Head of Legal

The role

As the first senior in-house legal leader, you will serve as a strategic advisor to the executive team. You will lead legal work across intellectual property, corporate governance, financing, commercial transactions, regulatory matters, and enterprise risk.

What you will do

• Develop and execute legal strategy in partnership with the COO and executive leadership team.
• Advise the executive team on legal, governance, fiduciary, financing, and enterprise-risk matters.
• Manage the legal budget and set functional priorities.
• Lead high-priority matters and manage legal resources including outside counsel and future direct reports.
• Lead legal strategy and execution for equity, debt, project-finance, and other strategic capital transactions.
• Advise the Board on transaction structure, financing terms, and investor rights.
• Lead Board and committee governance including minutes, consents, and filings.
• Structure and negotiate revenue-generating agreements such as power purchase agreements and licensing.
• Develop contracting and risk-allocation strategies for deployment and manufacturing.
• Lead intellectual-property strategy and oversee patents and technology licensing.

Required qualifications

• J.D. from an accredited law school
• Active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
• Eligibility to practice as in-house counsel in California
• 10+ years of progressively responsible legal experience
• Significant in-house experience advising executives and Boards in hardware technology, energy, advanced-manufacturing, infrastructure, or similarly complex business
• Experience building or scaling an in-house legal function in a high-growth organization
• Experience leading legal resources, including direct reports, legal-operations professionals, and outside counsel
• Experience leading venture or growth-stage financing, corporate-governance work, and complex commercial transactions
• Working knowledge of intellectual-property strategy
• Experience managing specialized patent counsel
• Strong commercial judgment
• Clear, direct communication skills

Nice to have

• Advanced degree
• Experience working in a startup environment

Benefits

• Pre-IPO stock options
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance (Arbor covers 90% for employees)
• Basic life insurance fully covered
• Health savings account (HSA) with matching
• Flexible savings account (FSA)
• Unlimited PTO
• 12+ company holidays, including Earth Day!
• 401(k)
• Commuter benefits
• Annual learning and development stipend

About the company

Arbor Energy & Resources Corporation creates technology to power lives while protecting the planet. They develop advanced power systems using a supercritical CO2 turbine with integrated carbon capture to deliver clean, reliable baseload electricity.