Senior Lawyer - Venture Financings

About the role

You’ll be joining our Carta Law team, specifically within the Emerging Company Venture Capital (ECVC) function. Our ECVC team manages the end-to-end process for early-stage financing deals, representing both emerging companies and the venture capital funds that invest in them. Working alongside paralegals and other attorneys, you'll own day-to-day client relationships and serve as the primary point of contact for fundraising transactions. This role partners closely with top-tier law firms, accelerators, and venture firms to deliver consistent, high-quality legal support to founders and investors at the earliest stages of company building.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for founders, venture capital funds, and their respective outside counsel, coordinating term sheet negotiation, diligence, signing, and post-closing deliverables.
• Review and negotiate financing documents — SAFEs, convertible notes, and NVCA-form Stock Purchase Agreements, Investors' Rights Agreements, Voting Agreements, and ROFR/Co-Sale Agreements for priced rounds — advising on cap table, governance, and corporate matters that arise from each transaction.
• Supervise and mentor paralegals through complex early-stage financing transactions — SAFEs, convertible notes, and a company's first priced equity round — ensuring documentation is accurate, timely, and aligned with client playbooks and market-standard terms.
• Develop and evolve deal playbooks and negotiation parameters, alongside the MD, across company- and fund-side client engagements.
• Build and deepen trusted relationships with founders, venture funds, accelerators, and outside counsel, positioning Carta Law as the go-to partner for early-stage financing work.
• Support business development by contributing to new client pitches alongside the Growth team.
• Partner with the technology team to continuously improve AI-driven legal delivery tools and workflows.

Requirements

• Experienced in ECVC law with a strong background in early-stage financings — SAFEs, convertible notes, and priced equity rounds — and the ability to independently manage complex, fast-moving deal processes.
• Client-focused and commercially minded, with a track record of building strong relationships with founders, venture capital funds, and their counsel, and communicating clearly under pressure.
• A natural leader and mentor with experience supervising paralegals and managing team output across multiple simultaneous deals.
• Detail-driven and execution-focused, thriving on getting deals done while prioritizing effectively, handling competing deadlines, and maintaining momentum.
• Tech-savvy with comfort working with AI-backed legal tools and curiosity about the role of technology in modern legal delivery.
• Licensed to practice in California or a comparable jurisdiction, with 7+ years of relevant experience recommended.