Founding Managing Partner

Responsibilities

• Lead the legal entity & own professional responsibility: Serve as the managing attorney with independent professional judgment over all legal work; set quality and review standards and approve work product before it reaches clients.
• Define the next category of legal AI: Help set the standards, service model, and product experience for what an AI-native practice looks like.
• Shape the AI product: Partner with our CEO, product, engineering teams to improve the platform; translate your judgment and review playbooks into software that makes the process faster and more accurate over time. Participate in driving our product roadmap.
• Build & supervise the team: Hire, mentor, and supervise reviewing attorneys and develop the review playbooks that train and improve the platform. Define the culture that sets the pace for the future of law.
• Drive legal and growth strategy: Help define the direction of the practice, including which services to offer, which client segments and practice areas to pursue, how to sequence growth, and the right operating and staffing model as we expand.
• Collaborate with outside counsel: Work with outside counsel on structuring, regulatory, and compliance questions, and translate their guidance into how the practice runs day to day.
• Own compliance, ethics, and risk: Ensure adherence to the rules of professional conduct, confidentiality, conflicts, and licensing/UPL requirements as the company grows across jurisdictions.
• Drive demand: Show up at founder events, conferences, and podcasts. Build a strong personal brand on social with our marketing team. Help us capture mindshare while the window is open.
• Hit the SLA: Establish operating procedures and a culture that meet our turnaround commitments. If the team can't deliver, you must deliver. Customer experience always comes first.

Qualifications

• J.D. and active bar membership in good standing in California
• 7-10+ years practicing law, including supervising attorneys or running a practice or team
• Experience in the emerging companies and venture capital (EC/VC) space, advising startups, founders, and/or venture-backed companies
• Experience in corporate, commercial, transactional, contract law
• Experience building or scaling a practice from an early stage
• Comfort working with technology and AI-assisted workflows
• Strong grounding in professional responsibility and legal ethics
• Excellent judgment and written communication, and the ability to set and hold a quality bar