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Salary: USD 125,000 - 165,000 / annual
SimpleClosure is building infrastructure to streamline business dissolution and shutdown processes. The company has raised over $20M from leading VCs and serves more than 7,000 companies, helping founders navigate legal, tax, operational, and administrative aspects of company closure while connecting them with asset buyers.
We seek a business-minded Legal Counsel to join as the second in-house attorney, working as a generalist across sales, operations, customer success, and commercial partnerships. This role extends beyond traditional in-house counsel work, encompassing customer-facing legal communications, sales support, deal-risk reviews, and building out legal function coverage across dissolution operations, commercial contracting, licensing, vendor management, and regulatory compliance across multiple jurisdictions.
Key responsibilities include providing practical, business-oriented legal advice to cross-functional teams; drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial agreements (licensing, vendor, partner contracts); advising sales on legal and regulatory questions in customer acquisition; supporting customer-facing legal communications and escalations; conducting legal research for expansion into new U.S. jurisdictions; identifying and assessing legal risks; building internal templates and playbooks; reviewing customer-facing and marketing materials for compliance; coordinating with outside counsel; and taking on additional projects as the business scales.
Required qualifications: JD from ABA-accredited law school with active bar membership in at least one U.S. state; 2-4 years of legal experience ideally mixing law firm and in-house work; strong commercial instincts with comfort reviewing contracts and advising business teams without over-lawyering; excellent communication skills translating complex legal concepts for non-legal stakeholders; detail-oriented with strong drafting skills; ability to operate independently in fast-paced startup environment with limited supervision. Experience in corporate dissolution, licensing, data privacy, corporate transactions, commercial contracting, or general in-house practice is a plus but not required.
Compensation: $125,000–$165,000 base salary depending on experience and location, plus competitive equity. Benefits include comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, unlimited PTO, hybrid work in Midtown NY or Santa Monica LA, two company-wide offsites annually, and 401(k) with immediate eligibility.
