VP, Legal

SynthBee, Inc.; Florida; On-site; USD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

SynthBee, Inc. is hiring its inaugural VP, Legal to architect the company’s legal framework. This leadership role will guide all legal affairs and build a scalable department that supports fast growth while maintaining ethics and compliance.

Based in Pembroke Pines, FL, this in-person, full-time role requires strategic counsel and hands-on execution across commercial contracts, IP, employment law, governance, and regulatory matters worldwide.

Qualifications

• Operational Excellence with hands-on problem solving.
• Collaborative leadership with a service mindset.
• Technological proficiency and use of legal-tech to scale the function.
• Strategic agility balancing detailed review and big-picture planning.
• Entrepreneurial resilience in ambiguity and fast-growth contexts.

Responsibilities

• Departmental Architecture: Design foundational legal processes, governance standards, and scalable document management systems.
• Commercial Transactions: Lead drafting, negotiation, and management of high-volume contracts and NDAs with risk mitigation.
• Intellectual Property Strategy: Manage global IP portfolio, including trademarks and patent strategies.
• Employment & Compliance: Advise on employment law matters, equity compensation structures, and regulatory compliance.
• Corporate Governance: Manage board documentation, corporate records, and regulatory filings.
• Strategic Advisory: Partner with executive leadership to drive rapid, compliant decision-making in a high-growth environment.

Skills

Operational Excellence

Collaborative Leadership

Technological Proficiency

Strategic Agility

Entrepreneurial Resilience

Tools

Legal tech

Job description

ABOUT SYNTHBEE

SynthBee was founded to build safe, scalable, and reliable Collaborative Intelligence™ to amplify human innovation. We apply our novel computing intelligence platform to complex, mission-critical systems across healthcare, defense, aerospace, automotive, robotics, security, climate, and more—for customers who demand reliability, transparency, and ethics above all.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As the inaugural legal hire for SynthBee, the VP, Legal will serve as the primary architect of the organization’s legal framework. This individual will assume full leadership of all legal affairs during this critical growth phase, providing both high-level strategic counsel and hands‑on operational execution. The successful candidate will transition the company from its current state to a fully‑realized legal department, ensuring that legal strategy serves as a catalyst for business velocity rather than a bureaucratic constraint.

Core Responsibilities

• Departmental Architecture: Design and implement foundational legal processes, corporate governance standards, and scalable document management systems.
• Commercial Transactions: Lead the drafting, negotiation, and management of high‑volume commercial contracts, vendor agreements, and non‑disclosure agreements with a focus on efficiency and risk mitigation.
• Intellectual Property Strategy: Oversee the global IP portfolio, including the management of trademark filings and patent strategies to safeguard the company’s core innovations.
• Employment & Compliance: Advise on complex employment law matters, equity compensation structures, and regulatory compliance across domestic and international jurisdictions.
• Corporate Governance: Manage board‑related documentation, corporate records, and regulatory filings to ensure constant readiness for future financing rounds or audits.
• Strategic Advisory: Act as a dedicated partner to the executive leadership team, delivering pragmatic, solution‑oriented advice that facilitates rapid decision‑making in a high‑growth environment.

Candidate Profile

• Operational Excellence: You possess a mindset characterized by a relentless internal drive for perfection and a hands‑on approach to problem‑solving.
• Collaborative Leadership: You maintain a high‑service, low‑ego professional demeanor, viewing internal stakeholders as clients and prioritizing the collective success of the organization over personal hierarchy.
• Technological Proficiency: You are adept at leveraging legal‑tech to optimize workflows and scale the legal function without proportional increases in headcount.
  Deep knowledge of tech transactions preferred.
• Strategic Agility: You demonstrate the ability to oscillate between granular contract review and high‑level strategic planning, maintaining a fast‑paced momentum without compromising legal integrity.
• Entrepreneurial Resilience: You thrive in ambiguity and possess the judgment to determine when to prioritize speed and when to apply rigorous legal scrutiny.

At SynthBee, we value unique perspectives, transferable skills, and a genuine growth mindset. If this work excites you and your experience aligns with the core responsibilities, we want to hear from you.

YOU SHOULD APPLY IF

You love solving problems that don’t have textbook answers. You build as naturally as you think, and you want your work to matter—for people, for the planet, for the future of intelligence. You’re creative, imaginative, and deeply ethical. You believe in decency and collaboration. You are not here to follow the crowd.

WORKING CONDITIONS

This is a full‑time, in‑person role at SynthBee HQ in Pembroke Pines, FL, Monday through Friday. The role requires extended periods of computer use, research, and code development. Our office is a dynamic, high‑energy environment built for the kind of deep collaboration and creative problem‑solving that thrives in person. Reasonable accommodations will be provided in accordance with the ADA. Please refer to the BeeKeeper’s Guide for details.

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU

SynthBee is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, or local law. We offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and generous paid time off.