Lead Legal Counsel, Corporate

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $168k - $285.6k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• Own securities and public company reporting matters, including SEC filings, quarterly reports, earnings releases, annual proxy statement, investor presentations, and other public disclosures • Advise on corporate governance, board and committee processes, annual stockholders meeting, corporate approvals, equity plans, executive compensation, and compliance requirements • Provide legal guidance on complex entity matters across jurisdictions, including formation, maintenance, reorganizations, intercompany agreements, and wind-downs • Support M&A and other strategic transactions through diligence, documentation, approvals, signing, closing, and post-closing integration • Engage and manage outside counsel across jurisdictions • Identify legal and business risks, present options to senior stakeholders, and monitor legal developments • Build and improve playbooks, checklists, templates, and workflows; train junior legal team members and cross-functional partners • Report to the Senior Director, Associate General Counsel, Corporate & Compliance • Collaborate with Accounting, Corporate Development, Finance, Investor Relations, People, Product, Stock Administration, Tax, and Treasury

🎯 Requirements

• 6+ years of demonstrated relevant legal experience, including law firm experience advising US-listed public companies on securities law, corporate governance, and public company reporting • Juris Doctor (JD) degree • Active admission to a US state bar • Ability to independently manage complex legal matters and cross-functional projects, prioritize competing needs, and drive work to completion with limited direction • Clear written and verbal communication, including ability to explain technical legal issues to non-lawyers and senior leaders and build trusted working relationships • Ability to investigate unfamiliar legal questions, weigh risks against business objectives, and turn recommendations into action • Experience improving legal processes, templates, policies, or other scalable resources • Ability to collaborate in a remote, globally distributed team across time zones and cultures • Willingness to use GitLab in day-to-day work

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Parental leave • Home office support