Associate General Counsel

Overview

This role serves as the organization’s first Assistant General Counsel (AGC) and the second lawyer on the legal team. The position owns the commercial contracts function end-to-end and handles a wide range of legal matters across the business, building scalable processes and playbooks to support growth.

Responsibilities span commercial, corporate, employment, compliance, and strategic legal matters, with the expectation of advising multiple business verticals and translating legal risk and business opportunity into clear, practical guidance.

Responsibilities

• Draft, negotiate, and close enterprise SaaS/AI agreements, including relevant addenda and schedules (including DPAs)
• Build and maintain contract templates and a negotiation playbook to help the sales team move deals faster
• Triage inbound redlines efficiently and establish contract review SLAs
• Own day-to-day privacy compliance and data governance strategy
• Manage vendor and partner agreements, including software licenses and professional services contracts
• Serve as an embedded legal partner for Sales & Marketing, Product, Engineering, and Finance
• Identify legal risks early in the product development cycle and advise on mitigation without slowing execution
• Build and refine legal operations infrastructure, including contract management tooling and intake processes
• Determine when outside counsel is needed and manage those relationships

Requirements

• JD from an accredited law school
• Active state bar membership in good standing
• 4–8 years of experience, including at least 2–3 years at an Am Law 100 law firm in the transactional/commercial practice area
• Deep expertise in commercial contract drafting and negotiation, including experience with complex deals and understanding where real risk lives
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, prioritize competing demands, and make judgment calls without hand-holding
• Clear, direct communicator who can write and speak in plain language

Preferred Qualifications

• In-house experience at a high-growth tech company (Series A–C)
• Familiarity with SaaS/AI business models, cloud infrastructure agreements, and API/platform contracts
• Experience with federal, state, and international data privacy frameworks and standard DPA negotiations
• Experience building in-house data privacy compliance frameworks
• Exposure to equity compensation, venture financing documentation, or M&A (even in a supporting role)

Compensation & Benefits

• Not specified in the provided job description.

Location

• Remote-first, with a distributed team across North and South America.