USACorporate Counsel
3 дн. назад
USARemote
Legal role at an AI research and product company focusing on AI voice and media platforms.
Обязанности
- We are seeking an experienced Corporate Counsel to join our Legal Team. In this role you will work closely with the General Counsel in the corporate legal function, with a primary focus on M&A, strategic investments, financings, global expansion and overall public readiness. This role will work closely with Finance, People, and other teams around acquisition structure and post-acquisition integration, the company's fundraising and equity programs. Additionally, you will assist with designing the processes, agreements, frameworks and ways the broader team and business approach transactional and governance matters.
- Responsibilities
- Legal lead for acquisitions, strategic investments, joint ventures, and other corporate transactions through the full lifecycle, including post-closing integration and structure.
- Serve as the primary legal partner to Finance and Operations on deal strategy and execution, giving clear recommendations to key stakeholders.
- Support the company's fundraising, including diligence, financing documents, side letters, investor rights, and coordination with outside counsel across a compressed timeline.
- Partner with Finance and People on ' equity programs, including option and RSU grants, plan amendments, cap table hygiene, 409A process, and secondaries and tender offers.
- Work with Finance, Tax and Operations on global expansion efforts
- Advise on securities law questions that come with a fast-scaling private company.
- Support corporate governance and entity work, including proper approvals, and subsidiary formation.
- Design, maintain, and continuously improve templates, playbooks, diligence checklists, approval workflows, and signing and closing infrastructure to scale the corporate function.
- Provide clear, pragmatic, and commercially focused legal advice to cross-functional teams, tailoring advice to enable responsible growth.
- Who you are
- Curious about the future of AI and emerging technologies, have a strong sense of ownership with enthusiasm for applying your legal expertise to a company moving at unusual speed.
- Experienced in navigating fast-paced, high-growth environments, with the ability to manage ambiguity and make informed, timely decisions.
- A strong project manager who can run several live deals at once without dropping threads, and who chases the answer rather than waiting for it.
- Comfortable working independently while collaborating effectively with cross-functional and global colleagues.
- Proactive, business-minded, and committed to delivering practical solutions that support both compliance and commercial success.
- Interested in building the function, not just staffing the deals, and willing to leave behind better process than you found.
- Hunger to be exceptional at your job.
- What you bring
- J.D. and active membership in at least one U.S. State Bar.
- 6+ years of relevant post-qualification legal experience at a major law firm, a high-growth technology company, or both.
- Proven track record drafting and negotiating M&A and investment documents, including purchase agreements, term sheets, disclosure schedules, and ancillary deal documents as well as post acquisition integration.
- Substantive experience with venture or growth-stage financings and the securities law questions that come with them.
- Working knowledge of equity compensation, including plan administration, grant mechanics, and liquidity events such as secondaries and tender offers.
- Strong corporate generalist instincts, with enough governance and entity experience to keep transactions clean on the back end.
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
- Comfort in fast-paced environments with shifting priorities and tight deadlines.
- Public company experience strongly preferred
- Location
- This role is remote and can be executed in the United States, with a preference for New York or San Francisco, where the company has offices and significant presence.
- We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or other legally protected statuses.
Условия
- Innovative culture: You’ll be part of a generational opportunity to define the trajectory of AI, surrounded by a team pushing the boundaries of what’s possible.
- Growth paths: Joining means joining a dynamic team with countless opportunities to drive impact - beyond your immediate role and responsibilities.
- Learning & development : proactively supports professional development through an annual discretionary stipend.
- Social travel : We also provide an annual discretionary stipend to meet up with colleagues each year, however you choose.
- Annual company offsite: Each year, we bring the entire team together in a new location - past offsites have included Croatia and Italy.
- Co-working : If you’re not located near one of our main hubs, we offer a monthly co-working stipend.
Другое
- is an AI research and product company transforming how we interact with technology.
- We launched in January 2023 with the first human-like AI voice model. Today, we serve millions of users and thousands of businesses - from fast-growing startups to large enterprises like Deutsche Telekom and Meta. Our investors are some of the world's most prominent, including Andreessen Horowitz, ICONIQ Growth and Sequoia. We've raised $781M in funding and our last valuation was $11B - multiples of 11, always. We have expanded from voice into three main platforms:
- ElevenAgents enables businesses to deliver seamless and intelligent customer experiences, with the integrations, testing, monitoring, and reliability necessary to deploy voice and chat agents at scale.
- ElevenCreative empowers creators and marketers to generate and edit speech, music, image, and video across 70+ languages.
- ElevenAPI gives developers access to our leading AI audio foundational models.
- Everything we do is the result of the creativity and commitment of our team - builders doing the best work of their lives. We are researchers, engineers, and operators. IOI medalists and ex-founders. If you want to work hard and create lasting positive impact, we want to hear from you.
- High-velocity: Rapid experimentation, lean autonomous teams, and minimal bureaucracy.
- Impact not job titles: We don’t have job titles. Instead, it’s about the impact you have. No task is above or beneath you.
- AI first: We use AI to move faster with higher-quality results. We do this across the whole company—from engineering to growth to operations.
- Excellence everywhere: Everything we do should match the quality of our AI models.
- Global team: We prioritize your talent, not your location.