Responsibilities

Executive Advisory

• Real-Time Counsel: Advise leadership in real time on legal risk during deal negotiations, personnel decisions, and business deliberations.

• Communications Infrastructure: Structure internal communications and document practices to protect privilege (including marking conventions, distribution discipline, and maintaining privilege logs when needed).

• Equity & Governance: Manage the corporate cap table and oversee stock transfers in coordination with the BOD.

External Counsel Management

• Single Point of Contact: Manage outside firms to budget, including those supporting project finance, real estate, and other expert counsel.

• Triage & Allocation: Evaluate incoming legal matters to decide what will be handled efficiently in-house versus what should be referred to external specialists.

• Executive Translation: Consolidate and translate complex external counsel work product into plain-English, actionable recommendations for the executive team.

• Operations Tracking: Maintain a centralized matter tracker across all active legal matters to monitor status, spend, and key deadlines.

Contracts & Redlines

• Commercial Review: Conduct first-pass review and redlining of commercial agreements, including colocation/hosting agreements, MSAs, SOWs, NDAs, and vendor/supplier contracts.

• Deal Optimization: Maintain and update standard templates and a negotiation playbook (fallback positions, non-negotiables) to speed up deal velocity.

• Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM): Manage the entire contract lifecycle, including execution, renewals, amendments, and archiving in an organized contract repository.

Employment & HR Support

• HR Advisory: Act as the primary legal advisor to the Director of People and Purpose (Soft HR).

• Employment Documentation: Draft and maintain employment agreements, offer letters, non-compete/non-solicit agreements, and severance packages.

• Policy Ownership: Own the employee handbook and workplace policies, ensuring strict compliance with applicable laws.

• Oversight & Compliance: Provide legal oversight on HR issues, including terminations, disciplinary actions, leave/accommodation requests, and wage-and-hour compliance.

• Workforce Architecture: Advise on contractor vs. employee classification and draft related equity/incentive documentation.

General Corporate Operations

• Dispute & Litigation Management: Vet and oversee specific project-based counsel or litigators and resolve pre-litigation disputes.

• Regulatory Tracking: Monitor ongoing regulatory and compliance obligations touching the business (e.g., tracking data center permitting, which is executed externally).

• Fiscal Responsibility: Own the legal department budget and deliver quarterly financial and operational reports to the CEO.

• Governance: Provide ongoing corporate governance consultation to the BOD.