Corporate Counsel (Contractor)

present of AI; United States; Remote; USD 165,000 - 358,000; Part time

Job summary

Arceus offers a fractional corporate counsel role for startups and growth-stage tech companies, covering formation through priced financings. A strong candidate has several years in emerging companies and venture practice, with deep Delaware corporate mechanics knowledge and cap table hygiene.

The position emphasizes delivering SAFE, convertible notes, and priced rounds from the company side, and turning recurring work into repeatable AI-assisted playbooks.

Qualifications

• Several years of emerging companies and venture practice.
• Strong knowledge of Delaware corporate mechanics.
• Experience keeping cap tables clean and accurate.
• Ability to run SAFEs, convertible notes, and priced rounds from the company side.
• Comfort with templates and AI-assisted workflows to standardize recurring work.

Responsibilities

• Provide fractional corporate counsel services for startups and growth-stage tech companies.
• Cover the full company lifecycle from formation through financings.
• Draft, review, and negotiate corporate & financing documents from the company's perspective.
• Develop playbooks and templates for recurring governance and financing matters.

Skills

Startup law

Deal strategy

Process thinking

Tools

Cap table platforms

E-signature flows

Templates & AI workflows

Job description

This is a fractional corporate counsel role for startups and growth stage tech companies, covering the full company lifecycle from formation through priced financings. A strong candidate has several years of emerging companies and venture practice, knows Delaware corporate mechanics well, keeps cap tables clean, and can run SAFE, convertible note, and priced rounds from the company side. Comfort with templates and AI assisted workflows matters because part of the job is turning recurring work into repeatable playbooks.

How it fits the AI era

The firm pairs attorneys with AI agents and its own software to review, draft, and negotiate contracts, so much of the routine drafting and document handling is shared with tools. What stays human is judgment on governance, deal strategy, and explaining rights and preferences clearly to founders. The role also asks the attorney to help build the workflows themselves, so process thinking becomes part of the legal work.

How it builds AI experience

Working here gives hands on exposure to AI assisted legal workflows inside a firm that builds its own software, plus a seat helping shape templates and quality bars with product and engineering. Someone preparing for this should get familiar with cap table platforms and e-signature closing flows, and show real interest in how AI tools fit contract and corporate work.

Worth showing

• Delaware corporate mechanics
• Company side venture financings
• Cap table hygiene
• Playbook and template building
• AI assisted legal workflows

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About Arceus

Arceus is a law firm that pairs licensed U.S. attorneys with AI agents and its own CounselOS software to review, draft, and negotiate commercial contracts, per the company.