About This Role
This General Counsel role serves as the primary in-house legal advisor, owning day-to-day legal matters across the business. It is a hands-on position for an attorney who combines strong legal judgment with practical business understanding and can independently resolve issues. The General Counsel will manage commercial contracts, employment questions, risk issues, corporate matters, and outside counsel coordination, translating legal risk into clear options and commercially sound recommendations.
Responsibilities
- Own the drafting, review, and negotiation of client agreements, master services agreements, statements of work, nondisclosure agreements, vendor agreements, subcontractor agreements, technology agreements, and other commercial contracts
- Work directly with clients, procurement teams, and opposing counsel to resolve contractual issues and negotiate practical positions on liability, indemnification, intellectual property, confidentiality, acceptance, payment terms, insurance, data protection, and related commercial provisions
- Support amendments, terminations, contract disputes, scope or performance issues, and other situations where Finit needs to understand and protect its contractual rights while preserving important business relationships
- Maintain and improve Finit contract templates, preferred positions, fallback language, and negotiation guidance so common issues can be handled consistently and efficiently
- Serve as the primary internal contact for day-to-day legal questions, prioritize competing matters, and drive issues through resolution with limited executive oversight
- Translate legal issues into clear business options and recommendations, distinguishing material risks from issues that can be resolved pragmatically
- Advise on matters involving intellectual property, confidentiality, privacy and data protection, artificial intelligence and emerging technology, insurance, compliance obligations, and other legal risks that arise in Finit operations and client work
- Identify recurring or emerging areas of risk and recommend practical changes to policies, contracting practices, controls, or business processes before issues become larger problems
- Partner with People & Culture and leadership on employment agreements, restrictive covenants, policies, sensitive personnel matters, separations, and other employment-related questions, including drafting related letters, releases, waivers, and agreements
- Recognize when a matter requires specialized employment counsel, engage the appropriate resource, and translate specialist advice into practical next steps for Finit
- Support corporate governance, entity management, corporate records, delegations of authority, and other legal requirements associated with operating and growing the business
- Provide legal support for strategic initiatives, partnerships, organizational changes, and transactions, coordinating specialized tax, ESOP, regulatory, or other advice as needed
