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About the role
We're looking for a highly pragmatic, business-minded Corporate Counsel to join Paraform's growing team and serve as our first Legal hire. You'll partner with teams across the company, helping us navigate the increasingly complex legal questions that come with scaling a high-growth technology company and marketplace.
What they're looking for
- Active membership in the California Bar, or active membership in another U.S. jurisdiction with eligibility and willingness to register as California Registered In-House Counsel
- 2+ years of relevant legal experience, including experience advising technology or high-growth companies
- Experience advising marketplace, platform, or recruiting/staffing businesses, including legal and regulatory issues related to marketplace operations, worker classification, and customer/provider relationships
- Strong commercial experience, including drafting and negotiating customer, vendor, partnership, and other business agreements
- Ability to work across a broad range of legal matters, including corporate, commercial, employment, product, privacy, and emerging issues
- Strong business judgment with the ability to assess risk and provide practical, actionable guidance
More about this role
We're looking for a highly pragmatic, business-minded Corporate Counsel to join Paraform's growing team and serve as our first Legal hire. You'll partner with teams across the company, helping us navigate the increasingly complex legal questions that come with scaling a high-growth technology company and marketplace.
This is a broad, hands-on role. You'll move between negotiating commercial agreements, advising on marketplace and employment issues, partnering with Product on new features, supporting corporate matters, and helping build the legal processes and infrastructure that allow the business to scale.
We're looking for someone comfortable operating with ambiguity, who can balance risk with business needs, exercise strong judgment, and help find practical paths forward.
Commercial: Draft, review, and negotiate customer, vendor, partnership, and other commercial agreements; help develop scalable contracting processes and templates.
Product & Marketplace: Partner with Product and Operations on new products, marketplace policies, recruiter/customer relationships, and evolving legal and regulatory questions.
Employment: Support the People team on employment matters, including...
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