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About the Role
Pocket is seeking a Fractional General Counsel to manage and scale the company's legal operations globally. This role involves coordinating external law firms, setting legal priorities, and ensuring efficient resolution of legal matters. The ideal candidate will identify necessary actions, assign them appropriately, and drive them to completion, serving as the central legal point of contact.
Responsibilities
- Own and prioritize the company's legal roadmap and day-to-day legal matters.
- Serve as the primary point of contact for external law firms.
- Coordinate legal work across internal teams and external counsel.
- Track legal matters, deadlines, deliverables, and outstanding decisions.
- Manage outside counsel relationships, budgets, and legal spend.
- Build scalable legal processes, infrastructure, and approval workflows.
- Proactively identify and escalate material legal risks.
- Coordinate corporate governance and board-related matters.
- Oversee equity, ESOP, stock options, and capitalization matters.
- Support fundraising, financing, and corporate transactions.
- Work closely with external corporate counsel.
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements.
- Oversee vendor, manufacturing, partnership, and enterprise agreements.
- Manage NDAs and other day-to-day contracts.
- Develop standardized contract templates and approval processes.
- Oversee employment and contractor agreements.
- Coordinate employee separations and related documentation.
- Manage IP assignment and confidentiality matters.
- Support employee policies, handbooks, and HR compliance.
- Coordinate immigration and employment-law matters with specialist counsel.
- Coordinate privacy, data protection, and consumer protection matters.
- Oversee product-related regulatory and compliance requirements.
- Support the development of internal compliance programs.
- Coordinate litigation and disputes with external counsel.
- Ensure legal advice translates into clear, actionable business decisions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of relevant legal experience, ideally combining leading law firm and in-house experience.
- Experience advising venture-backed, high-growth technology companies.
- Strong foundation in corporate governance and commercial agreements.
- Working knowledge of employment, privacy, compliance, and litigation management.
- Experience coordinating multiple external law firms and legal workstreams.
- Ability to operate independently and exercise sound legal judgment.
- Highly practical, commercially minded, and execution-oriented.
- Ability to distinguish material business risks from theoretical legal concerns.
- Comfortable working directly with founders and senior leadership.
- Strong organizational skills and a bias toward action.
- Builder mentality — excited to create scalable legal infrastructure rather than inherit an established department.
- Experience with consumer technology, hardware, AI, international operations, or high-growth DTC businesses is a strong plus.
Location
- Primarily focused on U.S. legal matters
Work Type
- Fractional / Part-Time
- Ongoing engagement with regular availability throughout the working week.
- Expected commitment: approximately 1–3 hours per business day, with flexibility based on company needs.
- Close collaboration with the founding team.
Experience Level
- 8+ years of relevant legal experience
About the Company
- Pocket is a Y Combinator W26 company building a premium hardware plus software product in the AI voice recorder space.
- We are obsessed with quality and speed.
- We are scaling very fast in the US and now European markets and building a device experience that can become the category leader.