Description:

Your Impact:
As A Free Online Writing Assistant Company Head of Corporate and Compliance Legal, you will leverage your deep corporate and compliance experience and expertise to support and accelerate A Free Online Writing Assistant Company next era of growth. You will take on critical and high-profile corporate and compliance projects with accuracy, creativity, and ownership. You will use your background and skill to efficiently use outside counsel and build in-house expertise.

In this role, you will:

Collaborate cross-functionally across the company at every level on corporate governance and compliance matters.
Work on corporate governance matters, including corporate entity management and new entity development and implementation, equity program strategic planning, and board-related matters.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to complete M&A transactions, including due diligence, negotiations, and integration planning.
Scope, develop, implement, and scale a corporate compliance program and organizational processes to support a maturing company.
Develop strategies for handling legal issues in creative ways and build processes for scaling flexible solutions that address risk.
Be a cross-functional leader and ensure our work is cohesive, thoughtfully crafted, and executed.

We're looking for someone who

Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
Is inspired by our MOVE principles, which are the blueprint for how things get done at A Free Online Writing Assistant Company: move fast and learn faster, obsess about creating customer value, value impact over activity, and embrace healthy disagreement rooted in trust.
Is able to collaborate in person in San Francisco and potentially other hubs 3 weeks per quarter.
Brings extensive experience (10+ years) and a proven background in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, due diligence, and integration activities, with training at a top-tier law firm and solid in-house experience.
Has experience supporting finance and investor relations at a high-growth and innovative technology company and a track record of driving alignment and delivering results on complex, cross-functional projects involving various stakeholders.
Shows a track record of managing, developing, and empowering teams.
Demonstrates excellent time management skills to juggle multiple time-sensitive projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
Is comfortable working with cross-functional teams and advising senior leaders on risk tolerance and balancing to drive the business forward.
Communicates clearly and empathetically both face-to-face and in writing.
Holds a JD and has been admitted to the bar, with a license to practice law in at least one US state.

Support for you, professionally and personally

Professional growth: We believe that autonomy and trust are key to empowering our team members to do their best, most innovative work in a way that aligns with their interests, talents, and well-being. We support professional development and advancement with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
A connected team: A Free Online Writing Assistant Company builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. Our remote-first hybrid model enables a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER (ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable) values. We work to foster belonging among team members in a variety of ways. This includes our employee resource groups, A Free Online Writing Assistant Company Circles, which promote connection among those with shared identities, such as BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ team members, women, and parents. We also celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific programs.