General Counsel or Head of Legal

You will serve as the first in-house lawyer, advising leadership on legal strategy, risk, and novel questions. You will structure programs, grants, entities, contracts, and compliance arrangements; address employment and visa matters; and create practical legal processes, policies, and templates.

Responsibilities

• Own legal strategy and risk management.
• Advise leadership on legal exposure, likelihood, cost, and initiative structure.
• Resolve novel and complex legal questions quickly.
• Structure new programs, grants, and specialist legal research engagements.
• Manage US, UK, and EU entity structures, governance, cost sharing, and compliance.
• Ensure 501(c)(3) lobbying compliance.
• Draft and manage agreements for publications, partnerships, law firms, events, and fellowships.
• Handle authorship, intellectual-property licensing, employment, contractor, and visa matters.
• Build legal templates, policies, and rules of thumb.
• Decide which legal work remains in-house and which is outsourced.

Requirements

• Experienced lawyer
• Excellent judgment
• Strong drafting skills
• Record of driving work forward with little oversight
• Ability to assess and communicate legal risks and recommend a path forward
• Ability to handle sensitive matters with discretion

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• 5 weeks of recommended PTO per year plus public holidays
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave, with additional unpaid leave available
• Employer pension or matching 401(k) contribution up to 4% of salary
• Health insurance for employees in countries without nationalized healthcare
• Annual $5,000 productivity and professional-development reimbursement
• Annual $5,000 mental-health-support reimbursement
• Annual $2,500 equipment and office-supplies reimbursement
• Annual team retreat
• Paid honorarium for the work trial