Senior Counsel

Fieldguide•San Francisco, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

Fieldguide is seeking its first in-house Senior Counsel to own the legal function end-to-end. This is a lean, high-leverage individual contributor role responsible for commercial paper negotiation and execution, building legal infrastructure, and advising GTM, People, and Finance teams. Specialized matters will be handled by outside counsel, with this role managing those relationships. The ideal candidate is commercially oriented, technically fluent in AI and SaaS contracts, and eager to build rather than inherit. Fieldguide is an AI-native platform for audit, advisory, and assurance workflows, serving sophisticated audit and accounting firms in regulated environments. The company is at a Series C inflection point, experiencing growth in revenue, headcount, and commercial complexity.

Requirements

J.D. from an accredited law school
Active bar admission in good standing
8-10 years of legal experience
3-4 years at a law firm working across many client types and deal structures
5-6 years in-house at a B2B SaaS company, preferably at Series B-D
Deep fluency in commercial SaaS contracts (MSAs, DPAs, BAAs, SLAs)
Substantive AI and data licensing experience: negotiated AI vendor agreements, advised on model and IP risk, and understand the underlying technology well enough to negotiate it.
Demonstrated data privacy experience with GDPR, CCPA, and SOC 2 legal obligations
Credible in DPA negotiations with enterprise customers
Track record of building legal infrastructure from scratch: contract templates, playbooks, and CLM implementations, or compliance programs that created institutional memory and reduced cycle time
Comfortable operating as the only lawyer in the building—approaches legal risk as a trade-off problem, not a binary; delivers practical, business-oriented guidance under time pressure

Nice To Haves

Experience at a B2B SaaS company serving professional services, fintech, or regulated industries
Familiarity with agentic AI or AI infrastructure agreements

Responsibilities

Own negotiation and execution of all commercial agreements—MSAs, SaaS subscription agreements, DPAs, BAAs, and NDAs—with Fieldguide's enterprise accounting firm customers.
Define a risk tiering framework that calibrates review to deal size and complexity.
Serve as a deal enabler for the GTM team, not a bottleneck.
Build and maintain a contract playbook with tiered positions by clause type and a standard paper library.
Leverage AI / Agentic solutions to scale legal operations and build institutional memory.
Own AI and data licensing negotiations such as data use rights, model risk provisions, output ownership, and IP indemnification.
Maintain Fieldguide's AI commercial policy framework and open source compliance program.
Review and maintain employment agreements, contractor agreements, and offer letters.
Advise the People team on multi-state and international compliance.
Serve as the company's primary legal liaison to the board on corporate governance matters, including board documentation, equity records, and corporate filings in coordination with Finance.
Manage outside counsel relationships for specialized matters like IP litigation, securities, and M&A.