emergence - Director of Legal
Requirements
• J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one U.S. state • 3-5 years of legal experience, ideally with meaningful time at a smaller company or an early-stage in-house function, not exclusively at a large law firm or a large corporate legal department • Comfortable operating without an established process already in place — you build the playbook rather than execute one handed to you • Strong commercial contract instincts and the judgment to know what's routine versus what requires outside counsel or escalation • A bias toward finding the path that lets the business move, while being clear-eyed about the risk • Ability to apply legal judgment across multiple industries simultaneously without deep expertise in each regulatory regime. • Prior experience in a small, still-forming legal function where you helped build process rather than inherited one • Experience working across multiple business lines or subsidiaries simultaneously • Experience coordinating with specialist outside counsel on equity, incentive-compensation, or corporate-governance matters • Familiarity with legal matter-management, intake, contract-lifecycle, or AI-assisted legal-operations tools
Responsibilities
• Portfolio legal operations and support • Serve as the first point of contact for legal questions across all portfolio companies, using an AI-assisted intake and triage system • Build and operate the infrastructure this function currently lacks: centralized matter intake and tracking, legal playbooks, escalation protocols, and portfolio-wide reporting. • Coordinate the collection, organization, implementation, and ongoing administration of contract templates; partner with senior legal leadership and specialist outside counsel on substantive template design, negotiation positions, and risk parameters. • Support the development and ongoing management of an outside-counsel panel, including matter routing, performance tracking, and coordination around pricing and engagement terms. • Commercial, corporate, and post-acquisition support • Review and negotiate routine vendor and customer commercial contracts within approved playbooks and escalation thresholds. • Manage entity and subsidiary governance across the holding structure. • Support legal workstreams following new acquisitions, including coordinating legal intake, tracking remediation items, and escalating material issues to senior legal leadership and business stakeholders. • Help establish repeatable post-acquisition legal integration processes across the portfolio. • Specialist coordination and risk escalation • Route M&A, intellectual property, labor and employment, litigation, tax, and specialized regulatory matters (including healthcare privacy) to appropriate outside counsel. • Develop sound judgment about when to escalate matters, which specialist to engage, and when issues require senior legal review. • Coordinate with HR on employment-related legal matters and support consistent documentation, approvals, and follow-through.
Benefits
• We offer competitive compensation and a full benefits package. • The base salary range for this role is $275,000–$375,000, plus a performance-based bonus and equity. Placement within the range is based on job-related factors including experience, skills, qualifications, and location. • Remote, U.S.-based, with a preference for candidates near New York or San Francisco.
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