Assistant General Counsel (Fintech)

TL;DR

Assistant General Counsel (Fintech): Integral part of an in-house legal team in a technology and mineral exploration company, focusing on complex corporate tax restructurings, corporate governance, and global subsidiary management. Focus on compliance, KYC matters, and providing legal advice to senior executives, tax/treasury, corporate development, HR, geologists, data scientists, and software engineers.

Location: Remote, Candidates can be located anywhere in the United States or Canada. All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada.

Salary: $210,000 - $280,000, plus equity and benefits including 401k matching.

Company

KoBold builds AI models for mineral exploration and deploys those models to guide decisions on KoBold-owned-and-operated exploration programs.

What you will do

• Oversee and manage compliance, corporate governance, and KYC matters for the company’s subsidiaries.
• Review, draft, and advise on complex transactions spanning multiple jurisdictions.
• Create processes and policies to help build a high-functioning legal department.
• Provide immediate legal and business advice to internal clients.
• Guide and support the company’s global business operations using legal and business skills.

Requirements

• 10-14 years of experience, with a minimum of 4 years at a top law firm as a corporate associate, followed by time working in-house supporting the tax department as their client.
• Solid experience managing legal entity compliance and governance and supporting the head of tax and treasury teams on implementing complex tax planning/restructurings, dividends, contributions.
• Excellent drafting skills and understanding of the nuances of corporate governance on a global scale.
• Experience with IPOs/IPO readiness.
• Strong organizational and communication skills.
• J.D. and active admission to a state bar.

Nice to have

• French language skills a plus.
• Experience in other areas such as reviewing/drafting employment-related agreements and commercial contracts; mergers and acquisitions/joint ventures; project financing a plus.

Culture & Benefits

• Be an integral part of an in-house legal team in a technology and mineral exploration company growing rapidly around the world.
• Have many opportunities to be involved in other areas as the company and its legal functions grow.
• Interest in working in a global company and learning many different foreign legal systems and business environments.
• Interest in working in a science-based company where most colleagues are scientists and science is the focus of many company meetings and documents.
• Strong ability to learn new tools and solve new problems continuously.
• Ability and desire to travel periodically (roughly 1x per quarter).