Overview
This role is part of the organization’s first dedicated legal hire and will build the day-to-day legal function from the ground up. You will serve as the primary point of contact for legal matters across the organization’s entire portfolio and work closely with a fractional General Counsel and a curated bench of outside specialist counsel.
The position is remote and U.S.-based (preference for candidates near New York or San Francisco). Full-time.
Responsibilities
Portfolio legal operations and support
- Act as the first point of contact for legal questions across all portfolio companies using an AI-assisted intake and triage system.
- Build and operate core legal function infrastructure, including centralized matter intake and tracking, legal playbooks, escalation protocols, and portfolio-wide reporting.
- Coordinate collection, organization, implementation, and ongoing administration of contract templates; partner with senior legal leadership and specialist outside counsel on substantive template design, negotiation positions, and risk parameters.
- Support development and ongoing management of an outside-counsel panel, including matter routing, performance tracking, and coordination around pricing and engagement terms.
Commercial, corporate, and post-acquisition support
- Review and negotiate routine vendor and customer commercial contracts within approved playbooks and escalation thresholds.
- Manage entity and subsidiary governance across the holding structure.
- Support legal workstreams following new acquisitions, including coordinating legal intake, tracking remediation items, and escalating material issues to senior legal leadership and business stakeholders.
- Help establish repeatable post-acquisition legal integration processes across the portfolio.
Specialist coordination and risk escalation
- Route M&A, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, tax, and specialized regulatory matters (including healthcare privacy) to appropriate outside counsel.
- Exercise judgment on when to escalate matters, which specialist to engage, and when senior legal review is required.
- Coordinate with HR on employment-related legal matters and support consistent documentation, approvals, and follow-through.
Requirements
Must-haves
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one U.S. state.
- 3–5 years of legal experience, ideally with meaningful time at a smaller company or an early-stage in-house function (not exclusively at a large law firm or a large corporate legal department).
- Comfort operating without an established process in place; you will build the playbook rather than execute one already built.
- Strong commercial contract instincts and the judgment to know what is routine versus what requires outside counsel or escalation.
- A bias toward finding the path that lets the business move, while being clear-eyed about risk.
- Ability to apply legal judgment across multiple industries simultaneously without deep expertise in each regulatory regime.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience in a small, still-forming legal function where you helped build process rather than inherited one.
- Experience working across multiple business lines or subsidiaries simultaneously.
- Experience coordinating with specialist outside counsel on equity, incentive-compensation, or corporate-governance matters.
- Familiarity with legal matter-management, intake, contract-lifecycle, or AI-assisted legal-operations tools.
Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive compensation and a full benefits package.
- Base salary range: $275,000–$375,000, plus a performance-based bonus and equity.
- Placement within the range is based on job-related factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
Location
Remote, U.S.-based. Preference for candidates near New York or San Francisco.