General Counsel

Perry Weather; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office in Oak Lawn

Health insurance

401(k) with employer matching

Voluntary benefits

Team events

Job summary

Perry Weather is seeking a General Counsel to be the company’s first in-house lawyer. You will report to the President and shape the legal function as the business scales internationally.

You will lead all contracts, governance, IP, privacy, security, and compliance, partnering with leadership, CFO, and outside counsel as needed.

Qualifications

• First legal hire; hands-on builder responsible for establishing a legal function.
• Experience handling customer contracts, commercial agreements, and corporate governance.
• Knowledge of employment, IP, privacy, security, and regulatory compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead negotiation of customer contracts and renewals across verticals.
• Own partnership, reseller, vendor, NDAs, leases, and other commercial agreements.
• Handle entity governance, financings, banking relations, and corporate transactions.

Skills

Contract negotiations

Regulatory compliance

Corporate governance

Employment law

Intellectual property

Privacy & security

Leadership

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Tools

Contract management software

Docusign

Job description

About Perry Weather

Perry Weather is the weather safety standard for organizations that operate outdoors. We combine on-site weather hardware with a software platform that automates alerts, siren activations, and safety decisions for more than 3,000 organizations — from the PGA of America, the NFL, and MLB to Turner Construction, thousands of school districts, cities, and golf courses. We've grown 80%+ annually for five consecutive years, and are continuing to grow.

We're headquartered in Dallas at The Centrum, in the Oak Lawn neighborhood, where our teams work together every day to help organizations make faster and safer decisions when weather puts people, assets, and operations at risk.

About the Role

As General Counsel at Perry Weather, you'll be our first legal hire, reporting directly to the President and owning everything legal across the company. This is a hands‑on, builder role, laying the foundations of a Legal function. As we grow, the role grows with us — laying the legal groundwork for international expansion and supporting potential M&A as our strategy evolves.

Responsibilities

• Customer contract negotiations. Lead negotiation of new customer contracts and renewals across our verticals — including enterprise, government, and public‑sector customers (school districts, cities, state agencies, and cooperative purchasing programs) — working closely with sales to keep deals moving without sacrificing the company's position.

• Commercial agreements. Own partnership, referral, and reseller agreements, vendor and supplier agreements (SaaS, data, and hardware suppliers), staffing and consulting agreements, NDAs, real estate leases, and other commercial agreements.

• Corporate legal. Handle entity governance, bylaws, and other corporate matters, and support financings, banking relationships, and other corporate transactions alongside our CFO.

• Employment and IP. Support employment matters (offer letters, separation agreements, contractor arrangements) alongside our People function, and manage the protection of our intellectual property.

• Privacy, security, and compliance. Handle the legal side of data privacy, security, and compliance matters, partnering with our CTO.

• Everything else legal. You are the point person for all things Legal at Perry Weather, including coordination of outside counsel for various specialty matters.

• Build the legal function. As our first legal hire, you'll build the function from scratch:

  • Templates and playbooks. Standardize our customer contract templates and build negotiation playbooks with pre-approved fallback positions so deals move faster and sales knows what is negotiable.

  • Contracting process. Create a legal intake and review process with clear SLAs, so the business knows when legal is needed and gets fast turnaround when it is.

  • Legal tech stack. Own and level up our legal tooling —AI-assisted contract review, document management, etc.

  • Obligation and renewal tracking. Stand up visibility into contract terms, renewals, and surviving obligations across customers, vendors, and leases.

  • Outside counsel. Consolidate and manage our outside counsel relationships and the legal budget, deciding what stays in-house vs. goes outside.

  • Counsel to leadership. Be a pragmatic advisor to the President and leadership team, and train the broader team on contracting basics and legal risk.

Benefits

• You’ll want to come into the office. Our Oak Lawn office isn't just a place to sit — it's where ideas move fast and culture stays strong. The whole team is here Monday through Friday, which means real collaboration, no chasing people down over Slack, and a genuinely fun place to spend your work days.

• Your wellbeing is covered. Competitive health insurance, 401(k) with employer matching, and a full suite of voluntary benefits, because you shouldn't have to think twice about the basics.

• Good people, good times. Monthly All-Hands, Office Olympics, happy hours, and more. We take the work seriously and the culture seriously too.

• You're getting in early, and that matters. We're growing fast, but the biggest opportunities are still ahead. The people joining now will help shape what Perry Weather becomes.