Associate General Counsel Corporate

What You’ll Do

• Direct corporate governance at Deepgram, building the habits and systems that help us move with clarity and confidence.

• Drive the legal roadmap for IPO readiness — the compliance frameworks, future SEC reporting structures, and internal governance policies a public company runs on

• Prepare for, structure and execute financings that support our ambitions

• Lead our M&A legal work from conversation through integration to grow the company and widen what we're able to build

• Partner with Finance and People on employee equity — compensation programs, cap table, secondaries — and mature the machinery behind how every employee shares in what they build here

• Design the legal and business processes that let us scale globally with international subsidiaries

• Track the worldwide regulatory developments that touch our corporate structure and governance, and translate them into positions the company can act on

• Build the AI-native corporate practice at Deepgram with workflows and systems that scale our team's impact

• Roll up your sleeves on the full breadth of legal issues that come with being a fast-growing startup

You’ll Love This Role If You

• Want to take a company through the whole arc — growth rounds, acquisitions, and the road to public — and want your fingerprints on how it gets built

• Treat the cap table, the board, and the corporate structure as products with users, not paperwork

• Get energized by being the first — building systems from scratch and establishing foundational practices

• Are very practical in addressing legal issues and allergic to unnecessary friction

• Have an abiding spirit of idealism about your chosen profession — you’re not just closing deals, you’re building something that matters

• Have a point of view on what good lawyering looks like and a healthy sense of humor about everything else

It’s Important To Us That You Have

• JD from a U.S. accredited law school and 7–15 years of experience in legal practice (or more), in-house, at a firm, or both

• Demonstrated strength in working with private, venture backed companies on a high growth trajectory, including on IPO readiness.

• Fluency in the issues that matter most to us: IPO readiness, financings, M&A, governance, Board matters, employee equity, and international structures. A successful candidate will have depth of experience in at least some of these areas, and a willingness to learn the rest.

• Recognize that law is about the grey areas, and are comfortable living in them, while giving clear and actionable advice.

• Exceptional writing — precise, plain, and compelling

It Would Be Great if You Had

• Experience taking a company public as an in-house lawyer — you know what good looks like and how to build legal infrastructure that accelerates this roadmap

• Hands-on experience with corporate and legal issues in the AI space

We read cover letters! If you want to stand out, pick one: Tell us about a time your corporate work let the business do something it otherwise couldn't — what the constraint was, what you built, and what it opened up. Or tell us what fast-growing private companies most often get wrong about how they're structured or governed, and what good looks like instead.

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