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About the Role
Thinking Machines Lab is seeking an attorney to lead the corporate function, reporting to the General Counsel. This role involves managing equity and financing transactions, corporate governance, and building a scalable contracting function for commercial agreements. It requires strong judgment, comfort with ambiguity, and the ability to translate business needs into legal terms.
Responsibilities
- Lead equity and financing transactions from term sheet through closing, and support M&A and other strategic transactions.
- Own corporate governance, including board matters, cap table, and equity compensation administration, entity maintenance, and corporate records and policies.
- Structure, draft, and negotiate commercial agreements, including partnerships, infrastructure, enterprise, vendors, NDAs, and research collaborations.
- Build legal infrastructure such as contracting templates, playbooks, approval workflows, and scalable positions on AI product-related issues like IP, data use, confidentiality, and risk allocation.
Requirements
- 10+ years of legal experience with significant experience in corporate transactions (equity financings, governance, M&A) and commercial contracting for technology companies.
- Strong background in private company corporate work, including venture and growth equity financings, preferred stock transactions, secondary transactions, corporate governance, and cap table management.
- Experience with technology transactions, SaaS agreements, enterprise contracts, IP licensing, and commercial risk allocation.
- Client counseling skills with the ability to exercise judgment under uncertainty and communicate practical, solution-focused advice.
- Strong drafting and negotiation skills, with the ability to explain positions clearly and resolve issues pragmatically.
Skills
- Corporate transactions
- Commercial contracting
- Equity financings
- Corporate governance
- M&A
- Cap table management
- Technology transactions
- SaaS agreements
- Enterprise contracts
- IP licensing
- Commercial risk allocation
- Client counseling
- Drafting
- Negotiation
- In-house experience at a technology company
- AI products legal issues
- Machine learning development lifecycle
- AI-powered products or AI transactions
- Compute/infrastructure
- Data rights
- Joint development
- Research collaborations
- Strategic partnerships
- AI-related commercial, IP, data protection, and regulatory issues
Location
- San Francisco, California
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 10+ years of legal experience
Salary/Compensations
- $350,000-$425,000 USD
Benefits
- Generous health, dental, and vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support
About the Company
- Thinking Machines Lab's mission is to empower humanity through advancing collaborative general intelligence.
- We're building a future where everyone has access to the knowledge and tools to make AI work for their unique needs and goals.
- We are scientists, engineers, and builders who’ve created some of the most widely used AI products, including ChatGPT and Character.ai, open-weights models like Mistral, as well as popular open source projects like PyTorch, OpenAI Gym, Fairseq, and Segment Anything.
Equal Opportunity
- As set forth in Thinking Machines' Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.
- Thinking Machines Lab will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the California Fair Chance Act, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and any other applicable state or local fair chance ordinance or law.