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Transactional Attorney
| Company | Pacific Fusion |
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| Location | Fremont, CA, USA |
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| Salary | $200000 – $250000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | JD |
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| Experience Level | Senior |
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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
