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About the Role
This is a unique opportunity to join a founding team as their second attorney, helping to build and shape the future of legal services. You will collaborate directly with the founding attorney on strategic decisions and play a key role in defining client service and practice scaling. As an early team member, you will have significant ownership over client outcomes and operational systems. This role combines high-quality legal work with building an AI-native legal platform for startups.
Responsibilities
- Advise startups and growth companies on corporate law matters, including entity formation, governance, and compliance
- Structure and negotiate venture capital financings, SAFEs, convertible notes, and other funding instruments
- Develop and implement IP strategies to protect client innovations
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, employment contracts, and vendor agreements
- Ensure corporate compliance across multiple jurisdictions
- Collaborate on building efficient, AI-enhanced legal workflows
- Help shape firm culture, processes, and client service standards
- Contribute to thought leadership and business development efforts
Requirements
- 8+ years of corporate law experience
- Proven track record advising startups and leading venture financings
- Strong understanding of corporate governance and compliance
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills
- Tech-savvy and comfortable working with AI-powered tools
- Experience with IP strategy and protection & Fundraising
- Prior in-house experience at a startup or growth-stage company
- Familiarity with AI and legal technology platforms
- Entrepreneurial mindset: Thrives in ambiguity and enjoys building from zero
- Collaborative spirit: Believes great outcomes come from tight partnership
- Client-focused: Cares deeply about helping founders succeed
- Change-maker: Motivated to rethink and improve how legal services are delivered
- Adaptable: Comfortable with rapid iteration and evolving systems
Skills
- Corporate law
- Entity formation
- Governance
- Compliance
- Venture capital financing
- SAFEs
- Convertible notes
- IP strategy
- Commercial agreements
- Employment contracts
- Vendor agreements
- AI-powered legal workflows
- Thought leadership
- Business development
- AI
- Legal technology
Experience Level
- 8+ years of corporate law experience
Salary/Compensations
- $145,000 – $160,000 base salary
Benefits
- Meaningful equity: Early-stage ownership with significant upside
- Direct impact: Shape the firm’s direction, culture, and service model
- Cutting-edge tools: Work with AI-powered legal technology from day one
- Professional growth: Build your practice while helping build the firm
- Mission-driven work: Help democratize access to high-quality legal services for startups
About the Company
- We believe ambitious outcomes are possible. We explore unconventional ideas, test them rigorously, and act on the data- learning fast without distraction or comparison.
- Mediocrity has consequences. We set the highest standard in our execution, judgement, and how we show up everyday- because excellence compounds.
- Speed and urgency are habits that when modeled consistently and scaled through automation, become contagious across the team, the product, and our customers.
- Legal work runs on trust, not features. We earn trust by being responsive, transparent, and accountable to our customers- particularly when it’s uncomfortable.
- We pair high standards with empathy and ambition with humanity. Respect and integrity are NOT separate from winning- they are how we win.
Equal Opportunity
- We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic.