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Paralegal, Emerging Companies & Venture Capital

General Legal (YC26) · United States · 1 mo ago
RemoteRemoteLegal$100k–$120k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About, Responsibilities (What You'll Do), Requirements/Qualifications (Who You Are, Background & Experience, How You Work maybe), Benefits, Pay, Schedule? The posting includes compensation and benefits. It does not mention schedule explicitly (remote-friendly, full-time). Schedule not given, so we should not create Schedule section unless stated. Pay section: we have base salary range; we can include Pay section with that info. Benefits: we have 401(k), health/dental, annual team onsites, training stipend, modern tooling, no billable hours. So Benefits section. We need headings:

for section headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. But we should only include sections with real content. We have About (the "About General Legal" paragraph). Responsibilities (What You'll Do). Requirements/Qualifications/ Skills: we have "Who You Are" with background & experience, how you work. Could combine into Requirements and maybe Skills. We'll decide: Use Requirements for background/experience, Qualifications for education/certificates, Skills for specific skills. But we can also just have one Requirements section covering all. The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we can have About, Responsibilities, Requirements (covers background, experience, skills, how you work), Benefits, Pay. No Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate: equal opportunity, legal auth, etc. Also remove "How to Apply". Also remove "Location: United States (Remote-friendly) Type: Full-time Compensation: $100,000–$120,000 base salary, commensurate with experience" maybe we incorporate compensation into Pay section. Location and type maybe not needed as heading; we could embed location in a short p? The instruction: fold minor metadata into a short

or drop it. So we could include a short p at top:

Location: United States (Remote-friendly) | Type: Full-time

. But we might drop it as minor metadata. Probably include a short p. We must preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. So we need to keep all details from sections. Let's extract content: About General Legal: paragraph about firm. The Role: description of role. What You'll Do: bullet list (but in prose sentences). We need to convert to
  • . The text includes multiple sentences each starting with a capital letter and describing duties. We'll split into list items. Let's list duties: - Support venture financings (priced rounds, SAFEs, convertible notes) from term sheet through closing, including drafting ancillary documents, preparing signature pages, and managing signature/closing logistics. - Incorporate and organize new entities—formation documents, bylaws/operating agreements, initial resolutions, and corporate records setup. - Implement and administer equity incentive plans and stock option grants, including board and stockholder approvals. - Maintain and update capitalization tables and equity records using platforms such as Carta or Shareworks; manage related cap table due diligence. - Handle corporate records management and general corporate housekeeping for clients on an ongoing basis (annual filings, franchise tax, registered agent matters, minute books). - Startup-Side M&A Support Assist with diligence for acquisitions of early- and growth-stage companies, acqui-hires, and asset deals—organizing data rooms, tracking diligence requests, and flagging issues for attorney review. - Draft and manage signing and closing checklists, closing documents, and closing volumes. - Prepare board and stockholder resolutions and minutes in connection with financings, M&A, and other corporate actions. - Client & Attorney Support Serve as a direct point of contact for founders and clients on routine document requests, closing logistics, and status updates. - Draft and revise standard agreements and templates under attorney direction. - Work directly with attorneys to scope and prioritize matters, and flag issues that need attorney judgment early. - Process & Tooling Use and help refine AI-native workflows and playbooks to handle routine drafting, document assembly, and diligence work faster. - Identify recurring bottlenecks in deal or intake workflows and help build better process as the firm scales. We need to ensure each is a list item. Now Who You Are: Background & Experience, How You Work. Let's extract: Background & Experience: - 3+ years of corporate/transactional paralegal experience, with substantive ECVC experience: incorporations, venture financings, and cap table/equity plan administration. - Experience with capitalization management platforms such as Carta or Shareworks. - A four-year degree and/or a paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved program. - Experience in a law firm, legal tech, or in-house legal environment; startup or high-growth company exposure strongly preferred. - Solid working knowledge of NVCA-style financing documents, SAFEs, and convertible notes; exposure to startup-side M&A (asset deals, acqui-hires, company sales) is a plus. - Substantial experience with Excel spreadsheets and exemplary written communication and organizational skills. How You Work: - You can run the mechanics of a financing or closing without hand-holding, and you know when something needs attorney judgment instead. - You’re comfortable multi-tasking across several active matters in a deadline-driven environment. - You’re genuinely curious about AI tools and excited to work somewhere that uses them to change how legal services get delivered—not just tolerate the idea. - You default to fixing the problem rather than just flagging it. We could combine into Requirements section with subheadings? But we only allowed headings

    . Could we have subheadings like

    ? Not allowed; only

    for section headings. So we need to decide: either make separate sections: Requirements, Qualifications, Skills. But we can also put all in one Requirements section as a list. The instruction: prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So one Requirements section covering all is fine. Thus we will have:

    About the role

    ... (the About General Legal paragraph plus The Role description? Actually About the role should include the firm description and role summary. We'll include the About General Legal paragraph and the The Role paragraph (the summary).) Then

    Responsibilities

      list items. Then

      Requirements

        list items combining background/experience and how you work. Then

        Benefits

          list items: 401(k) with 5% employer match; Health & dental insurance fully covered, with partial subsidies for dependents; Annual team onsites; Training and development stipend; Modern tooling; No billable hours. Then

          Pay

          Base Salary: $100,000–$120,000, commensurate with experience.

          We should not include Schedule. We also need to include location and type maybe as a short p before sections. Let's add a short p:

          Location: United States (Remote-friendly) | Type: Full-time

          . That's minor metadata. Now ensure we don't include boilerplate: equal opportunity, legal auth, how to apply, etc. Remove those. Check for any repeated lines: we must preserve all substantive info. Did we miss any? The "About General Legal" paragraph includes: "We combine top-of-market, U.S.-barred attorneys with AI-native workflows to handle drafting, review, and negotiation end to end—without billable hours, bloated process, or junior handoffs. We operate like a startup because we are one. That means modern tooling, outcome-based pricing, remote-friendly work, and a focus on building repeatable processes that scale. By using AI to handle the routine parts of legal work, we give our team the space to focus on judgment and the issues that actually matter to clients. We’re starting with commercial and emerging companies work for growing companies—and we’re looking for a paralegal who wants to do great work in a firm that’s rethinking how legal services get delivered." We included that. The Role paragraph: "We’re hiring a Paralegal to support our Emerging Companies & Venture Capital (ECVC) practice—working directly with our attorneys on financings, formations, equity administration, and startup-side M&A for a growing roster of startup and investor clients. This is a hands-on execution role: you’ll own the corporate housekeeping and deal-support work that keeps our clients’ cap tables clean and their transactions moving, and you’ll use AI-native workflows to do it faster and more accurately than you could at a traditional firm. The ideal candidate has real ECVC paralegal experience—venture financings, entity formation, and cap table/equity plan administration—and is comfortable working independently in a lean, fast-moving team with direct attorney and client contact." We included that as part of About the role. Now Responsibilities list: we captured all bullet points from "What You'll Do". Need to ensure we didn't miss any: The text includes: "Startup & Venture Financings Support venture financings (priced rounds, SAFEs, convertible notes) from term sheet through closing, including drafting ancillary documents, preparing signature pages, and managing signature/closing logistics.Incorporate and organize new entities—formation documents, bylaws/operating agreements, initial resolutions, and corporate records setup.Implement and administer equity incentive plans and stock option grants, including board and stockholder approvals.Maintain and update capitalization tables and equity records using platforms such as Carta or Shareworks; manage related cap table due diligence.Handle corporate records management and general corporate housekeeping for clients on an ongoing basis (annual filings, franchise tax, registered agent matters, minute books). Startup-Side M&A Support Assist with diligence for acquisitions of early- and growth-stage companies, acqui-hires, and asset deals—organizing data rooms, tracking diligence requests, and flagging issues for attorney review.Draft and manage signing and closing checklists, closing documents, and closing volumes.Prepare board and stockholder resolutions and minutes in connection with financings, M&A, and other corporate actions. Client & Attorney Support Serve as a direct point of contact for founders and clients on routine document requests, closing logistics, and status updates.Draft and revise standard agreements and templates under attorney direction.Work directly with attorneys to scope and prioritize matters, and flag issues that need attorney judgment early. Process & Tooling Use and help refine AI-native workflows and playbooks to handle routine drafting, document assembly, and diligence work faster.Identify recurring bottlenecks in deal or intake workflows and help build better process as the firm scales." We split accordingly. Now Requirements list: combine background & experience and how you work. List items: - 3+ years of corporate/transactional paralegal experience, with substantive ECVC experience: incorporations, venture financings, and cap table/equity plan administration. - Experience with capitalization management platforms such as Carta or Shareworks. - A four-year degree and/or a paralegal certificate from an ABA-approved program. - Experience in a law firm, legal tech, or in-house legal environment; startup or high-growth company exposure strongly preferred. - Solid working knowledge of NVCA-style financing documents, SAFEs, and convertible notes; exposure to startup-side M&A (asset deals, acqui-hires, company sales) is a plus. - Substantial experience with Excel spreadsheets and exemplary written communication and organizational skills. - You can run the mechanics of a financing or closing without hand-holding, and you know when something needs attorney judgment instead. - You’re comfortable multi-tasking across several active matters in a deadline-driven environment. - You’re genuinely curious about AI tools and excited to work somewhere that uses them to change how legal services get delivered—not just tolerate the idea. - You default to fixing the problem rather than just flagging it. Check if any duplication: "Experience with capitalization management platforms such as Carta or Shareworks." appears also in responsibilities but that's fine. Now Benefits list: - 401(k) with 5% employer match. - Health & dental

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