USA | Remote•San Francisco, CA
Remote
Senior
Full Time
remoteAIcorporate_lawIPO_readinessM&Alegalequity
Requirements
- •JD from a U.S. accredited law school and 7–15 years of experience in legal practice (or more), in-house, at a firm, or both
- •Demonstrated strength in working with private, venture backed companies on a high growth trajectory, including on IPO readiness
- •Fluency in the issues that matter most to us: IPO readiness, financings, M&A, governance, Board matters, employee equity, and international structures
- •Recognize that law is about the grey areas, and are comfortable living in them, while giving clear and actionable advice
- •Exceptional writing — precise, plain, and compelling
What You'll Do
- •Direct corporate governance at Deepgram, building the habits and systems that help us move with clarity and confidence
- •Drive the legal roadmap for IPO readiness — the compliance frameworks, future SEC reporting structures, and internal governance policies a public company runs on
- •Prepare for, structure and execute financings that support our ambitions
- •Lead our M&A legal work from conversation through integration to grow the company and widen what we're able to build
- •Partner with Finance and People on employee equity — compensation programs, cap table, secondaries — and mature the machinery behind how every employee shares in what they build here
- •Design the legal and business processes that let us scale globally with international subsidiaries
- •Track the worldwide regulatory developments that touch our corporate structure and governance, and translate them into positions the company can act on
- •Build the AI-native corporate practice at Deepgram with workflows and systems that scale our team's impact
- •Roll up your sleeves on the full breadth of legal issues that come with being a fast-growing startup
Nice to Have
- •Experience taking a company public as an in-house lawyer — you know what good looks like and how to build legal infrastructure that accelerates this roadmap
- •Hands-on experience with corporate and legal issues in the AI space
About Deepgram
Deepgram specializes in providing AI-powered speech-to-text technology that offers audio intelligence, text-to-speech, and voice agent API.
San Francisco, CA
100 - 250
AI & Machine Learning