About this role
Role Overview
Drive the corporate legal work that keeps financings, governance, equity matters, and transactions moving from initial drafting through closing and post-closing execution. This full-time role combines hands-on transactional ownership with the opportunity to build AI-enabled legal workflows, self-service tools, and automations for a highly asynchronous, Slack-driven environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Support venture financings, secondary transactions, board and stockholder approvals, and related corporate matters, including document drafting and coordination with outside counsel.
- Manage transaction execution, including signatures, checklists, document circulation, closing sets, and post-closing work.
- Maintain an accurate, current, and well-organized master data room and corporate records.
- Oversee corporate governance and entity administration, including state filings, annual reports, minute books, organizational documents, and subsidiary records.
- Administer cap tables, equity plans, and equity grants, including grants, exercises, transfers, cancellations, and equity-record reconciliations.
- Draft and manage routine corporate and legal documents independently, using sound judgment about when to escalate issues or involve outside counsel.
- Design AI-enabled legal intake and triage workflows.
- Create self-service tools, templates, playbooks, and automation for recurring processes such as NDAs, approvals, and signature requests.
- Identify repetitive legal work and develop systems that improve the legal function''s speed, accuracy, and scalability.
Qualifications
- Significant experience supporting venture capital financings, M&A, or comparable corporate transactions, with strong knowledge of transaction documents, approvals, and closing processes.
- Strong experience in corporate governance, entity management, state filings, cap tables, and equity administration.
- Foundational law-firm training and hands-on corporate counsel experience are preferred.
- JD and at least 3 years of corporate counsel experience supporting venture transactions.
- Exceptional organization, attention to detail, drafting, proofreading, project management, and communication skills.
- Ability to independently lead matters from start to finish, identify issues requiring escalation or outside counsel, and work collaboratively across legal and operational responsibilities.
- Genuine interest in AI, legal technology, workflow design, and automation.
- Comfort working autonomously in a fast-paced, highly asynchronous environment.
Work Terms
- Full-time position.
- Remote, with an opportunity to work from the San Francisco office.
Compensation
$225, 000 to $275, 000 per year.