[Hiring] Lead Legal Counsel @GitLab

Role Description

As Lead Legal Counsel, Corporate, you'll own securities, public company reporting, and corporate governance work for GitLab, a growing public technology company. You'll join the Legal & Corporate Affairs (LACA) team as a senior individual contributor, reporting to the Senior Director, Associate General Counsel, Corporate & Compliance.

Your work will span:

• Quarterly reporting and earnings
• The annual proxy statement and stockholders meeting
• Board and committee matters
• Equity plans and subsidiary governance
• Support for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and other strategic initiatives

You'll work closely with:

• Accounting
• Corporate Development
• Finance
• Investor Relations
• People
• Product
• Stock Administration
• Tax
• Treasury

Your responsibilities include:

• Owning securities and public company reporting matters
• Advising on corporate governance
• Providing legal guidance on complex entity matters
• Supporting M&A and other strategic transactions
• Engaging and managing outside counsel
• Identifying legal and business risks
• Building and improving playbooks, checklists, templates, and workflows

Qualifications

• 6+ years of demonstrated relevant legal experience, including law firm experience advising US-listed public companies
• A Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active admission to a US state bar
• Ability to independently manage complex legal matters and cross-functional projects
• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to investigate unfamiliar legal questions
• Experience improving legal processes, templates, policies, or other scalable resources
• Ability to collaborate in a remote, globally distributed team

Requirements

• Helpful but not required: in-house work at a public software-as-a-service (SaaS), software, or open core company
• M&A experience
• Cross-border corporate matters
• Outside counsel management
• Legal technology that helps scale legal work

Benefits

• Flexible Paid Time Off
• Team Member Resource Groups
• Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Growth and Development Fund
• Parental leave
• Home office support