Legal Counsel (Contract)

3 weeks ago
Contract
Mid Level
Legal
Kana AI

Kana AI

Kana AI develops specialized Agentic AI applications that integrate seamlessly with modern marketing technology, empowering brands and media companies to enhance customer journey insights, predictions, and optimizations for accelerated growth and impro...

Media
Founded 2022

Description

  • Support company formations, entity management, governance, filings, resolutions, and corporate housekeeping.
  • Draft, review, and negotiate routine commercial contracts, including NDAs, employment, vendor, and customer agreements.
  • Support financings, fundraising, diligence, closings, and coordination with investors and outside counsel.
  • Assist with founder equity, option pools, grants, vesting arrangements, cap tables, and equity documentation.
  • Provide practical guidance on routine privacy, data-use, and AI-related legal matters, escalating higher-risk issues.
  • Coordinate recurring tax, fund, compliance, audit, investor reporting, and filing requirements with external advisors.
  • Maintain organized corporate records, contracts, equity documentation, and legal workflows.
  • Create and improve templates, playbooks, processes, and systems to make recurring legal work more efficient.
  • Manage routine-to-moderate legal matters independently and escalate complex issues appropriately.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of legal experience with meaningful corporate and commercial experience.
  • Ability to independently handle routine-to-moderate commercial contracts and corporate matters.
  • Strong legal judgment, organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple workstreams.
  • Experience supporting financings, transactions, corporate governance, equity, or ongoing corporate workflows.
  • Practical, business-oriented approach balancing legal risk, speed, and business objectives.
  • Clear written and verbal communication, including explaining legal issues in straightforward business terms.
  • High agency and comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.
  • In-house experience at a startup, scale-up, venture-backed company, or similar environment preferred.
  • Experience with venture financings, SAFEs, preferred stock, equity administration, cap tables, or option plans preferred.
  • Familiarity with privacy, data, AI legal issues, external counsel management, or legal operations systems preferred.

Benefits

  • US-remote work opportunity, with preference for candidates in the San Francisco Bay Area.
  • Meaningful ownership of legal work from day one with autonomy on routine-to-moderate matters.
  • Exposure to the full lifecycle of multiple early-stage companies and direct partnership with founders.
  • Opportunity to work alongside experienced builders and senior counsel on complex legal and strategic matters.

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