Associate General Counsel Corporate

Deepgram • Remote, CA

6d • Remote

About The Position

Deepgram is seeking an exceptional corporate lawyer to join its high-impact legal team and own the corporate function at a company operating at the frontier of voice AI. This role is ideal for someone with genuine conviction that voice is the most consequential interface with AI, and who wants to build the corporate function of the company defining it. You'll report directly to our General Counsel and help establish a legal function that scales with a company on a steep trajectory, using AI as your default mode of working to set the standard for what AI-native legal work looks like. The company is at an inflection point, growing fast, and the decisions made now about how the company is structured, financed, and governed will set the pace for the next decade. The role will be the lead lawyer on financing and M&A transactions, IPO readiness, corporate governance, and international structure.

Requirements

• JD from a U.S. accredited law school and 7–15 years of experience in legal practice (or more), in-house, at a firm, or both.
• Demonstrated strength in working with private, venture backed companies on a high growth trajectory, including on IPO readiness.
• Fluency in the issues that matter most to us: IPO readiness, financings, M&A, governance, Board matters, employee equity, and international structures. A successful candidate will have depth of experience in at least some of these areas, and a willingness to learn the rest.
• Recognize that law is about the grey areas, and are comfortable living in them, while giving clear and actionable advice.
• Exceptional writing — precise, plain, and compelling.

Nice To Haves

• Experience taking a company public as an in-house lawyer — you know what good looks like and how to build legal infrastructure that accelerates this roadmap.
• Hands-on experience with corporate and legal issues in the AI space.

Responsibilities

• Direct corporate governance at Deepgram, building the habits and systems that help us move with clarity and confidence.
• Drive the legal roadmap for IPO readiness — the compliance frameworks, future SEC reporting structures, and internal governance policies a public company runs on.
• Prepare for, structure and execute financings that support our ambitions.
• Lead our M&A legal work from conversation through integration to grow the company and widen what we're able to build.
• Partner with Finance and People on employee equity — compensation programs, cap table, secondaries — and mature the machinery behind how every employee shares in what they build here.
• Design the legal and business processes that let us scale globally with international subsidiaries.
• Track the worldwide regulatory developments that touch our corporate structure and governance, and translate them into positions the company can act on.
• Build the AI-native corporate practice at Deepgram with workflows and systems that scale our team's impact.
• Roll up your sleeves on the full breadth of legal issues that come with being a fast-growing startup.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree