Lead Legal Counsel, Corporate
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GitLabSoftware technology
Location: Remote, United StatesFull-TimeLead
Salary168,000 - 285,600 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 6+ years of demonstrated relevant legal experience
- Required Skills
- GitLab
Requirements
- Bring 6+ years of demonstrated relevant legal experience.
- Have law firm experience advising US-listed public companies on securities law, corporate governance, and public company reporting.
- Hold a Juris Doctor (JD) degree.
- Have active admission to a US state bar.
- Independently manage complex legal matters and cross-functional projects, prioritize competing needs, and drive work to completion with limited direction.
- Explain technical legal issues clearly to non-lawyers and senior leaders and build trusted working relationships.
- Investigate unfamiliar legal questions, weigh risks against business objectives, and turn recommendations into action.
- Have experience improving legal processes, templates, policies, or other scalable resources.
- Collaborate in a remote, globally distributed team across time zones and cultures, and use GitLab in day-to-day work.
- Helpful but not required: public software, SaaS, or open core company in-house work; M&A; cross-border corporate matters; outside counsel management; or legal technology experience.
Responsibilities
- Own securities and public company reporting matters, including SEC filings, quarterly reports, earnings releases, the annual proxy statement, investor presentations, and other public disclosures.
- Advise on corporate governance, board and committee processes, the annual stockholders meeting, corporate approvals, equity plan matters, executive compensation, and related compliance requirements.
- Provide legal guidance on 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, coordinating work and ensuring practical, high-quality, cost-effective advice.
- Identify legal and business risks, present options to senior stakeholders, and monitor legal developments to keep policies, processes, and controls current.
- Build and improve playbooks, checklists, templates, and workflows for recurring corporate legal work.
- Train junior legal team members and cross-functional partners to use legal resources.
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