About the Role
You will be the first dedicated go-to-market hire, working directly with technology companies and investment institutions to identify legal needs, demonstrate our unique approach, and close new business. This role involves selling a fundamentally new way of delivering legal services and defining our go-to-market strategy. As a founding hire, you will shape the sales playbook, pricing, and client onboarding processes.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the external face of the company to prospective clients, ensuring every interaction reflects the quality and ambition of what we're building.
- Build trusted relationships with General Counsels and legal leaders.
- Identify, qualify, and close new client relationships with technology companies and investment institutions.
- Run the full sales cycle from outreach through contract execution.
- Develop and refine our sales playbook, messaging, and objection handling.
- Partner with the legal team to translate our capabilities into compelling client-facing narratives.
- Own pipeline management, forecasting, and reporting.
- Provide market feedback to the product and legal teams to inform how we evolve our offering.
Requirements
- 3-10 years in B2B sales, business development, or client acquisition.
- Experience selling professional services, legal tech, or to legal buyers is a strong plus, but not required if you have the commercial instincts, hustle, and credibility with lawyers.
- Energized by building from zero; willing to write the playbook.
- Ability to explain a complex, novel service offering clearly and compellingly.
- Comfortable in rooms with senior legal professionals.
- Desire to understand how legal work actually gets done to sell a better way of doing it.
- Treat pipeline and revenue targets as personal commitments.
- Ambition to play a critical role in transforming a societally important industry.
Skills
- B2B sales
- Business development
- Client acquisition
- Sales playbook development
- Messaging
- Objection handling
- Pipeline management
- Forecasting
- Reporting
- Client relationship building
- Full sales cycle management
Experience Level
- Open to candidates across a range of experience levels
- Early career with strong hustle and commercial instincts (AE role)
- More experienced with a track record of building sales functions (GTM leadership role)
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive base salary plus commission plus equity
- Compensation is commensurate with experience
About the Company
- Stealth company in legal AI, backed by leading venture investors.
- Designed from the ground up to transform the practice of law.
- Delivers elite legal services with fast turnaround, predictable pricing, and a transformed client experience.
- Combines bleeding-edge automation with top-tier lawyers.
- Founding team brings experience from frontier AI labs, elite law firms, and top law schools.
- Small team making earliest hires with significant opportunity to shape the company and the legal profession.
Equal Opportunity
- We value and celebrate diversity and strive to create an inclusive work environment for all.
- We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities.
- Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, please reach out to contact@clara.law.
