General Counsel

Perry Weather•Dallas, TX

1d•Onsite

About The Position

About Perry Weather Perry Weather is the weather safety standard for organizations that operate outdoors. We combine on-site weather hardware with a software platform that automates alerts, siren activations, and safety decisions for more than 3,000 organizations — from the PGA of America, the NFL, and MLB to Turner Construction, thousands of school districts, cities, and golf courses. We've grown 80%+ annually for five consecutive years, and are continuing to grow. We're headquartered in Dallas at The Centrum, in the Oak Lawn neighborhood, where our teams work together every day to help organizations make faster and safer decisions when weather puts people, assets, and operations at risk. About the Role As General Counsel at Perry Weather, you'll be our first legal hire, reporting directly to the President and owning everything legal across the company. This is a hands-on, builder role, laying the foundations of a Legal function. As we grow, the role grows with us — laying the legal groundwork for international expansion and supporting potential M&A as our strategy evolves.

Requirements

First legal hire
Reporting directly to the President
Owning everything legal across the company
Hands-on, builder role
Laying the foundations of a Legal function
Laying the legal groundwork for international expansion
Supporting potential M&A as strategy evolves
Negotiate new customer contracts and renewals
Negotiate enterprise, government, and public-sector customer contracts
Work closely with sales
Own partnership, referral, and reseller agreements
Own vendor and supplier agreements (SaaS, data, and hardware suppliers)
Own staffing and consulting agreements
Handle NDAs
Handle real estate leases
Handle entity governance, bylaws, and other corporate matters
Support financings, banking relationships, and other corporate transactions
Support employment matters (offer letters, separation agreements, contractor arrangements)
Manage the protection of intellectual property
Handle the legal side of data privacy, security, and compliance matters
Partner with CTO on privacy, security, and compliance
Coordinate outside counsel for specialty matters
Build the legal function from scratch
Standardize customer contract templates
Build negotiation playbooks
Create a legal intake and review process with clear SLAs
Own and level up legal tooling (AI-assisted contract review, document management)
Stand up visibility into contract terms, renewals, and surviving obligations
Consolidate and manage outside counsel relationships
Manage legal budget
Advise the President and leadership team
Train the broader team on contracting basics and legal risk

Responsibilities

Customer contract negotiations. Lead negotiation of new customer contracts and renewals across our verticals — including enterprise, government, and public-sector customers (school districts, cities, state agencies, and cooperative purchasing programs) — working closely with sales to keep deals moving without sacrificing the company's position.
Commercial agreements. Own partnership, referral, and reseller agreements, vendor and supplier agreements (SaaS, data, and hardware suppliers), staffing and consulting agreements, NDAs, real estate leases, and other commercial agreements.
Corporate legal. Handle entity governance, bylaws, and other corporate matters, and support financings, banking relationships, and other corporate transactions alongside our CFO.
Employment and IP. Support employment matters (offer letters, separation agreements, contractor arrangements) alongside our People function, and manage the protection of our intellectual property.
Privacy, security, and compliance. Handle the legal side of data privacy, security, and compliance matters, partnering with our CTO.
Everything else legal. You are the point person for all things Legal at Perry Weather, including coordination of outside counsel for various specialty matters.
Build the legal function. As our first legal hire, you'll build the function from scratch: Templates and playbooks. Standardize our customer contract templates and build negotiation playbooks with pre-approved fallback positions so deals move faster and sales knows what is negotiable.
Contracting process. Create a legal intake and review process with clear SLAs, so the business knows when legal is needed and gets fast turnaround when it is.
Legal tech stack. Own and level up our legal tooling —AI-assisted contract review, document management, etc.
Obligation and renewal tracking. Stand up visibility into contract terms, renewals, and surviving obligations across customers, vendors, and leases.
Outside counsel. Consolidate and manage our outside counsel relationships and the legal budget, deciding what stays in-house vs. goes outside.
Counsel to leadership. Be a pragmatic advisor to the President and leadership team, and train the broader team on contracting basics and legal risk.