General Counsel San Francisco CA 895-SLS
General Counsel San Francisco CA 895-SLS
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Monthly Salary
$ 325000 - 350000
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1 Vacancy
Posted on :
11-04-2025
Job Description
This is an incredible opportunity with visionary leaders a great mission and a great idea!
Our client a wellfunded global technology company that is taking the travel industry by storm has retained Solutus Legal Search to assist its executives in their search for a General Counsel. Led by founders with a passionate mission to make travel radically more accessible the company is poised for an incredible corporate journey. It has experienced 8x year over year revenue growth from 2023 to 2024 and is on track for 5x growth in 2025. The companys investors are a Whos Who in the corporate ecosystem and include Andreessen Horowitz Index Ventures NEA Dylan Field and Elad Gil.
The General Counsel will report directly to the CEO and will play an instrumental role in building the legal department as well as helping to shape the companys hypergrowth. This role is seated in San Francisco CA and will require hybrid office/home office attendance.
The ideal candidate will possess experience in a consumer marketplace with inperson operations large trust & safety practice and some regulatory considerations (e.g. hospitality ride sharing ondemand delivery). Top law firm as well as experience working in a hypergrowth startup and a limited inhouse team is required. Tenure in larger tech organization with an excellent legal organization (ideally public company) is a strong plus. IPO/IPO readiness experience is also a plus. Prior leadership experience as a General Counsel or strong #2 in a highprofile organization is required.
Competencies
- Creative & intellectually flexible:Truthseeking & not dogmatically stuck in her/his ways. Capable of creative problem solving & generating ideas vs. just evaluating others ideas
- Excellent judgment:North star pointed toward driving overall business outcomes; able to clearly articulate tradeoffs and confidently recommend decisions balancing different types of risk (business risk legal risk brand risk) vs. only legal risk
- Executional Excellence:Highly operational high velocity executor resultsoriented; can be effective as first legal hire without inhouse team
- Missionary not Mercenary:Valuesaligned (especially with Give a and mission driven. Passionate about increasing access to travel.
- Builds the A Team:High bar for talent; a magnet for the best ICs; strong preexisting legal network
- Structured thinker:Extremely organized structured communicator and thinker strong project manager
- Cool under pressure:Comfort amidst chaos and rapid change; stress absorber vs. amplifier
- No jerks:Collaborative with other functions and personalities. Cares.
This General Counsel will be joining an intimate team and will be the first attorney in the organization. Responsibilities will be robust and will include building a worldclass legal department. Below is a sampling of what you will do:
- Develop internal capability to monitor evolving company relevant regulation internationally implement strategies for compliance in key jurisdictions and collaborate closely with CEO and comms team on proactive regulatory brand/comms strategy for the companys most critical cities.
- Audit current legal operations (HR vendor contracts terms of service privacy etc. and assess and prioritize any exposures. Design and partner with relevant teams to implement prioritized process changes to reduce risk while making businessminded tradeoffs as needed.
- Partner closely with operations organization and Trust & Safety lead to implement a structure for providing legal input & oversight of memberfacing policies and team SOPs (how does the company respond to situations of various types). Develop strategic roadmap for Member Protection Programs and develop any thirdparty partnerships required including partnerships with insurance companies.
- Drive legal work stream within the companys internationalization and localization efforts. Prioritize critical legal efforts (i.e. localizing terms of service or contracts developing international corporate entity strategy deep diving into tax strategy etc.
- Build the companys legal function from the ground up establishing a network of global firms and external legal & policy resources as well as internal resources while shrewdly and strategically managing cost to make their dollars stretch
Base salary range is $325000 $350000 to start and includes stock and benefits.
Culturally you will work with ATeam colleagues who are down to earth passionate bright problem solvers with tremendous spirit and energy. The execs are looking for the same qualities in their General Counsel. For an entrepreneurial spirit who loves a great mission opportunity to build robust responsibility pioneering founders and a seat at the table to take the company to great heightsthis role is a dream come true!
Solutus Legal Search is proud to have been exclusively retained to assist our client with this special engagement. Resumes submitted directly to our client will be forwarded to Solutus Legal for evaluation.
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