General Counsel

Responsibilities

Executive Leadership & Strategy

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO, COO, executive team, and Board
• Help leadership identify, prioritize, and manage legal, regulatory, and business risk
• Build the legal function from the ground up
• Translate legal complexity into practical business judgment
• Help the company move quickly while making better, more informed decisions

Commercial & Enterprise Contracting

• Own legal support for customer contracts, especially complex enterprise agreements
• Partner with GTM, finance, product, security, and operations teams to accelerate enterprise deals
• Help legal become a force multiplier for revenue rather than a bottleneck

Provider, Vendor & Strategic Partner Agreements

• Support contracting with model providers, infrastructure providers, labs, vendors, and other strategic partners
• Help standardize agreements across a large and growing provider ecosystem
• Partner with business teams to manage legal risk across both supply and demand sides of the platform
• Oversee vendor, technology, software, infrastructure, and other third-party commercial agreements

Compliance, Trust & Safety & Platform Governance

• Own the high-level legal and compliance roadmap for a rapidly evolving AI platform
• Partner with Trust & Safety, Security, Product, and Operations on platform policies and enforcement frameworks
• Oversee terms of service, privacy, acceptable use policies, sanctions/export controls, jurisdictional restrictions, and related compliance matters
• Build practical compliance processes that fit the company's stage, speed, and risk profile
• Monitor emerging AI regulatory developments and convert them into operational guidance

Corporate, Financing, Governance & M&A

• Manage corporate governance, Board matters, subsidiary structure, and investor-related legal work
• Lead internal coordination on future financings and strategic transactions
• Oversee legal aspects of acquisitions, including diligence, negotiation, closing, and integration

Employment & People Operations

• Serve as the primary legal partner to the People team and leadership

Legal Operations & Team Building

• Create a clear intake, prioritization, and ownership model for legal work
• Manage existing contractors and outside counsel
• Build a team and legal culture that is responsive, trusted, practical, and deeply embedded in the business

Requirements

• J.D. and active bar membership
• 10+ years of relevant legal experience
• Significant experience with technology companies, venture-backed companies, commercial contracting, corporate transactions, M&A, or financing
• Experience advising executives on strategic legal and business issues
• Strong commercial judgment and ability to balance speed, risk, and business outcomes
• Ability to manage multiple legal domains without needing a large team on day one
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build trust across functions

Nice-to-Haves

• Prior experience as a General Counsel, Deputy General Counsel, or senior in-house legal leader
• Experience building or scaling a legal function
• Experience with AI, software infrastructure, marketplaces, developer platforms, cloud, data, or other emerging technologies
• Experience managing complex enterprise customer negotiations
• Experience with provider, vendor, or platform ecosystem agreements
• Familiarity with trust & safety, privacy, sanctions/export controls, AI regulation, or platform compliance
• Experience with M&A, venture financings, Board governance, and post-acquisition integration