Director, Corporate Legal (AGC)

What You’ll Do

Snorkel AI is looking for a Director, Corporate Legal (AGC) to join our growing Legal team, reporting to Snorkel’s General Counsel. This is a highly visible role with broad ownership across corporate transactions, governance, equity, entity management, and international expansion.

As the first person in this role, you will help build and scale the corporate legal function for the next stage of Snorkel’s growth. You’ll work closely with Finance, People, executive leadership, and outside counsel, combining sophisticated corporate legal work with the hands-on operational work required in a fast-growing technology company.

This hybrid role is based in San Francisco or New York City.

Responsibilities

• Lead private company financings, secondary transactions, M&A, strategic investments, and other corporate transactions from structuring through closing.
• Support the General Counsel on Board and committee matters, including Board reporting, meeting materials, resolutions, minutes, governance matters, and transaction approvals.
• Manage legal aspects of fundraising, investor diligence, shareholder matters, and ongoing corporate governance.
• Own legal oversight of Snorkel’s equity plans and equity administration, including grants, exercises, transfers, approvals, and related documentation.
• Help ensure the integrity of Snorkel’s cap table and capitalization records in close coordination with Finance, People, and external administrators.
• Manage corporate formations, subsidiaries, entity governance, and ongoing corporate compliance.
• Lead the corporate legal workstreams for international expansion, including foreign entity formation and stand-up, capitalization, governance, and ongoing local corporate compliance.
• Manage and work closely with outside corporate counsel to drive high-quality, responsive, and practical advice while maintaining disciplined and efficient legal spend.
• Build scalable processes, playbooks, templates, approval frameworks, and recordkeeping practices that allow the corporate legal function to scale with the business.

Who You Are

Minimum 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, ideally at a late-stage, high-growth technology company.
• 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, with the ability to move seamlessly between complex transactions and hands-on execution.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 and the Legal team is expected to be both strategic and highly execution-oriented.
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves and support business and legal matters that benefit from your judgment and expertise.