General Counsel - Seattle

About the role

The General Counsel will own the legal function end-to-end, designing the entity architecture, running transactions and acquisitions, building governance across a diverse set of legal forms, and advising senior leadership directly.

Responsibilities

• Entity Architecture & Corporate Structure Design and maintain a coherent legal structure spanning the consulting company, fund, operating company, portfolio companies, nonprofits, and political entities.
  • Optimize for tax efficiency, liability containment, clean ownership, and operational clarity.
• Fund Formation & Investment
  • Structure and stand up the fund and its related vehicles, including the general partner, management company, and fund entities; draft and negotiate partnership agreements, subscription documents, and side letters; manage securities compliance and support investor onboarding.
• Transactions & Acquisitions
  • Lead the legal execution of acquisitions and roll-ups across a portfolio built to scale into the hundreds. Run purchase agreements, diligence, financing, and integration from start to close.
• Tax-Aware Structuring
  • Own entity selection, inter-company arrangements, related-party transactions, equity and incentive design, and multi-state exposure; coordinate with tax advisors where helpful, and make the structuring calls yourself where you can.
• Commercial Contracts & IP
  • Draft and negotiate the agreements that run the business (MSAs, vendor and partner contracts, licensing, and confidentiality terms) while protecting the portfolio's IP across trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, and AI-generated work product.
• Governance & Compliance
  • Maintain corporate formalities, ownership records, and board materials across every entity; keep each one compliant with the rules that apply to it, including tax-exempt requirements for nonprofits and campaign finance and lobbying rules for political entities.
• AI-Enabled Legal Operations
  • Use AI tools to do the legal work faster and at higher quality, build repeatable workflows that let a lean legal function support a large enterprise, and advise the business on the legal questions our AI products and services raise, from IP and liability to client terms.

Requirements

4-6+ years of substantive corporate and transactional experience, with real depth across some mix of fund formation, M&A, entity structuring, commercial contracts, and corporate governance.

Deep fluency in Delaware law and solid working knowledge of New York, Massachusetts, and Missouri law.

Demonstrated ability to structure entities and transactions with tax consequences in view, not just an awareness that tax matters, but the judgment to design structures that hold up.

Track record of owning matters from strategy through drafting and filing without requiring support staff beneath you.

Genuine, working fluency with AI tools, not curiosity, not interest, but actual integration of AI into how you practice law today.

Experience in at least one of: fund formation and securities, nonprofit governance, political or campaign finance law, or litigation and dispute resolution.

Background in a startup, holding company, private equity, search fund, or roll-up environment, somewhere that required building legal infrastructure rather than inheriting it.

Qualifications

You are a builder. You are not here to manage outside counsel relationships or protect your calendar. You want to own the work, design the architecture, and see it hold under pressure.

You operate with low oversight and high accountability. Ambiguity doesn't stall you; it's where you do your best thinking.

You communicate clearly to non-lawyers, including the Founder and CEO, without losing precision or hedging everything into uselessness.

You treat legal risk as a business problem, not a compliance checklist, and you structure around it, advise on it, and help leadership make better decisions because of it.

You are genuinely excited about AI, not as a productivity gimmick, but as a fundamental shift in how legal work gets done, and you're already building that into your practice.

You care about the mission, not just the matter. You'll be a steward of an enterprise that is trying to do something meaningful, and that context will show up in how you work.