[Hiring] Corporate Counsel @Arceus

Role Description

You'll serve as fractional corporate counsel to startups and growth-stage tech companies, handling the full corporate lifecycle from formation through financings. You'll work as an extension of each customer's founders, finance team, and in-house legal function.

You'll also help us turn recurring corporate work into standardized playbooks and AI-assisted workflows.

Qualifications

• J.D. and active bar membership in good standing
• 5+ years of corporate practice, with significant emerging-companies and venture financing experience
• Training at a law firm with an established emerging-companies or venture practice; in-house or sole-counsel experience a strong plus
• Hands-on, company-side experience running SAFE, convertible note, and priced equity financings
• Strong command of Delaware corporate law and startup equity mechanics
• Familiarity with cap table platforms (e.g., Carta, Qapita) and e-signature closing workflows
• A customer-first mindset: responsive, low-ego, and focused on getting deals closed
• Experience with, or real excitement about, AI-assisted legal workflows
• Strong grounding in professional responsibility and legal ethics
• Excellent written and verbal communication, especially with founders and finance teams

Requirements

• Formation and structure: incorporations, LLC-to-C-corp conversions, Delaware reincorporations and flips, subsidiaries, and foreign qualifications.
• Founder matters: founder stock purchases, vesting, 83(b) elections, and IP assignments.
• Governance: board and stockholder consents, minutes, bylaws and charter amendments, and annual compliance including Delaware franchise tax.
• Equity: equity incentive plans, option and RSU grants, 409A coordination, cap table hygiene, and Rule 701 and blue-sky compliance.
• Financings: company-side SAFEs, convertible notes, and priced seed and Series A rounds, including term sheets, closing checklists, and investor rights agreements.
• Secondaries and transfers: ROFR and co-sale processes, tender offers, and stock transfer requests.
• Diligence and transactions: data room prep, diligence responses, and support on smaller M&A and acqui-hires.
• Cross-functional support: coordinate with employment counsel on equity grants and with commercial counsel on corporate approvals for major contracts.
• Scale the practice: turn recurring work into templates, checklists, and quality bars, and work with product and engineering to improve our tools.

Benefits

• Hourly rate of $100–$250, based on experience
• At least 10 hours per week of availability for client matters; volume varies with demand and isn't guaranteed
• Part-time independent contractor engagement
• Same-business-day responses to client messages during your stated working hours, with extra flexibility around financing closings
• Opportunity to expand hours as the corporate practice grows