[Hiring] Corporate Counsel @Qualia

Role Description

Our Legal team is small but mighty, and we support every part of the business across a wide range of matters. As Corporate Counsel, you will be a key member of the team with two primary areas of ownership: corporate legal matters and commercial contracts. This is an individual contributor role reporting to our Associate General Counsel, who leads commercial partnerships, corporate, and procurement legal work.

On the corporate side, you will support:

• Board and stockholder matters
• Legal workstreams for financings, M&A, and other corporate transactions

On the commercial side, you will:

• Draft, negotiate, and advise on strategic partnership, customer, and procurement agreements
• Help business teams understand deal structure and risk
• Work directly with legal, finance, and business leaders
• Manage outside counsel
• Keep templates, playbooks, and processes sharp, including by using AI tools to streamline work

Responsibilities

• Corporate
  • Prepare board and stockholder consents, resolutions, meeting materials, and maintain the corporate minute book and records
  • Assist in supporting equity management with Finance and People teams, including plan documents and stock transfers
  • Manage subsidiaries and entity matters, including formations, and officer and director appointments
  • Support the legal workstreams for financings, secondary transactions, and M&A, including due diligence and disclosure schedules
  • Help scope and manage outside counsel
• Commercial Contracts
  • Draft, review, and negotiate a high volume of commercial agreements, including strategic partnership and vendor/SaaS agreements
  • Partner with Procurement, Security, IT, and Finance on vendor review and contracting
  • Advise business teams across sales, partnerships, finance, product, and operations on deal structure and risk, and explain legal issues clearly to non-lawyers
  • Identify intellectual property, data privacy, and regulatory issues in contracts and escalate as appropriate
  • Help develop and maintain contract templates, playbooks, and guidelines, and provide practical training to internal teams on contracting basics and process

Qualifications

• JD and active bar membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
• 3–6 years of corporate experience at a law firm and/or in-house at a technology company
• Hands-on corporate governance work and exposure to venture financings, M&A diligence, and/or disclosure schedules
• Meaningful experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, such as partnership, SaaS/technology, and procurement contracts
• Solid understanding of intellectual property, data protection, and privacy issues in software agreements
• Strong issue-spotting instincts: review a document, find what matters, and explain why
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills; comfortable advising senior stakeholders and pushing back constructively
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently, managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Hands-on experience using generative AI tools such as Claude in your legal work

Benefits

• Comprehensive health plans
• 401k program
• Commuter benefits
• Professional development
• Parental leave
• Flexible time off policy
• Robust online onboarding program to train new hires
• Biweekly all hands meetings
• A variety of internal virtual events to keep employees connected