Legal Counsel (Contract)

superset} Hive Community•San Francisco, CA

2d•Remote

About The Position

superset} is a company builder that founds, funds, and builds data and AI-native startups. We’re not a traditional VC, we co-found and build alongside product-driven founders from ideation through scale, providing hands-on support and seed funding from day one. You’ll join a lean, high-output team of experienced builders who have founded, built, and scaled companies from the ground up. They bring grit, humility, and unapologetic nerdiness to solving hard problems. The learning curve is vertical. We’re looking for a practical, hands-on Legal Counsel to support superset} and its portfolio companies across day-to-day corporate and commercial legal work. This is a role for an attorney who can independently handle routine-to-moderate legal matters, keep work moving, and exercise good judgment about when an issue can be handled directly and when it requires more senior counsel. You’ll work closely with the superset} team, portfolio founders, investors, and external advisors across a range of legal and corporate matters. You’ll take ownership of recurring legal workflows and help make the day-to-day legal function more efficient, while more complex and strategic matters are handled with senior counsel. The role is particularly well suited to someone who enjoys being close to the business, solving practical problems, and having meaningful ownership without needing to be the most senior lawyer in the room. The legal work behind a growing company is rarely just about answering legal questions. It is about helping the business move quickly without creating problems that surface later. A well-structured company is easier to finance. Clean equity records prevent painful surprises. A well-negotiated contract protects the business without unnecessarily slowing a deal. Good legal processes mean founders spend less time figuring out how to navigate recurring issues and more time building their companies. At superset}, you’ll work across these decisions at the point where they are actually happening. You’ll see a wide range of legal and operational questions across companies at different stages, and you’ll have the opportunity to bring practical judgment to each one. You’ll also help create leverage. When the same question comes up twice, there should be a better answer the second time. Whether that means improving a template, creating a playbook, tightening a workflow, or simply establishing a better default, you’ll help make the legal function more efficient over time.

Requirements

4+ years of legal experience, with meaningful experience handling corporate and commercial matters.
In-house experience at a startup, scale-up, venture-backed company, or similar environment is strongly preferred.
Ability to independently handle routine-to-moderate commercial contracts and corporate matters.
Strong legal judgment and the ability to distinguish between matters you can resolve independently and those requiring senior or specialized counsel.
Experience supporting financings, transactions, corporate governance, equity, or other ongoing corporate workflows.
Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and follow them through to completion.
Practical, business-oriented approach to legal work, with the ability to balance risk, speed, and business objectives.
Clear written and verbal communication, particularly the ability to explain legal issues in straightforward business terms.
High agency and comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Nice To Haves

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.

Responsibilities

Support company formations, entity management, governance, and ongoing corporate housekeeping across superset} and its portfolio.
Prepare and manage routine corporate documents, filings, resolutions, and related materials.
Maintain organized corporate records and identify issues that require attention.
Coordinate with outside counsel on matters requiring specialized expertise.
Draft, review, and negotiate NDAs, employee agreements, vendor agreements, customer agreements, and other routine commercial contracts.
Maintain and improve standard contract templates.
Help business teams move agreements through review and execution efficiently.
Use sound commercial judgment to distinguish between standard issues and matters that require escalation.
Support fundraising, financing, and other transactions across the portfolio.
Assist with diligence, document review, closing processes, and coordination with investors and outside counsel.
Help keep legal workstreams organized and moving toward completion.
Support the superset} Head of Finance with founder equity, option pools, grants, vesting arrangements, and other equity-related matters.
Help maintain accurate equity records and identify issues early.
Coordinate with relevant advisors on equity administration and related documentation.
Provide practical support on routine privacy, data-use, and AI-related legal questions.
Review relevant contractual and policy considerations as portfolio companies develop products and go to market.
Escalate novel or higher-risk issues appropriately.
Coordinate with external advisors on recurring tax, fund, corporate, and compliance matters.
Support audits, investor reporting, filings, and other ongoing requirements.
Help turn recurring legal work into clear templates, processes, and playbooks.
Keep legal workflows, documentation, and records organized.
Identify opportunities to make routine legal work faster, more consistent, and less dependent on outside counsel.