Associate General Counsel

November 4

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Crux

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Finance • Energy

Crux is an ecosystem designed to facilitate transactions and management of transferable tax credits among developers, tax credit buyers, banks, syndicators, and advisors. The platform aims to streamline processes such as price discovery, due diligence, and contracting. It offers tools for minimizing risks, ensuring compliance, and managing reporting through a network of regulatory experts. Crux enables developers to maximize the value of tax credits and tax credit buyers to manage tax liabilities and sustainability goals. For banks, syndicators, and advisors, it provides workflows for efficiently managing syndications and connecting with new market participants. Crux’s Transaction Hub centralizes these activities, making it easier to track and execute tax credit transactions in the energy and manufacturing sectors.

11 - 50 employees

💸 Finance

⚡ Energy

📋 Description

• Lead negotiations and drafting across a wide variety of commercial agreements (customer, technology, data, partnerships, and vendors) while developing scalable contracting processes, templates, and playbooks. • Provide legal counsel across the product lifecycle to ensure Crux’s technology is compliant, secure, and ethically deployed. Design and maintain policies governing AI, data usage, and responsible innovation. • Assist with compliance programs for Crux’s broker-dealer and investment adviser affiliates, including policies, training, and oversight of regulatory obligations. • Assist with corporate-level financings (debt and equity), M&A transactions, joint ventures and other strategic transactions. • Design and implement Crux’s contract management system (e.g., Ironclad or similar) to centralize, streamline, and track contractual obligations and approvals. Design and build the legal department’s operational infrastructure, including team structure, workflows, tools, and systems, to support the company’s growth and evolving business needs. • Provide counsel to product and engineering teams as a subject matter expert in renewable energy finance, shaping technology and AI tools that make renewable energy transactions more liquid, efficient, and intelligent. An interest in AI, technology, and creative problem-solving to drive innovation in renewable energy financing transactions is a must. • Support corporate governance, equity matters, and internal corporate needs across the parent company and subsidiaries. • Coordinate dispute resolution mechanisms and manage litigation matters as they arise, ensuring efficient, business-aligned outcomes. • Drive data-related legal initiatives supporting Crux’s renewable energy financing markets, including data governance, structuring, licensing, and analytics, to enable smarter, more transparent market operations. • Serve as a trusted partner to leadership and cross-functional teams, translating complex legal and financing concepts into actionable, business-friendly guidance.

🎯 Requirements

• 5-10 years of experience, including a mix of practicing at a top-tier law firm, ideally working on clean energy financing transactions, and in house experience at a renewable energy company. • Be comfortable operating seamlessly between legal and commercial teams and workflows. You might spend one day negotiating an M&A transaction and the next day in a deep dive with our product team designing and implementing an AI due diligence tool. • Built strong internal and external stakeholder relationships in complex environments. • Found ways to turn legal expertise into practical tools, product improvements, or strategic insights, whether at a law firm, in a past in-house role, a tech environment, or side initiatives. • Shown an entrepreneurial mindset by helping get new ideas off the ground, by launching an initiative, shaping go-to-market plans, or creating content or frameworks from scratch. • Worked cross-functionally and independently in fast-moving environments, exercising sound judgment to evaluate risks and make pragmatic decisions informed by business needs.

🏖️ Benefits

• We cover 100% of premiums for employees with a variety of plans on Aetna (nationwide) and Kaiser (WA and California) and subsidize 70% for dependents (total as a group), if relevant. • We cover 100% of premiums for employees and 50% for dependents (each), if relevant. • 10 company holidays per year. • 20 days per year. • We support a 401k account but don't have a matching program set up at this time (typical for an early-stage startup). • 16 weeks for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents.