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About the Role

Basis is seeking its first in-house Legal Counsel to establish the legal framework for its growth. This role involves collaborating with leadership and various departments to manage commercial and corporate legal matters, including contracting, corporate governance, and employment law.

Responsibilities

• Manage the company’s day-to-day contracting needs, including reviewing, drafting, and negotiating customer and vendor agreements.
• Improve systems for contracting by developing templates and playbooks, strengthening approval and escalation processes, and tracking ongoing obligations.
• Support corporate governance and board-related matters, including cap table management, board and stockholder approvals, meeting preparation, equity administration, and fundraising.
• Ensure corporate records, governance processes, and legal obligations remain accurate and current.
• Advise on strategic partnerships and other business arrangements.
• Support personnel matters in partnership with the People team, including employment agreements, policies, employee relations, compensation and equity questions, and other workplace issues.
• Build a legal function from an early stage.

Requirements

• 2-5 years of experience practicing corporate or commercial law at a leading law firm.
• A J.D. from a top law school and membership in good standing with at least one US state bar.
• Experience reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial agreements, ideally including SaaS agreements, vendor contracts, NDAs, data-processing terms, and strategic partnership agreements.
• A strong grounding in corporate law, including governance, capitalization, equity matters, board processes, and financing transactions.
• Excellent judgment and the ability to distinguish meaningful legal or business risks from issues that should not slow the company down.
• Clear, precise writing and the ability to explain complex legal questions in practical business terms.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and follow-through across multiple concurrent matters.
• A hands-on approach: comfortable doing the work yourself, building processes from scratch, and operating without a large legal team or established playbook.
• Intellectual curiosity and the ability to learn unfamiliar products, technologies, and areas of law quickly.

Skills

• Commercial Judgment
• Corporate and Transactional Range
• Operational Mindset
• Business Partnership
• Ownership in Ambiguity
• Growth Potential

Location

• NYC, Flatiron office

Work Type

• In-person team, five days a week

Experience Level

• 2-5 years of experience

Education Level

• J.D. from a top law school

Benefits

• Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage
• Life Insurance
• 6 coaching & 6 therapy sessions through Spring Health
• 100% covered Wellhub Gold membership (access to gyms like Lifetime, SoulCycle, NYSC and wellness apps like Strava & Headspace)
• Unlimited PTO
• 12 paid company holidays
• Daily meal stipends
• Fully stocked kitchen
• $300 toward custom desk setup
• Pre-tax commuter benefits
• 401(k) retirement plan
• Monthly office activities
• Frequent optional team happy hours
• Parental Leave

About the Company

• Basis builds real agents that do real work in the real economy.
• Our agents operate for hours at a time, performing end-to-end work for some of the largest accounting firms in the world.
• We recently raised $100M at >$1B valuation and are racing to deploy the most advanced applied ML at production scale.