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About the Role

Dorsia is seeking an Associate General Counsel to manage the legal function as the sole in-house lawyer. This role involves overseeing corporate governance, investor relations, and equity administration, while leading legal strategy for financings and acquisitions. The position also includes providing product and regulatory counsel, managing privacy and employment initiatives, and negotiating commercial agreements. The Associate General Counsel will act as a strategic partner to leadership, serving as the primary legal architect for various teams and building an AI-native legal function to automate workflows.

Responsibilities

Own corporate governance and board operations, including board consents, resolutions, and maintenance of investor and advisor records.
Administer the company’s equity program, including grant issuance, vesting administration, and related board approvals.
Support financings and fundraising activity, partnering with founders and outside counsel on diligence, documentation, and closing.
Advise on strategic transactions such as acquisitions and asset purchases, including deal structuring and IP transfer.
Provide product and regulatory counseling on new products and features, including payments, credit, and other emerging questions as the platform expands.
Own privacy and data protection workstreams, including subprocessor documentation and related compliance items.
Support international expansion, including market entry, local compliance, and cross-border data considerations.
Perform final legal review of marketing, product, and campaign copy.
Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements including venue and hospitality partnerships, event and table sales agreements, private members club onboarding contracts, and influencer and talent agreements.
Draft and maintain platform terms and related consumer-facing policies.
Engage and manage outside counsel for the most complex partnership structures and specialized matters, balancing quality with spend.
Own and maintain employment document templates, including offer terms, CIIAAs, and multi-state form agreements.
Support the People team on compensation, equity, employment agreements, and employee relations matters.
Develop and maintain internal policies in partnership with People and Finance.
Build and deploy AI agents to automate first-pass contract drafting, redlining, and clause-level review across the commercial pipeline.
Design self-serve legal workflows that let teams generate NDAs and standard agreements without waiting on legal.
Use AI tooling to monitor contract obligations, renewal dates, and compliance deadlines, flagging exposure before it becomes risk.
Treat the legal function as a product, continuously identifying manual workflows and replacing them with scalable systems.

Requirements

JD and active bar membership required.
7+ years of experience in corporate or commercial law, including time as a sole or lean in-house counsel at a startup or high-growth company.
AI native with demonstrated experience building AI-native legal functions, including hands-on experience deploying AI agents and automation across contract review, redlining, and compliance workflows.
Strong corporate generalist skill set spanning governance, financings, strategic transactions, employment, privacy, and commercial contracts, with comfort covering all of it as a department of one.
Experience administering equity programs, including grant issuance, vesting, and board consent processes.
Working knowledge of data privacy frameworks and subprocessor documentation as they apply to consumer-facing products.
Business affairs sensibility for the non-standard commercial structures common in our space.
Experience advising on payments, credit, or other regulated consumer products.
Experience with hospitality, membership, or two-sided marketplace businesses, particularly partnerships-heavy models is a plus.

Skills

Corporate governance
Investor relations
Equity administration
Legal strategy
Financings
Acquisitions
Product counsel
Regulatory counsel
Privacy
Employment law
Commercial agreements negotiation
AI automation
Contract drafting
Contract review
Contract redlining
Compliance
Data privacy frameworks
Payments
Credit
Hospitality partnerships
Membership models
Marketplace businesses

Location

New York

Work Type

In-person

Experience Level

7+ years of experience
Sole or lean in-house counsel at a startup or high-growth company

Education Level

JD
Active bar membership

Salary/Compensations

$215,000—$245,000 USD

About the Company

Dorsia is at the forefront of hospitality-tech innovation, redefining how the world gains access to the most in-demand restaurants, events, and experiences.
By fusing cutting-edge technology with the art of luxury hospitality, we empower our members to secure impossible-to-get reservations while providing operators with unprecedented levels of control, visibility, and revenue optimization.
In 2025, we grew revenue 480% and scaled to 400+ venues across 25 destinations, with the launch of our Culture Calendar extending Dorsia beyond restaurants into the world's most sought-after cultural moments.
Backed by $54M in funding from investors including Index Ventures, Invus, and Red Sea Ventures, and strategic partners including MoonPay, Major Food Group, and The Dinex Group - Daniel Boulud, we are entering our most consequential phase of growth and reshaping the global hospitality landscape.

Equal Opportunity

We don’t subscribe to check-the-box hiring. We hire for merit and mindset, which naturally creates a team with varied backgrounds. What unites us isn’t demographics, it’s a shared vision: to build the social operating system for the cultural vanguard.