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About the Role
Pursuit is hiring a General Counsel to own our legal strategy and function, protecting the organization while clearing the path for its next phase of growth. Reporting to the CEO, you will be Pursuit's in-house legal lead, managing outside pro bono support. You will advise the CEO, executive team, and board on governance, compliance, contracts, and complex financial transactions, guiding the legal aspects of our mission-driven organization within a hybrid dual-entity structure and innovative financing models. The ideal candidate is a business-savvy lawyer with an understanding of the non-profit space, capable of moving from strategy to execution and viewing legal work as a tool for mission scaling.
Responsibilities
- Build, refine, and oversee Pursuit's legal strategy in partnership with senior leadership, the board of directors, and outside counsel.
- Provide strategic legal advice to the CEO, executive team, and board that balances legal needs with our values and objectives.
- Build a lean, high-leverage legal function by managing world-class elite pro bono legal counsel and top-tier firms for high-stakes, specialized work.
- Manage paid outside counsel when warranted.
- Guide Pursuit through the legal elements of key initiatives including the AI Jobs Institute and pilots in new regions and revenue streams.
- Drive execution across governance, contracts, and policy.
- Ensure Pursuit complies with all federal, state, and local regulatory requirements.
- Manage any litigation and arbitration matters.
- Manage the interactions among our 501(c)(3), public benefit corporation, and other legal entities.
- Manage and execute Pursuit's financial transactions, including the Pursuit Good Jobs Agreement, charitable donations, recoverable grants, fee-for-service contracts, and other impact investment financing.
- Serve as Pursuit’s in-house counsel for intellectual property and technology matters, advising on ownership, licensing, and use of our curriculum, software, data, and AI tools.
- Shape commercial structures and translate business requirements into sound partnership contracts with vendors, sponsors, employment partners, funders, and donors.
- Create and manage agreements, contracts, and policies with staff, Builders, volunteers, and other community stakeholders.
- Provide legal advice on Employee and Employment Relations issues.
- Use AI to multiply a lean legal function, including contract review and redlining, first drafts, clause libraries and templates, and compliance tracking.
- Help set practical guardrails for how Pursuit uses AI responsibly.
Requirements
- 8+ years of corporate legal experience, including leading legal in-house at a small or midsize organization through a period of growth.
- Deep transactional expertise with contract law as a specialty.
- Experience building legal and compliance processes from scratch.
- Proactive, pragmatic counsel that has helped businesses innovate and scale.
- Experience defining, shaping, and scaling revenue partnerships.
- Ability to be both strategic and tactical, wearing many hats and rolling up sleeves.
- Solutions-oriented approach to managing risk without slowing the organization down.
- Excitement to take on a critical leadership role, partnering with senior leadership on important cross-functional priorities in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
- Comfort using AI tools to draft, analyze, and move work forward quickly.
- Informed perspective on the legal questions AI raises.
- In good standing with the New York Bar, or ability to immediately qualify for Registered In-House Counsel (RIHC) status.
- Deep alignment with Pursuit's mission and genuine interest in the intersection of technology, AI, and economic mobility.
Skills
- Contract law
- Legal strategy
- Governance
- Compliance
- Contracts
- Financial transactions
- Intellectual property
- Technology matters
- Partnership contracts
- Employee and Employment Relations
- AI tools for legal work
- Risk management
Location
- Long Island City
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Fractional (~3 days/week equivalent)
Experience Level
- 8+ years of corporate legal experience
- In-house legal leadership experience
Education Level
- New York Bar in good standing or ability to qualify for Registered In-House Counsel (RIHC) status
Salary/Compensations
- $135,000–$150,000
Benefits
- Full benefits
- 401k match
- Unlimited PTO
- All-Pursuit summer break (last week of August)
- Week-long holiday (last week of December)
- Catered lunches once a week
- Delicious snacks
- Dedicated time to build in AI and hone AI skills
About the Company
- Pursuit is a social impact organization building the future of economic mobility in the age of AI.
- For over a decade, Pursuit has transformed lives through immersive training programs that propel adults from low-income backgrounds into high-growth tech careers.
- Pursuit graduates have generated nearly $1 billion in lifetime wage gains.
- Pursuit pioneered the Pursuit Bond, an innovative outcomes-based financing model.
- Pursuit is evolving into an AI-native organization, training AI-native talent, embedding AI into operations, and building scalable software.
- Pursuit works on grassroots partnerships and national policy to rethink economic opportunity at scale.
Equal Opportunity
- Pursuit Values Diversity.
- Our team has a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, and we value the richness that diversity brings to our organization.
- We welcome new perspectives and affirm that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, age, familial or marital status, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
- Pursuit is an equal opportunity employer.