Lead Counsel
Role Overview
As Lead Counsel, you will build the legal function from scratch for a three-sided roofing marketplace, advising executives on corporate, commercial, employment, privacy, and product matters. This senior role involves owning commercial contracting, managing company financings, and supporting revenue partnerships to ensure fast, risk-calibrated decisions. You will have significant impact by creating scalable systems and playbooks, directly influencing business growth and legal strategy.
Perks & Benefits
This remote role offers a competitive salary with meaningful equity, unlimited PTO, and a 5% 401(k) match. Benefits include 100% paid medical and parental leave, a $20 daily team lunch stipend, and a $100 monthly cell phone credit, fostering a supportive and flexible work environment. While time zone expectations are not specified, remote work allows for autonomy, with opportunities for career growth through ownership of legal functions and strategic projects.
Full Job Description
As Lead Counsel at Remi, you will help build the legal function from the ground up for the world’s first three-sided roofing marketplace. You will be the go-to partner to our founders and operators across corporate, commercial, employment, privacy and security, and product questions, shipping pragmatic answers that keep deals moving without slowing the business. If you like ownership, building systems from zero to one, and learning a fascinating industry fast, you will fit right in.
Responsibilities
Be our first line of counsel. Advise executives on day-to-day corporate, commercial, product, and employment issues with clear, business-forward guidance.
Own commercial contracting. Stand up a scalable contracting stack and drive fast, high-quality negotiations with enterprise partners and vendors.
Lead company financings and governance. Manage cap table hygiene, board matters, equity plans, secondary transactions, and future venture or credit rounds with outside counsel.
Support revenue and partnerships. Structure MSAs and SOWs, channel and affiliate arrangements, data-sharing, warranties, and service terms that balance risk and speed.
Manage outside counsel. Set scopes, budgets, and SLAs for specialists, and hold firms accountable.
Privacy, security, and compliance. Partner with Security and Engineering on SOC 2 and ISO efforts, DPAs, data mapping, incident response, marketing claims, and regulatory inquiries.
M&A and strategic projects. Run diligence, term sheets, and integration playbooks as we scale.
Dispute prevention and management. Create practical playbooks for demand letters, pre-litigation resolution, lien and collections, and vendor or customer escalations.
Required Qualifications
6 to 7 years of post-JD experience with substantial emerging companies and venture work and commercial or technology transactions, primarily company-side.
Training at a top startup firm (for example Wilson Sonsini, Cooley, Fenwick, Orrick, Gunderson, Goodwin, Pillsbury) or equivalent experience.
Demonstrated ownership leading Series A or B financings and enterprise commercial negotiations (indemnities, limitation of liability, security exhibits, DPAs).
Strong grasp of cap tables, equity plans, board governance, and secondary transactions.
Comfort building processes and playbooks from scratch and making crisp, risk-calibrated calls in ambiguity.
Excellent written and verbal communication with a calm, practical bedside manner.
Licensed to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction and eligible for Utah in-house counsel (or willing to pursue the Utah bar).
Benefits
Competitive salary with meaningful equity, real ownership in what you build
Unlimited PTO
5% 401(k) match
100% paid medical and parental leave
$20 per day team lunch stipend
$100 monthly cell phone credit
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