Assistant General Counsel (Corporate)

Overview

An organization providing AI-powered intelligence solutions for public and private sector agencies is seeking an Assistant General Counsel (Corporate) to lead M&A, strategic investments, equity financings, and corporate governance. This role involves direct collaboration with senior leadership including the CLO, CEO, and VP of Finance to accelerate deal closures and establish scalable legal frameworks for growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead M&A transactions, strategic investments, and equity financings as primary deal counsel.
• Design and implement AI-assisted due diligence workflows to reduce deal cycle times and outside counsel costs.
• Develop corporate governance infrastructure including board consent processes, committee charters, equity plan governance, and multi-entity compliance frameworks suitable for scaling from Series D to IPO.
• Advise senior executives on corporate law matters to enable faster, informed strategic decisions.
• Reduce reliance on outside counsel by handling high-frequency corporate work internally and creating reusable templates and playbooks.
• Manage multi-entity global compliance using AI-assisted tracking workflows to proactively identify and address issues.
• Build scalable legal infrastructure such as transaction templates, governance playbooks, and self-service tools to minimize legal friction.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of corporate legal experience with demonstrated lead-counsel ownership of M&A, equity financings, or strategic investments.
• Active US bar admission and JD from an ABA-accredited law school.
• In-house legal experience at a high-growth technology company; candidates with only BigLaw experience are not competitive.
• Proven fluency with AI tools (e.g., Claude, Gemini) and ability to design AI-assisted legal processes.
• Ability to independently manage transactions with a strong bias toward closing in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience advising senior executives and translating complex legal issues into clear business recommendations.
• Strong drafting and negotiation skills across M&A agreements, term sheets, investment documents, and governance materials.
• Track record of building scalable legal infrastructure that reduces legal friction for business partners.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a lean, high-ownership legal team environment.
• Familiarity with AI tool adoption in legal workflows.
• Ability to operate as a strategic business partner to Finance, Business Development, and executive teams.

Compensation & Benefits

Details on compensation and benefits were not provided.

Location

The team is distributed across US time zones with core overlap from 9am–5pm PT/ET. The organization operates as a distributed-first company with hubs in multiple cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Washington D.C., London, and Singapore.

Additional Information

• The role requires operating in a fast-moving, high-ownership environment with frequent changes in priorities and ambiguity.
• AI fluency is a baseline expectation; candidates will be evaluated on applied AI skills during the interview process.
• The legal team uses asynchronous communication primarily via Slack and documents key decisions in Notion.
• The organization is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.
• Recruitment agencies are not accepted without a signed agreement.

Applicants should be prepared to work in a dynamic environment that values speed, innovation, and impact in the intersection of AI, national security, and crime disruption.