General Counsel

Role Overview

THIS IS A HEAD OF LEGAL / CORPORATE COUNSEL

Remote (U.S. -- PST Preferred) | High-Growth AI SaaS Company

We're partnering with a fast-scaling AI SaaS company that is looking to hire a hands-on legal leader to help build and scale its legal function. This is a highly visible role reporting directly to executive leadership and partnering closely with the Board, Product, Sales, Finance, HR, and external counsel.

This is not a narrow contracts role. We are looking for someone commercial, pragmatic, and execution-oriented who enjoys operating in a high-growth environment and building legal infrastructure from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the company's lead internal legal partner across commercial, corporate, operational, and strategic matters.
• Draft, review, and negotiate complex B2B SaaS agreements including MSAs, DPAs, NDAs, vendor agreements, privacy/security terms, and enterprise customer contracts.
• Build scalable legal infrastructure including templates, playbooks, intake processes, approval workflows, escalation paths, and contract lifecycle processes.
• Partner closely with Sales, Product, Finance, HR, and Customer teams to support business growth while managing legal risk.
• Advise on AI governance, GDPR/CCPA, data privacy, enterprise security commitments, and emerging regulatory matters.
• Support corporate governance, board materials, entity management, and investor-related legal processes.
• Oversee equity administration matters including cap table coordination, stock options/RSUs, 409A processes, and governance support.
• Help drive international legal/compliance coordination across the U.S., Canada, and India operations.
• Manage outside counsel relationships across specialized legal matters including employment, litigation, tax, financing, and regulatory work.
• Improve operational speed and consistency across enterprise contracting and legal decision-making processes.

Qualifications

• 5--8+ years of experience in a high-growth B2B SaaS, AI, enterprise software, or technology environment.
• Background as a Head of Legal, VP Legal, Deputy GC, Associate GC, or strong Senior Corporate Counsel.
• Strong commercial contracting experience in enterprise SaaS environments.
• Experience supporting governance, equity administration, board processes, and cross-functional legal operations.
• Familiarity with AI governance, privacy, data security, GDPR/CCPA, and cross-border legal/compliance matters.
• Proven ability to build legal processes, templates, negotiation standards, and scalable workflows from scratch.
• Strong business judgment with the ability to balance legal risk, speed, and commercial outcomes.
• Comfortable operating in lean, fast-moving, high-growth environments.
• Excellent executive communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Law firm training combined with startup/growth-stage in-house experience strongly preferred.

Compensation

• Total compensation: $200K--$250K USD (inclusive of performance bonus).
• Equity package included - 50-75K (approx).
• Fully remote within North America (PST preferred).

This is an opportunity to build and shape the legal function inside a rapidly growing AI company operating at the intersection of enterprise software, automation, and AI governance.