Director of Legal

🕒 July 28

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $275k - $375k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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Emergence

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11 - 50 employees

💸 Finance

🤝 B2B

☁️ SaaS

Finance • B2B • SaaS

Emergence is a venture capital firm that focuses on investing in early- and growth-stage enterprise software and cloud/SaaS companies. It partners with founders building B2B platforms and services, providing capital and operational support to help scale businesses in the enterprise software space.

📋 Description

• 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. • 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. • 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.

🎯 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.

🏖️ Benefits

• We offer competitive compensation and a full benefits package.