Senior Legal Counsel (Capital Markets)

Augment Markets•,

2d•$160,000 - $215,000•Remote

About The Position

Augment is hiring a Senior Legal Counsel to serve as a core deal lawyer supporting its revenue-generating investment products. Reporting directly to the Head of Legal, the role works with product, engineering, business development, operations and compliance teams. The position supports private-market transactions, including single-asset SPVs, multi-asset funds, side letters, escrow and settlement arrangements, and securities placements. Its primary focus is SPV diligence and offering reviews, drafting and negotiating investment documents, and closing deals. The role also supports fund structuring, PTP and securities regulatory review, and investment-feature product counsel work. The Senior Legal Counsel will handle both high-volume transactions and non-standard deals requiring judgment. The role includes building and maintaining templates, playbooks and automated workflows, helping shape Augment's investing and structuring approach, and contributing to the growth of the legal team. Augment is remote-first, with Austin or New York preferred.

Requirements

Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school.
Active bar membership in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
4–7 years of experience as a practicing attorney at a law firm, in-house or both, with meaningful funds, securities or capital-markets experience.
Experience drafting and negotiating fund, SPV or securities transaction documents, such as operating agreements, subscription agreements, purchase agreements and side letters.
Working knowledge of the Securities Act and Investment Company Act, and familiarity with broker-dealer and RIA regulatory frameworks.
Ability to manage high deal volume across multiple transactions and make practical decisions quickly.
Excellent drafting skills, strong attention to detail and commercial judgment.

Nice To Haves

Private-markets experience, such as secondary transactions, SPVs, private funds or private-company share transfers.
Familiarity with PTP rules and entity classification analysis.
In-house experience at a bank, asset manager, financial-services company or fintech company.
Experience working with outside counsel or building playbooks for high-volume work.
Willingness to obtain securities licenses, such as Series 7, Series 63 or Series 65.

Responsibilities

Run single-asset SPV diligence and offering reviews, escalating deals that require a different approach.
Manage outside diligence counsel, including review quality, turnaround time and cost.
Negotiate buy-side investment terms, including side letters.
Draft and negotiate operating agreements, subscription documents, purchase agreements, side letters and related transaction documents.
Support structuring and execution of multi-asset funds.
Handle NDAs and NCNDAs with investors, platforms and other counterparties, in coordination with commercial lawyers.
Track side-letter and investor obligations across the platform.
Support entity formation, governance and dissolution for investment vehicles.
Run PTP structuring reviews for direct and indirect investments, including entity classification analysis at each level.
Identify and address Securities Act, Investment Company Act, broker-dealer and RIA considerations affecting deal execution, including Section 4(a)(7) resales, transfer restrictions and resale eligibility.
Help prepare conflict-of-interest disclosures, offering documents and investor disclosures.
Advise product, engineering, business development and operations teams on launching investment features and structures.
Translate legal risks and structuring considerations into clear, launch-ready guidance for non-lawyers.
Coordinate escrow, settlement mechanics and closing deliverables to ensure transaction flows are legally sound and operationally executable.
Build and maintain template libraries, playbooks and automated workflows to support increasing deal volume.
Help shape Augment's investing playbook, structuring approach and growing legal team.