Legal Counsel (Contract)

The role

You will support super{set} and its portfolio companies with day-to-day corporate and commercial legal work. This includes managing company formations, drafting commercial contracts, supporting fundraising, and handling equity and privacy matters.

What you will do

• Support company formations, entity management, governance, and corporate housekeeping.
• Prepare and manage routine corporate documents, filings, and resolutions.
• Draft, review, and negotiate NDAs, employee agreements, vendor agreements, and customer agreements.
• Maintain and improve standard contract templates.
• Support fundraising, financing, and other transactions across the portfolio.
• Assist with diligence, document review, and closing processes.
• Support founder equity, option pools, grants, and vesting arrangements.
• Provide support on routine privacy, data-use, and AI-related legal questions.
• Coordinate with external advisors on tax, fund, corporate, and compliance matters.
• Create templates, processes, and playbooks to improve legal operations.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of legal experience, with meaningful experience handling corporate and commercial matters.
• Ability to independently handle routine-to-moderate commercial contracts and corporate matters.
• Strong legal judgment to distinguish between independent matters and those requiring senior counsel.
• Experience supporting financings, transactions, corporate governance, equity, or other ongoing corporate workflows.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Practical, business-oriented approach to legal work.
• Clear written and verbal communication.
• High agency and comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Nice to have

• In-house experience at a startup, scale-up, venture-backed company, or similar environment
• Worked as in-house counsel at an early-stage or venture-backed company
• Supported multiple companies, business units, or a venture studio / startup ecosystem
• Experience with venture financings, SAFEs, preferred stock financings, or related transaction work
• Experience with equity administration, cap tables, option plans, and founder equity
• Familiarity with privacy, data, or AI-related legal issues
• Experience working with external counsel and managing legal workstreams efficiently
• Built legal templates, playbooks, contract workflows, or other legal operations systems
• Experience working in a lean legal function where you had to exercise significant independent judgment

About the company

super{set} is a company builder that founds, funds, and builds data and AI-native startups. They co-found and build alongside product-driven founders from ideation through scale.