Backed by Emergence Capital.
About the role
We're hiring our first in-house lawyer — a founding legal seat. This is not a compliance or governance role; it's a deal acceleration role. You'll own the commercial side end to end, and as our first lawyer you'll also carry the wider legal work as it lands: corporate, employment, privacy, IP, real estate, entity and international matters. Own all commercial contract negotiation and execution — MSAs, DPAs, Order Forms, amendments, renewals Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- A senior commercial/transactional lawyer (roughly 8–14 years), ideally at a high-growth enterprise SaaS, with series rounds and/or IPO exposure
- Deep experience with enterprise MSAs, DPAs, data privacy frameworks (GDPR, CCPA, APPI) and security addenda
- Has built a contract playbook before — you turn bespoke legal work into repeatable, scalable processes
- Breadth beyond commercial: hands-on with at least 2 of corporate/financing, employment, privacy/cyber incidents, IP, real estate, or tax/entity work — and good judgment on what to keep vs. send to outside counsel
- Japan/APPI: has owned APPI-compliant terms or cross-border data deals with Japanese counterparties (not just awareness)
- Comfortable working embedded in a sales team, not in a legal silo
More about this role
We're hiring our first in-house lawyer — a founding legal seat. This is not a compliance or governance role; it's a deal acceleration role. You'll own the commercial side end to end, and as our first lawyer you'll also carry the wider legal work as it lands: corporate, employment, privacy, IP, real estate, entity and international matters.
Own all commercial contract negotiation and execution — MSAs, DPAs, Order Forms, amendments, renewals
Review and turn customer redlines in hours, not days
Build and maintain a contract playbook — pre-approved fallback positions, self-serve templates, approved language library
Work directly with the sales team — know which deals are strategic and which redlines matter
Own Japan APPI compliance and addenda for our growing JP enterprise business
Take on the wider in-house workstream as it lands — corporate/financing, employment, privacy and cyber incidents, IP, real estate, entity/tax — and judge what to handle in-house vs. send out
Manage outside counsel and drive down external counsel spend
Partner with Customer Success on renewal and expansion contract terms
Build scalable legal processes so SMB/MM self-serves where possible, while Enterprise...
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