Legal and compliance jobs

• Legal counsel440 jobsAdvises a company on the law: contracts, products, disputes, regulators.
• Paralegal and legal operations173 jobsSupports lawyers: prepares documents, tracks contracts and deadlines, runs the legal team’s tools.
• Compliance440 jobsMakes sure a company follows the rules that apply to it, such as anti-money-laundering checks, licences and reporting to regulators.
• Privacy47 jobsMakes sure personal data is collected and used within the law.
• Policy and government affairs67 jobsFollows new laws and talks to regulators and governments on a company’s behalf.
• Security compliance (GRC)165 jobsProves to customers and auditors that a company handles data safely, and gets it through checks such as SOC 2.
• Government and defense717 jobsSells to, builds for or deals with governments and the armed forces; some roles need a security clearance.

• SSpaceX92
• PPalantir91
• HHarvey75
• AAnthropic56
• DDatabricks51
• OOKX46
• AAirwallex45
• OOpenAI39
• RRocket Lab38
• SScale AI34
• AAdyen32
• SStripe30

• 🇺🇸United States1,261
• 🇺🇸California421
• 🇺🇸San Francisco Bay Area313
• 🇪🇺Europe311
• 🇺🇸Washington, DC250
• 🇺🇸New York201
• 🌏Asia-Pacific155
• 🇬🇧London & the UK128
• 🇺🇸Texas71
• 🇺🇸Seattle56

A role that lists several places is counted in each of them.

Medians of the midpoints of advertised yearly US-dollar ranges; a level needs at least 15 such roles. Advertised, not verified pay.

Which jobs count as legal and compliance?

Contracts, regulators and the rules a company must follow. On Hiring Right Now that is 7 kinds of work: Legal counsel, Paralegal and legal operations, Compliance, Privacy, Policy and government affairs, Security compliance (GRC), Government and defense.

How many legal and compliance jobs are open right now?

There are 1,932 open legal and compliance jobs at 330 companies on Hiring Right Now as of Nov 14, 2026. 196 of them were posted in the last seven days. The list is rebuilt every hour from the employers' own careers pages.

Which companies have the most legal and compliance jobs?

Right now the most openings are at SpaceX (92), Palantir (91), Harvey (75), Anthropic (56) and Databricks (51). The ranking changes as companies open and close roles.

Are there remote legal and compliance jobs?

486 of the 1,932 open legal and compliance jobs (25%) are listed as remote. Remote roles are often limited to certain countries or time zones, so check the location line of each job.

What do legal and compliance jobs pay?

The median advertised salary is $202K, based on 1,054 open roles that publish a yearly US-dollar range. The middle half of those roles advertise between $162K and $250K. These are advertised ranges, not verified pay.

How do I apply for legal and compliance jobs?

Open a job and press “Apply on company site”. You go straight to the employer's own careers page and apply there. Hiring Right Now needs no account and charges nothing for applying.

• SSpaceX92
• PPalantir91
• HHarvey75
• AAnthropic56
• DDatabricks51
• OOKX46
• AAirwallex45
• OOpenAI39
• RRocket Lab38
• SScale AI34
• AAdyen32
• SStripe30