Senior Corporate Counsel

Antora Energy • San Jose, CA

14d • $196,000 - $235,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Antora's Senior Counsel will be a foundational member of the company's legal function, reporting to the Chief Business Officer and acting as a trusted partner to the executive team. This is a high-autonomy, high-impact role for a lawyer who combines top-tier law firm training with the commercial pragmatism and ownership mentality of in-house practice.
You will own the corporate legal infrastructure — the internal plumbing that keeps the company compliant, protected, and operationally efficient — while managing the "outside counsel supply chain" to ensure Antora receives excellent, cost-effective legal services across specialist domains. You will enjoy exposure to deal-making and project finance (driven by our Chief Business Officer) and corporate finance (partnering with our CFO and CBO) as you build the internal legal foundation that makes everything else possible.

Requirements

• 8–10 years of legal experience, with a strong foundation at a top-tier law firm (5–7 years) followed by meaningful in-house experience (e.g., Assistant GC, Senior Counsel, or equivalent at a growth-stage company).
• Breadth across corporate legal domains: You've touched corporate governance, commercial contracts, LLCA or operating agreements for partnerships, and can manage IP, litigation,employment, and compliance matters (with specialist outside counsel), and vendor management; you're comfortable operating across stakeholders and making judgements about when specialist support is and is not appropriate.
• Financial discipline: You know how to manage legal spend — running RFPs, negotiating fee arrangements, evaluating outside counsel performance, and making hard calls about what to insource vs. outsource.
• AI fluency: You're already using AI tools in your legal practice, or you've been closely involved in AI governance, risk frameworks, or adoption strategy at a firm or company with a serious desire to access AI efficiencies. Antora is aggressively embracing AI and we want a lawyer who embraces AI.
• Poise and autonomy: You thrive in fast-paced, ambiguous environments with minimal oversight. You exercise exceptional judgment to make calls independently and know when to access others’ experience - you are able to build trust quickly across a collaborative, engineering-driven culture.

Nice To Haves

• Hardware / climate tech / energy exposure preferred: Experience with high-capex manufacturing, construction contracts, supply chain agreements, or project-adjacent work is a strong differentiator - You understand the physical realities of building things, and are comfortable operating in a commercial context.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of tactical manufacturing, supply chain, and vendor contracts critical to delivering our near term engineering, production and commercial goals.
• Conduct a comprehensive assessment of Antora's outside counsel network — mapping current engagements, spend, and coverage gaps — and begin consolidating toward fewer firms with better rates and accountability.
• Integrate AI tools into your daily legal workflows (contract reviews, first-draft generation, legal research, document analysis, etc.) to measurably increase the speed and volume of work the legal function can handle.
• Support cross-functional compliance needs related to fundraising.
• Become familiar with how we manage our capital stack and execute global project development, and partner with our co-investors in projects, although you may not own these work streams day-to-day.
• Operate as an autonomous legal decision-maker across corporate finance and governance, international corporate structuring, IP management (working with outside IP counsel), employment law, tax coordination, and compliance; insourcing work where volume and context justify it, and routing specialist matters to the right outside counsel.
• Have built a rationalized, evaluated outside counsel network with secured volume discounts and clear accountability by practice area.
• Improve AI-enhanced legal workflows as a standard operating model for the function, tracking productivity gains and using those metrics to inform resourcing decisions as the legal team scales.
• Ensure Antora's corporate, compliance, and governance infrastructure best reflect our corporate practices and are diligence-ready.
• Serve as a thought partner to our executive team on legal risk, corporate structure, and operational scaling.

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and equity in a high-growth climate tech company approaching Series C.
• The opportunity to build a legal function from the ground up at a company with a clear path to commercial scale and significant societal impact.
• A seat at the table with a collaborative, mission-driven executive team.
• A respectful and collaborative working environment that values speed, ownership, and intellectual curiosity.
• equity compensation in the form of stock options
• a premium health benefits package with life and disability insurance
• a 401K plan with employer contributions
• flexible spending accounts
• an industry leading paid-time-off policy that features flexible and inclusive holiday observance, as well as paid volunteer time off.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees