About This Role
Reporting to the General Counsel, the Corporate Counsel serves as a trusted legal advisor to ASI, a rapidly-scaling company building autonomous vehicle technology across four product verticals: landscape maintenance, agriculture, logistics, and earthmoving. This is a hands-on, business-minded attorney role and the second hire for the in-house legal team. It suits a practical problem-solver who can negotiate and close deals, manage risk, explain legal issues clearly, and enable the business to scale quickly and responsibly.
Responsibilities
- Support corporate governance, board materials, entity maintenance, intracompany agreements, equity compensation, financings, and strategic transactions
- Provide guidance to HR on employment issues and risks, and conduct trainings for managers
- Help manage pre-litigation disputes, claims, and insurance matters; coordinate with and manage outside counsel on litigation and specialized matters
- Help select and deploy legal technology solutions such as contract lifecycle management
- Develop and maintain contract templates, negotiation playbooks, approval workflows, and self-service tools
- Prepare and deliver legal training to business teams
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of agreements, including customer agreements, software licenses, hardware and systems sales, product pilot and early adopter agreements, supplier and manufacturing agreements, distribution and reseller agreements, and NDAs
- Identify and address important business risks with solutions that counterparties can accept, including creative solutions when called for
- Work with bespoke agreements and agreement templates that are executed in volume
- Advise on and help build compliance policies, programs, and expertise to manage issues including export controls, FCC equipment authorization, product safety and liability, data privacy, cybersecurity, and anti-corruption
- Partner with outside counsel on IP protection strategy, licensing, open-source software use, and IP provisions in commercial agreements
- Review and advise on purchases and lease of commercial property, zoning, and other compliance issues
- Provide direction to paralegals and legal support staff on assigned matters
- Perform other duties as assigned by the General Counsel
Requirements
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an ABA-accredited law school
- Active license in good standing to practice law in Utah, or active license in good standing in another jurisdiction and able to register as in-house counsel in Utah
- 5+ years of legal experience with a significant focus on commercial transactions, gained at a law firm and/or in-house at a technology, manufacturing, or industrial company
- Experience in several of the essential duties and responsibilities (significant experience in all areas is not expected)
