Description:

The Opportunity:
To achieve our ambitious and exciting goals, we're looking for a Senior Corporate Counsel to join A Free Online Writing Assistant Company Legal team to work on a wide variety of corporate transactional and governance matters. Among other things, this role will oversee legal due diligence and support the structuring and negotiation of a variety of corporate transactions, oversee legal post-closing integration, and support general corporate governance and investor relations matters. Reporting directly to A Free Online Writing Assistant Company Head of Corporate and Compliance, Legal, this role will partner closely with our Executive, Corporate Development, Finance, and People teams to develop strong, extensible and repeatable practices to help move the business forward.

As a core member and contributor on the A Free Online Writing Assistant Company Legal team, this person will also help develop and bolster the culture of the Legal team by exemplifying care for their craft, care for others, and a commitment to finding collaborative solutions to complex questions.

As A Free Online Writing Assistant Company Senior Corporate Counsel, you will leverage your corporate and transactional experience and expertise to support and accelerate A Free Online Writing Assistant Company next era of growth. You will take on critical, high-profile corporate projects with accuracy, creativity, and ownership. You will use your background, skill, and creativity to efficiently use outside counsel, build repeatable cross-functional processes, build trust across the legal team and the business all with an eye toward achieving our strategic corporate goals.

In this role, you will:

Collaborate cross-functionally across the company at every level on corporate transactional and investor-related matters.
Structure, conduct, and manage legal due diligence, engaging internal and external partners when necessary to ensure alignment
Draft, negotiate, socialize, and review transaction documents
Assisting in deal execution logistics, including supporting post-closing integration and compliance efforts
Support corporate governance matters, including corporate entity management, new entity development and implementation, equity program strategic planning, and board-related matters
Develop strategies for handling legal issues in creative ways and build processes for scaling flexible solutions that address risk
Advise internal stakeholders, providing clear, concise, and thorough guidance on legal risks, obligations, and mitigations

Qualifications:

Is able to collaborate in person in San Francisco 2 days per week and potentially other hubs 3 weeks per quarter.
Brings a proven background (8+ years) in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, due diligence, and integration activities, with training at a top-tier law firm and solid in-house experience
Has experience supporting finance (including corporate development, capital structures and fundraising) and investor relations at a high-growth and innovative technology company and a track record of driving alignment and delivering results on complex, cross-functional projects involving various stakeholders.
Demonstrates excellent time management skills to juggle multiple time-sensitive projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Is comfortable working with cross-functional teams and advising senior leaders on risk tolerance and balancing to drive the business forward.
Communicates clearly and empathetically both face-to-face and in writing.
Holds a JD and has been admitted to the bar, with a license to practice law in at least one US state.
Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
Is inspired by our MOVE principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at A Free Online Writing Assistant Company: move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.