Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Emergent is seeking its first General Counsel to join our team in San Francisco. As a key member of our leadership, you will help shape the legal and regulatory foundation of one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world.
Responsibilities
- Lead negotiation and execution of enterprise customer agreements.
- Advise leadership on evolving AI regulations and legal frameworks globally.
- Support fundraising, board governance, and strategic transactions.
- Manage outside counsel across multiple jurisdictions.
- Develop and implement Emergent's IP strategy.
- Advise leadership on employment, compensation, equity, and organizational matters.
- Establish legal processes, systems, and operating models.
Requirements
- J.D. degree and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
- 8 to 15 years of legal experience.
- Combination of top-tier law firm and in-house experience.
- Experience supporting high-growth technology companies.
- Significant experience negotiating commercial and enterprise agreements.
- Strong business judgment and the ability to balance risk with speed.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Skills
- Experience at a high-growth AI, SaaS, developer tools, infrastructure, or enterprise software company.
- Experience as an early or first legal hire.
- Familiarity with AI, intellectual property, data privacy, and technology transactions.
- Experience supporting fundraising, board governance, and international expansion.
- Experience working directly with founders and executive teams.
We Offer
- Competitive salary and performance incentives.
- Meaningful equity ownership.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- 401(k).
- Unlimited Paid Time Off.
- Flexible Working Hours.
About the Company
Emergent enables anyone to build production software by describing what they want in natural language. Our coding agents handle the entire development stack-from frontend design, database setup, app deployment, and scaling-translating domain expertise directly into working applications without requiring any coding knowledge.
Founded by Mukund Jha and Madhav Jha, we've grown to 700,000+ users and $10M ARR in just 2 months from launch, making us one of the fastest-growing AI companies in history.
Join us in building the future of software.