The posting
ABOUT ATTICUS
At any given time, 16 million Americans are experiencing a crisis that requires urgent help from our legal system or government. The right assistance could transform their lives. But today, most never get it.
Atticus makes it easy for any sick or injured person in crisis to get the life-changing aid they deserve. In the last six years, we've become the leading platform connecting people with disabilities to government benefits. We’re also quickly scaling an injury practice to help victims of accidents, misconduct, and violence get compensation from insurance.
So far, we've helped hundreds of thousands of people access over $10B in life-changing aid — and earned over 20,000+ five-star reviews. And we're just getting started.
We've raised more than $100 million from top VC firms like Forerunner, GV (Google Ventures), and True Ventures, with ambitions to create a category defining business assisting Americans in need.
THE JOB
Each month, tens of thousands of Americans seek our help for a single legal matter – applying for Social Security Disability, filing a Workers’ Compensation claim – but many of these clients are actually eligible for additional aid without ever knowing it.
Your job as Lead Attorney, New Verticals is to help us do right by these clients, helping them claim additional benefits through the social safety net. You’ll oversee the team of intake specialists who speak with clients who have secondary claims, evaluating the case facts and whether to connect them with an Atticus attorney or local attorney to provide legal advice and potentially take on their case.
This is a job that straddles the line between practicing the law and growing a business. It requires developing a strong understanding of multiple fields of law, and being able to accurately identify when we can help and when we cannot. But even more importantly, this job requires you to be an incredibly strong operator: you need to keep the big picture in mind and stay laser-focused on how we can achieve our goals, oftentimes finding outside-the-box ways to accomplish them. You will report to our General Manager of New Verticals https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-bailinson/ and work closely with our CEO and Managing Attorney https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-byker/.
On any given day, you’ll spend your time:
- Speaking with severely injured clients trying to rebuild their lives after a catastrophic accident
- Sourcing and vetting local counsel in individual markets, holding a high bar for representation quality and ending relationships that fall below it
- Working with our data and insights team to identify existing clients who may have unrecognized claims in adjacent fields of law, and setting the standard for which ancillary cases we take on
- Building the playbook for claim types we haven't handled before, starting by screening cases yourself and eventually creating the protocol our intake specialists will run at scale
This is a rare opportunity for an attorney to join a profitable and growing public-interest law firm and take on one of our biggest priorities as a company.
QUALIFICATIONS
Required:
- You can understand the nuances of various contingency fields of law and can apply them to a variety of cases (including Social Security Disability, Workers’ Compensation, Personal Injury, and more) – you don’t need to be an expert today, but you should be a fast learner.
- You can empathize with anyone and quickly build rapport and relationships while exercising good judgment, both with our clients and local counsel at law firms across the country.
- You have strong instincts and judgment as an operator – you can run effective and efficient processes, and you don’t let them run you.
- You have a demonstrated commitment to doing good and helping people.
Bonus / Nice-to-Have:
- You’ve built a track record as a great people manager – you know how to motivate talent and hold a high bar for output.
- You have meaningful work experience outside of serving as a lawyer, ideally at a startup or other fast-paced, agile environment (e.g., a business operations team).
We are strongly committed to building a diverse team. If you're from a background that's underrepresented in tech, we'd love to meet you.
SALARY AND BENEFITS
This role offers a unique chance to join a startup that has strong traction (substantial funding, well-respected backers, tremendous growth, and many happy customers) but is still small enough that you can have a huge impact and play a role in shaping our success.
We're a certified B Corporation tackling a critical social problem. Our mission to help people in need drives everything we do, and your work here will touch many lives.
We offer competitive pay — including equity — and generous benefits:
- Medical and dental insurance with 100% of employees and their families premiums covered
- 15 vacation days & ~20 paid holidays each year (including two weeks at end-of-year)
- Free membership to OneMedical
- $600/year internet stipend
- $1,000 reimbursable stipend for education and training outside of work
- Up to $1,200/year student loan repayment assistance
- 401(k) match and optional HSA/FSA
- Humble, thoughtful, smart, fun colleagues
We anticipate the base salary band for this role will be between $140,000 and $175,000 in addition to equity and benefits. The salary at offer will be determined by a number of factors such as candidate's experience, knowledge, skills and abilities, as well as internal equity among our team.
LOCATION
This job is fully remote and we’re committed to empowering everyone with flexibility. Work remotely, and travel to LA (on the company dime) as needed to be with your colleagues – usually quarterly, plus offsites. We care a lot about building a great culture and we think some interactions need to happen in person, so we put a lot of thought into retreats, offsites, and other ways to gather.
