Corporate Counsel

Overview

An experienced Corporate Counsel is needed to join the Legal Team. This role works closely with the General Counsel and focuses primarily on M&A, strategic investments, financings, global expansion, and overall public readiness. The position partners with Finance, People, and other teams on acquisition structure and post-acquisition integration, fundraising, and equity programs. It also involves helping design processes, agreements, frameworks, and ways the broader organization approaches transactional and governance matters.

Responsibilities

• Serve as legal lead for acquisitions, strategic investments, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions across the full lifecycle, including post-closing integration and structure.
• Act as a primary legal partner to Finance and Operations on deal strategy and execution, providing clear recommendations to key stakeholders.
• Support fundraising activities, including diligence, financing documents, side letters, investor rights, and coordination with outside counsel across compressed timelines.
• Partner with Finance and People on equity programs, including option and RSU grants, plan amendments, cap table hygiene, 409A process, and secondaries and tender offers.
• Advise on securities law questions associated with a fast-scaling private company.
• Assist with corporate governance and entity work, including proper approvals and subsidiary formation.
• Design, maintain, and continuously improve templates, playbooks, diligence checklists, approval workflows, and signing/closing infrastructure to scale the corporate function.
• Provide clear, pragmatic, commercially focused legal advice tailored to enable responsible growth.

Requirements

• J.D. and active membership in at least one U.S. State Bar.
• 6+ years of relevant post-qualification legal experience at a major law firm, a high-growth technology company, or both.
• Proven track record drafting and negotiating M&A and investment documents, including purchase agreements, term sheets, disclosure schedules, and ancillary deal documents, as well as post-acquisition integration.
• Substantive experience with venture or growth-stage financings and the securities law questions that come with them.
• Working knowledge of equity compensation, including plan administration, grant mechanics, and liquidity events such as secondaries and tender offers.
• Strong corporate generalist instincts, with enough governance and entity experience to keep transactions clean on the back end.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Comfort in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities and tight deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Public company experience strongly preferred.

Compensation & Benefits

• Annual discretionary stipend for professional development.
• Annual discretionary stipend for social travel to meet up with colleagues each year.
• Annual company offsite in a new location (past offsites have included Croatia and Italy).
• Monthly co-working stipend if not located near one of the main hubs.

Location

Remote role executable in the United States, with a preference for New York or San Francisco, where the organization has offices and significant presence.

Equal Opportunity

The employer is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, or other legally protected statuses.