Corporate Counsel

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Assist in venture financing, secondary transactions, and various corporate matters.

• Prepare and facilitate board and stockholder approvals.

• Collaborate with external legal counsel on transaction documentation and execution.

• Oversee transaction checklists, signatures, document distribution, and closing processes.

• Organize closing sets and fulfill post-closing obligations.

• Exercise sound judgment on issues that may need escalation or specialist external advice.

• Manage corporate governance procedures and relevant documentation.

• Keep organizational records, minute books, and corporate documents updated.

• Handle state filings, annual reports, and other entity-maintenance tasks.

• Maintain records for subsidiaries and entities.

• Assist in board, stockholder, and other formal corporate approval procedures.

• Administer capitalization tables, equity plans, and equity grants.

• Oversee grants, exercises, transfers, cancellations, and related equity transactions.

• Reconcile equity records and pinpoint discrepancies that need correction.

• Maintain the master corporate data room along with supporting legal documentation.

• Draft and manage routine corporate and legal documents.

• Review documents for accuracy, completeness, and consistency.

• Navigate legal matters from initial drafting to signature and completion.

• Create AI-enabled legal intake and triage workflows.

• Develop scalable processes for highly asynchronous legal settings.

• Produce self-service tools, templates, playbooks, and approval workflows.

• Automate recurring tasks related to NDAs, approvals, signature requests, and similar issues.

• Identify repetitive legal tasks that can be optimized through technology.

• Enhance legal response times, accuracy, and operational scalability.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive experience in supporting venture capital financings, M&A, or similar corporate transactions.

• Strong grasp of transaction documentation, approvals, closing mechanics, and post-closing duties.

• Practical experience with corporate governance, entity management, and state filings.

• Solid knowledge of cap-table management, equity plans, and equity administration.

• Outstanding organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Capability to independently manage tasks from initial instruction to completion.

• Strong legal drafting, proofreading, communication, and project management abilities.

• Sound judgment and an ability to recognize issues that require escalation or external counsel.

• Genuine interest in AI, legal technology, workflow design, and automation.

• Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced and highly asynchronous environment.

• JD with approximately 3+ years of corporate counsel experience in both law firm and in-house settings is preferred.

• Experience working with venture-backed or high-growth technology companies is highly desirable.

• Familiarity with AI tools, workflow automation platforms, Slack integrations, or contract management systems is advantageous.

• Experience in improving or scaling legal processes through technology is a plus.

• Work must be conducted without utilizing any confidential or proprietary information belonging to any employer, client, institution, or other third party.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote position, with the option to work from a San Francisco office.