General Counsel (Robotics)

Location: Hybrid, with three days per week on-site at the Manhattan or Glen Cove, NY office.

Salary: $205,800–$265,000 per year, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global builds industrial robots designed to be powerful, affordable, and scalable for enterprise, defense, reseller, supplier, and international markets.

What you will do

• Own drafting, review, and negotiation of customer, NDA, supply, reseller, and supplier agreements.
• Standardize terms and conditions and build contract clause playbooks with fallback positions and escalation triggers.
• Structure liability, indemnification, insurance, and warranty provisions for industrial hardware and robotics safety requirements.
• Negotiate data processing agreements, privacy terms, AI-use provisions, and defense customer compliance requirements.
• Support international expansion, subsidiary formation, cross-border contracting, strategic transactions, investments, partnerships, and IP-related deal terms.
• Handle employment matters, coordinate outside counsel, and serve as the primary legal contact across the company.

Requirements

• J.D. and admission to practice in New York, with experience addressing legal matters in other states.
• 6–10 years of experience focused substantially on commercial contracts and technology transactions.
• Experience with hardware, industrial technology, robotics, or manufacturing companies, including physical products, supply chains, and product liability.
• Experience negotiating directly with sophisticated counterparties, including large enterprise legal teams.
• Strong judgment, pragmatism, business focus, and the ability to explain legal risk clearly to non-lawyers.
• Reliable availability to work on-site in Manhattan or Glen Cove three days per week.

Nice to have

• Government contracting experience involving DFARS flowdowns, CMMC, or NIST SP 800-171.
• Employment law, employment litigation management, data privacy, or international expansion experience.
• Corporate, M&A, venture transaction, or IP deal experience.
• Experience building a legal function at a high-growth startup.
• Experience supporting an IPO or public-company obligations, including SEC reporting, governance, or SOX compliance.

Culture & Benefits

• Opportunity to serve as the first in-house legal hire and build the legal function from the ground up.
• Paid time off and medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance and disability insurance.
• 401(k) for regular full-time employees.
• Employee stock options for eligible full-time employees.