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Transactional Attorney

Transactional Attorney

CompanyPacific Fusion
LocationFremont, CA, USA
Salary$200000 – $250000
TypeFull-Time
DegreesJD
Experience LevelSenior

Requirements

  • Minimum of 6 ~7 years of legal experience (e.g., 5 4 years at law firm + 2 years in-house)
  • Substantial experience leading complex procurement transactions in the deep tech, hard tech, energy development, manufacturing, or infrastructure sectors.
  • Member in good standing of a state bar.

Responsibilities

  • Help develop our contracting strategy as we scale our procurement and complex transactional work.
  • Quarterback a large portion of day-to-day legal activities, including executing on the variety of contract requests coming in the door.
  • Develop a set of core legal principles and playbooks to inform contract reviews and provide related internal training to procurement and engineering teams.
  • Create a set of developed legal playbooks around our core agreements, including NDAs, MSAs, CSAs, and IP transactions.
  • Create consistent organization around existing executed contracts, including upgrading our CLM system.
  • Create processes and tools to scale our contract workflows, working closely with procurement and engineering leads and deploy across the organization.
  • Help lead or substantially support our IP and other complex transactions.
  • Oversee external legal resources and manage work/spend.
  • Create tools to communicate progress on transactional matters across leadership and deliver process improvements with the larger organization.
  • Draft Board resolutions and lead organizational efforts around Board meetings.
  • Step in to support efforts in a range of other work areas, including corporate governance and fundraising, and certain employee matters.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with siting and development
  • Combination of experience within a law firm and in-house
  • Experience with NDAs and procurement contracts
  • Experience working with procurements for power plants or another hard tech projects on the developers side
  • Experience in IP matters, experience around governance, fundraising, and certain employee matters
  • Experience working in a startup
  • Experience working in industries with complex regulatory environments
  • Experience working closely with PhD scientists and R&D technology organizations
  • Passion and interest in our field