Attorney

Overview

This role supports a growing corporate practice as an Attorney focused on business-entity formation and structuring, corporate governance, capitalization and equity matters, financings, and strategic transactions. Work involves advising clients and internal stakeholders with practical, business-oriented counsel throughout the corporate lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of legal professionals.
• Lead and manage corporate matters throughout the business lifecycle, including entity formation, jurisdictional qualification, restructurings, conversions, dissolutions, and ongoing entity maintenance.
• Draft and negotiate governing documents and corporate records, including certificates of incorporation or formation, bylaws, operating agreements, stockholder agreements, investor-rights agreements, and board and stockholder/member consents and related corporate actions.
• Advise on corporate governance, fiduciary duties, capitalization, equity issuances and transfers, option and incentive-equity matters, and maintenance of accurate capitalization tables and corporate records.
• Advise on governance, capitalization, and ongoing administration of Delaware corporations and limited liability companies, including preparation and review of formation documents, governing documents, written consents, equity records, and related filings, as applicable.
• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements that support clients’ corporate and strategic objectives, including service agreements, SaaS and software agreements, vendor agreements, consulting agreements, non-disclosure agreements, and partnership arrangements.
• Advise clients and business stakeholders on transaction structure, contract interpretation, risk allocation, commercial strategy, compliance considerations, and dispute-avoidance issues.
• Translate legal and business issues into clear, concise, practical advice for non-lawyer stakeholders.
• Manage matters independently, prioritize competing deadlines, maintain accurate matter records, and communicate proactively regarding status, risks, and next steps.
• Collaborate with colleagues, clients, and cross-functional stakeholders to deliver high-quality work product on a timely basis.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of contract templates, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, intake processes, and other scalable legal resources.
• Identify opportunities to improve legal workflows through contract-lifecycle management, matter-management tools, automation, artificial intelligence, reporting, and other legal-technology solutions.
• Help establish and maintain legal-operations practices, including process mapping, workflow design, knowledge management, metrics, dashboards, and continuous-improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor required.
• Active license to practice law in Arizona, in good standing, or willing and able to waive into Arizona.
• 5–7 years of substantive legal experience focused principally on corporate law, business transactions, venture financings, mergers and acquisitions, or closely related practice areas.
• Experience managing people.
• Demonstrated experience managing corporate governance, capitalization, equity, financing, and transactional matters, with the ability to independently prepare and review core corporate documents.
• Prior experience serving as embedded or outside commercial counsel to in-house legal and business teams.
• Experience advising technology, software, SaaS, professional-services, or other growth-oriented businesses.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting Delaware corporations and limited liability companies, including entity formation and maintenance, corporate governance, equity administration, financing support, and preparation of board, stockholder, or member actions.
• Experience with legal operations, including contract lifecycle management, legal intake, workflow automation, knowledge management, legal spend or matter reporting, process improvement, and legal-service metrics.
• Experience developing or improving templates, playbooks, clause libraries, approval matrices, or scalable legal processes.
• Familiarity with privacy, data-security, intellectual-property, employment, or regulatory issues that commonly arise in commercial transactions.

Skills for Success

• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Strong knowledge of corporate-law concepts and ability to apply them pragmatically in a client-service environment; commercial-contracting experience is also required.
• Excellent written, verbal, analytical, organizational, and project-management skills.
• Ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, manage multiple matters simultaneously, and meet demanding deadlines.
• High degree of technology fluency, including confidence working with document-management, contract-management, matter-management, collaboration, and productivity platforms.
• Commitment to professional judgment, responsiveness, accuracy, confidentiality, and client service.

Technical Skills

• Excellent MS Office skills, capable of preparing PowerPoint, Word, and Excel files without support.
• Familiarity with using artificial intelligence and other legal-technology tools responsibly to enhance drafting, review, research, matter management, and operational efficiency.

Compensation & Benefits

• US national salary range: $120,000-150,000, based on job-related skills, experience, level, and location.
• Comprehensive benefits package and PTO for full-time employees.

Location

• Arizona (licensed in Arizona required; in good standing or willing and able to waive into Arizona).