[Remote] Legal Counsel (Contract)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. super{set} is a company builder that founds and supports data- and AI-native startups. The Legal Counsel supports super{set} and its portfolio companies with day-to-day corporate, commercial, transactional, equity, privacy, compliance, and legal operations work.

Responsibilities

• Support company formations, entity management, governance, and ongoing corporate housekeeping across super{set} and its portfolio
• Prepare and manage routine corporate documents, filings, resolutions, and related materials
• Maintain organized corporate records and identify issues that require attention
• Coordinate with outside counsel on matters requiring specialized expertise
• Draft, review, and negotiate NDAs, employee agreements, vendor agreements, customer agreements, and other routine commercial contracts
• Maintain and improve standard contract templates
• Help business teams move agreements through review and execution efficiently
• Use sound commercial judgment to distinguish between standard issues and matters that require escalation
• Support fundraising, financing, and other transactions across the portfolio
• Assist with diligence, document review, closing processes, and coordination with investors and outside counsel
• Help keep legal workstreams organized and moving toward completion
• Support the super{set} Head of Finance with founder equity, option pools, grants, vesting arrangements, and other equity-related matters
• Help maintain accurate equity records and identify issues early
• Coordinate with relevant advisors on equity administration and related documentation
• Provide practical support on routine privacy, data-use, and AI-related legal questions
• Review relevant contractual and policy considerations as portfolio companies develop products and go to market
• Escalate novel or higher-risk issues appropriately
• Coordinate with external advisors on recurring tax, fund, corporate, and compliance matters
• Support audits, investor reporting, filings, and other ongoing requirements
• Help turn recurring legal work into clear templates, processes, and playbooks
• Keep legal workflows, documentation, and records organized
• Identify opportunities to make routine legal work faster, more consistent, and less dependent on outside counsel

Skills

• 4+ years of legal experience, with meaningful experience handling corporate and commercial matters
• Ability to independently handle routine-to-moderate commercial contracts and corporate matters
• Strong legal judgment and the ability to distinguish between matters you can resolve independently and those requiring senior or specialized counsel
• Experience supporting financings, transactions, corporate governance, equity, or other ongoing corporate workflows
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and follow them through to completion
• Practical, business-oriented approach to legal work, with the ability to balance risk, speed, and business objectives
• Clear written and verbal communication, particularly the ability to explain 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 is strongly preferred
• Worked as in-house counsel at an early-stage or venture-backed company
• Supported multiple companies, business units, or a venture studio / startup ecosystem
• Experience with venture financings, SAFEs, preferred stock financings, or related transaction work
• Experience with equity administration, cap tables, option plans, and founder equity
• Familiarity with privacy, data, or AI-related legal issues
• Experience working with external counsel and managing legal workstreams efficiently
• Built legal templates, playbooks, contract workflows, or other legal operations systems
• Experience working in a lean legal function where you had to exercise significant independent judgment

Benefits

• US remote work; San Francisco Bay Area preferred

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