Corporate Counsel
First in-house Corporate Counsel at a privacy-first mobile carrier. Owns broad legal needs including government contracts, regulatory compliance, IP, employment, and commercial agreements while building legal processes from scratch.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Own legal needs across the company, spanning interactions with regulatory agencies, government and commercial contracts, employment matters, and IP risks.
- Serve as the primary legal point of contact for internal stakeholders across Engineering, Product, Business Development, and Operations - acting as a true mini-GC for the business.
- Establish, scale, and manage Cape’s internal legal processes, templates (e.g. MSAs, NDAs), and compliance frameworks (e.g. FCC, state licensing).
- Build and manage a curated outside counsel network, directing external lawyers on complex matters and deciding when and how to engage them.
- Partner with our government contracts team and outside counsel on FARS/DFARS, contract formation, teaming agreements, and compliance questions as we execute on defense programs.
- Professionalize how Cape thinks about legal risk - establish processes and frameworks where none currently exist.
- Work closely with leadership on corporate matters, partnerships, and transactions as the business scales.
Requirements
- JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing.
- Typically requires 3-8+ years of legal experience, ideally with a mix of top-tier law firm training and early-stage/growth startup experience.
- Genuine interest in getting conversant in new areas - you don't need to walk in knowing government contracts or telecom regulation, but you need to be the kind of lawyer who gets up to speed fast and earns the trust of engineers, sales professionals, and outside specialists alike.
- The instincts of a builder: you're comfortable being the first person to own something, and you'd rather figure it out than wait for a playbook.
- Comfort operating with ambiguity and across functions - you're as effective in a room with engineers as you are with outside counsel.
- A long-term interest in a broad, general practice - whether that means GC one day or just continuing to do interesting work across a wide range of areas.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with government contracts (FARS/DFARS), telecom regulation (FCC), AI, IP, employment law, or privacy.
Skills
Government Contracts, Fars, Dfars, Fcc Compliance, Ip Law, Commercial Contracts, Employment Law, Regulatory Affairs, Ai Regulation, Telecom Regulation
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