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~The MetaLegal & ComplianceGeneral & Corporate Counsel

General & Corporate Counsel

This role leads legal strategy across corporate governance, M&A, securities compliance, and strategic transactions for rapidly scaling AI companies. The General Counsel typically works closely with the executive team and board to navigate complex fundraising, entity management across multiple jurisdictions, and public-company readiness while building scalable legal infrastructure and processes. What distinguishes this role from specialist counsel is its breadth—advising on financing, equity administration, international expansion, and board matters alongside transaction work—and its focus on designing repeatable legal playbooks as the company grows. These counsels typically sit within a small but expanding legal function, often being the first or second lawyer hired, reporting directly to the CEO or Chief Legal Officer and partnering closely with Finance, People, and executive leadership to balance sophisticated legal work with hands-on operational execution.

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Open Jobs30
Companies Hiring22
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Measured across 30 of 30 open postings.

27%
expect AI in the role's own work
3% state it as a requirement
7%
work directly with customers
13%
manage people
Mid
most common level
30% of open postings
WHAT THEY ASK FOR, VERBATIM

“Proactively evaluate, pilot, and embed cutting-edge AI technologies into the clinical contracting lifecycle to accelerate legal operations”

Isomorphic Labs · Senior Legal Counsel, Clinical

“Build scalable frameworks, workflows, and playbooks — including adopting AI tooling to automate contract review, research, and beyond.”

Rillet · Head of Legal

“Strong grasp of AI, particularly AI security and interpretability.”

Goodfire · Senior Counsel

“Help define how AI decisioning gets regulated. Work with Taktile's compliance function on how banking, lending, and AI/model-risk regulations intersect”

Taktile · Head of Legal
$ barriers
32%
advertised as remote
of postings that state a work mode
63%
state a degree requirement
3%
need a security clearance
86%
still advertised a month later
about typical for the board

Requirements are a share of every open posting, so a role missing from this list is one where almost nobody asks. Work mode is different: many postings never say, so that figure counts only the ones that do. A posting stops being advertised when it is filled, cancelled or reorganised, so read the last figure as how long these stay on the market, not as time to hire.

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Skills

What companies are looking for in this role.

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Contract negotiation

90%

Corporate governance and securities

50%

Legal operations management

33%

M&A and financing transactions

33%

Compliance program management

30%

Equity compensation administration

20%

Deal structuring and negotiation

20%

Employment law and compliance

17%

External financial reporting

17%

Data privacy compliance

13%

Capital markets and financing

13%

Contract lifecycle operations

13%
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AI-enabled legal workflow automation

27%

AI regulatory compliance

13%

AI data and content rights counsel

13%
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Translating legal into business guidance

40%

Technical communication

20%
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Technology

The tools and technologies that define this role.

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Open Jobs

30 open General & Corporate Counsel jobs across 22 companies.

Multiverse5d
Senior Legal Counsel (UK & Germany)
London·Legal & Compliance
xAI2w
Corporate Counsel
Palo Alto, CA; Austin, TX; New York, NY; Washington, DC·Legal & Compliance
Isomorphic Labs2w
Senior Legal Counsel, Clinical
Cambridge, MA·Legal & Compliance
Rillet3w
Head of Legal
San Francisco·Legal & Compliance
Crusoe3w
Director, Legal Counsel, Corporate & Securities
Denver, CO - US·Legal & Compliance
Crusoe3w
Director, Legal Counsel, Corporate & Securities
San Francisco, CA - US·Legal & Compliance
Goodfire1mo
Senior Counsel
San Francisco, CA·Legal & Compliance
Taktile1mo
Head of Legal
New York Office·Legal & Compliance
Nscale1mo
Director, Securities Counsel
New York·Legal & Compliance
Nebius1mo
Senior U.S Securities and Transactional Counsel
London, United Kingdom; Tel Aviv, Israel·Legal & Compliance
Anthropic1mo
Corporate Counsel, M&A
San Francisco, CA | New York City, NY | Seattle, WA·Legal & Compliance
Waymo1mo
Legal Counsel - UK
London, England, United Kingdom·Legal & Compliance
MongoDB1mo
Associate Legal Counsel
Dublin, Ireland·Legal & Compliance
Lambda1mo
Legal Intern - Fall 2026
San Francisco Office (Second St)·Legal & Compliance
Nscale1mo
SVP, Legal (Global Infrastructure & Projects)
US·Legal & Compliance
Databricks1mo
Sr. Counsel, Corporate
Bellevue, Washington; Boston, Massachusetts; Chicago, Illinois; Denver, Colorado; Seattle, Washington·Legal & Compliance
Perplexity1mo
Principal Counsel, Corporate
San Francisco·Legal & Compliance
OpenAI1mo
Senior Counsel, AI Product (Enterprise/API)
San Francisco·Legal & Compliance
Snorkel AI1mo
Senior Director, Corporate Legal (AGC)
New York City, NY (Hybrid); San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)·Legal & Compliance
Harvey2mo
M&A Counsel
San Francisco·Legal & Compliance