Legal Counsel

Overview

This role is for a second lawyer to support legal matters across a fast-moving AI creative platform. The team is looking to add a generalist who can handle a wide range of legal responsibilities, with the flexibility to focus on areas you prefer or where you have strength.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities may include, depending on the needs of the moment and the candidate’s strengths:

• Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of agreements (e.g., customer, vendor, partner, creator)
• Manage end-to-end contract workflows: intake, drafting, negotiation, closing, and filing
• Handle licensing agreements across countries and continents
• Support patent preparations
• Address immigration issues
• Advise on corporate governance matters
• Assist with invitations to speak at law schools and conferences
• Work on collaboration deals involving film directors, musical artists, and creative studios
• Respond to agency actions from the U.S. trademark office
• Contribute to AI-powered legal workflows and legal operations
• Support matters involving data privacy and information security
• Support state and global taxation matters
• Review and negotiate enterprise sales contracts
• Support financings and related legal work

Requirements

• Experience level can vary: 25 years, or 25 months, or 25 weeks of experience
• The candidate may be three decades out of law school or three hours out of law school
• Comfort working with uncertainty and ambiguity, including situations where what’s next is not fully known

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong curiosity and passion, with a demonstrated ability to move work forward through exploration and learning

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation Range: $220K - $250K
• John’s base pay is $250,000 (used as the median)

Location

• Remote in the US
• San Francisco, Chicago, LA, or NYC affinity is noted as a potential plus (no other constraints stated).