • The ideal candidate will have deep subject matter expertise in US and EU intermediary liability regimes;

  • Excellent organizational and communication skills; 

  • Demonstrated ability to explain complex legal issues in everyday plain language for different types of audiences;

  • Knowledge of digital libraries/archives, scholarly communications, data management, or open knowledge services, concepts, and practices preferred;

  • Flexibility, self-reliance, a sense of humor, and a creative approach to problem-solving;

  • Demonstrable history of providing practical guidance to solve complex, time-sensitive problems in close partnership with a variety of cross-functional teams and external partners;

  • Experience working in a remote-first organization; and

  • Candidates must be enthusiastic about, and motivated by, Internet Archive’s mission to provide Universal Access to All Knowledge

About the Interview Process

We will accept applications and conduct interviews on a rolling basis. The interview process may include a written assessment and interviews with our team, virtually or in person.

About the Internet Archive: 

We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit digital research library with an ambitious mission: to provide universal access to all knowledge -- the books, music, images, audio, television, websites and software of our shared human culture. Our 90 engineers, archivists, librarians, and team members have built one of the top 300 websites in the world, https://archive.org/. Internet Archive digitizes thousands of books a day and collects a hundred million web pages a week. Over the past 25 years, our team has built one of the largest digital libraries in the world serving millions of people worldwide by working with hundreds of libraries, archives, museums, universities, and non-profits around the globe.

Benefits & Perks:

The Internet Archive is a remote first workplace and provides a comprehensive benefits package including; PTO, paid holidays, and medical benefits. Depending on where you live, we also provide these additional benefits; dental, vision, health savings accounts, flex spending accounts, commuter benefits, short term disability, long term disability and retirement programs.

At the Internet Archive, we believe we do our best work when our employees bring together diverse ideas. Members of all groups under represented in the tech industry and library world are strongly encouraged to apply. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law.