Senior Director, Corporate Legal (AGC)

The role

This person will lead corporate transactions, governance, equity, and international expansion. They will build and scale the corporate legal function for Snorkel AI.

What you will do

• Lead private company financings, secondary transactions, M&A, strategic investments, and other corporate transactions.
• Support the General Counsel on Board and committee matters.
• Manage legal aspects of fundraising, investor diligence, shareholder matters, and ongoing corporate governance.
• Own legal oversight of equity plans and equity administration.
• Ensure the integrity of the cap table and capitalization records.
• Manage corporate formations, subsidiaries, entity governance, and ongoing corporate compliance.
• Lead corporate legal workstreams for international expansion.
• Manage and work closely with outside corporate counsel.
• Build scalable processes, playbooks, templates, approval frameworks, and recordkeeping practices.

Required qualifications

• J.D. and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 10+ years of relevant corporate legal experience in private practice and/or in-house.
• Significant experience advising venture-backed companies on private financings, M&A, corporate governance, and other strategic transactions.
• A mix of top-tier corporate law firm and in-house experience.
• Strong knowledge of U.S. corporate and securities law applicable to high-growth private companies.
• Experience with equity compensation, cap tables, capitalization records, and corporate governance.
• Experience managing subsidiaries, corporate formations, and entity compliance.
• Strong track record of managing outside counsel and working effectively with senior executives, Boards, investors, and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent judgment, drafting, negotiation, and project-management skills.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with Carta or similar equity management platforms.
• Experience supporting international expansion and foreign entity formation and governance.
• Experience with private-company secondary transactions or other liquidity programs.
• Experience building or scaling a corporate legal function, infrastructure, or processes.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where priorities evolve.
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and support business and legal matters.

About the company

Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises.