[Hiring] Legal Counsel @super{set} Hive Community

Role Description

We’re looking for a practical, hands-on Legal Counsel to support super{set} and its portfolio companies across day-to-day corporate and commercial legal work.

• Independently handle routine-to-moderate legal matters.
• Exercise good judgment about when issues require senior counsel.
• Work closely with the super{set} team, portfolio founders, investors, and external advisors.
• Take ownership of recurring legal workflows to improve efficiency.
• Enjoy being close to the business and solving practical problems.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of legal experience, with meaningful experience handling corporate and commercial matters.
• In-house experience at a startup, scale-up, venture-backed company, or similar environment is strongly preferred.
• Ability to independently handle routine-to-moderate commercial contracts and corporate matters.
• Strong legal judgment and the ability to distinguish between matters you can resolve independently and those requiring senior or specialized counsel.
• Experience supporting financings, transactions, corporate governance, equity, or other ongoing corporate workflows.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and follow them through to completion.
• Practical, business-oriented approach to legal work, balancing risk, speed, and business objectives.
• Clear written and verbal communication, particularly the ability to explain legal issues in straightforward business terms.
• High agency and comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment.

Requirements

• Support company formations, entity management, governance, and ongoing corporate housekeeping.
• Prepare and manage routine corporate documents, filings, resolutions, and related materials.
• Maintain organized corporate records and identify issues that require attention.
• Coordinate with outside counsel on matters requiring specialized expertise.
• Draft, review, and negotiate NDAs, employee agreements, vendor agreements, customer agreements, and other routine commercial contracts.
• Maintain and improve standard contract templates.
• Support fundraising, financing, and other transactions across the portfolio.
• Assist with diligence, document review, closing processes, and coordination with investors and outside counsel.
• Support the super{set} Head of Finance with founder equity, option pools, grants, vesting arrangements, and other equity-related matters.
• Provide practical support on routine privacy, data-use, and AI-related legal questions.
• Coordinate with external advisors on recurring tax, fund, corporate, and compliance matters.
• Help turn recurring legal work into clear templates, processes, and playbooks.

Benefits

• Work across the full lifecycle of early-stage companies.
• Partner directly with founders and operators building companies from the ground up.
• Own meaningful legal work from day one with autonomy.
• Develop broad, practical legal judgment by seeing how legal, commercial, and operational decisions intersect.