Legal Counsel (Contract)

RemoteLeads; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

RemoteLeads is seeking a seasoned corporate attorney to join our US-remote team, with preference for candidates in the San Francisco Bay Area.

You will own a broad scope of corporate and commercial matters, including contract drafting and negotiation, governance, financings, equity administration, and scalable legal processes. You will partner with founders and external counsel to move fast in a startup environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of legal experience with corporate and commercial focus.

Responsibilities

• Support company formations, entity management, governance, filings, and records.
• Draft, review, and negotiate NDAs, employment, vendor, and customer agreements.
• Support financings, fundraising, diligence, closings, and investor coordination.
• Assist with founder equity, option pools, cap tables, and equity docs.
• Provide guidance on privacy, data-use, and AI-related legal matters.
• Coordinate tax, fund, compliance, audit, investor reporting with external advisors.
• Maintain corporate records, contracts, equity docs, and workflows.
• Create templates, playbooks, processes, and systems for recurring work.
• Manage routine to moderate legal matters independently; escalate complex issues.

Skills

Legal experience

Contract negotiation

Corporate governance

Drafting contracts

Diligence

Communication skills

Job description

Description:

• Support company formations, entity management, governance, filings, resolutions, and corporate housekeeping.
• Draft, review, and negotiate routine commercial contracts, including NDAs, employment, vendor, and customer agreements.
• Support financings, fundraising, diligence, closings, and coordination with investors and outside counsel.
• Assist with founder equity, option pools, grants, vesting arrangements, cap tables, and equity documentation.
• Provide practical guidance on routine privacy, data-use, and AI-related legal matters, escalating higher-risk issues.
• Coordinate recurring tax, fund, compliance, audit, investor reporting, and filing requirements with external advisors.
• Maintain organized corporate records, contracts, equity documentation, and legal workflows.
• Create and improve templates, playbooks, processes, and systems to make recurring legal work more efficient.
• Manage routine-to-moderate legal matters independently and escalate complex issues appropriately.

Requirements:

• 4+ years of legal experience with meaningful corporate and commercial experience.
• Ability to independently handle routine-to-moderate commercial contracts and corporate matters.
• Strong legal judgment, organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple workstreams.
• Experience supporting financings, transactions, corporate governance, equity, or ongoing corporate workflows.
• Practical, business-oriented approach balancing legal risk, speed, and business objectives.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining legal issues in straightforward business terms.
• High agency and comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
• In-house experience at a startup, scale-up, venture-backed company, or similar environment preferred.
• Experience with venture financings, SAFEs, preferred stock, equity administration, cap tables, or option plans preferred.
• Familiarity with privacy, data, AI legal issues, external counsel management, or legal operations systems preferred.

Benefits:

• US-remote work opportunity, with preference for candidates in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• Meaningful ownership of legal work from day one with autonomy on routine-to-moderate matters.
• Exposure to the full lifecycle of multiple early-stage companies and direct partnership with founders.
• Opportunity to work alongside experienced builders and senior counsel on complex legal and strategic matters.