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Corporate CounselMenlo Ventures • San Francisco, CA, United States
Corporate Counsel

Corporate Counsel

Menlo Ventures • San Francisco, CA, United States
30+ days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Harness is a high-growth company that is disrupting the software delivery market. Our mission is to enable the 30 million software developers in the world to deliver code to their users reliably, efficiently, securely and quickly, increasing customers’ pace of innovation while improving the developer experience. We offer solutions for every step of the software delivery lifecycle to build, test, secure, deploy and manage reliability, feature flags and cloud costs. The Harness Software Delivery Platform includes modules for CI, CD, Cloud Cost Management, Feature Flags, Service Reliability Management, Security Testing Orchestration, Chaos Engineering, Software Engineering Insights and continues to expand at an incredibly fast pace.

Harness is led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal, who founded AppDynamics and sold it to Cisco for $3.7B. We’re backed with $425M in venture financing from top-tier VC and strategic firms, including J.P. Morgan, Capital One Ventures, Citi Ventures, ServiceNow, Splunk Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Adage Capital Partners, Balyasny Asset Management, Gaingels, Harmonic Growth Partners, Menlo Ventures, IVP, Unusual Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Alkeon Capital, Battery Ventures, Sorenson Capital, Thomvest Ventures and Silicon Valley Bank.

Position Summary

We’re looking for an experienced Corporate Counsel to join our legal team. As a member of the legal team, you will work closely with colleagues across multiple internal functional groups on a wide range of corporate matters, including capital raising, corporate governance, securities law compliance, mergers and acquisitions, strategic transactions, and subsidiary management. This role reports to the Senior Director and Associate General Counsel, Head of Corporate and Securities.

About the role

  • Provide strategic legal counsel and guidance to the organization on a wide range of corporate and transactional matters, balancing business objectives with relevant legal compliance requirements and risks
  • Assist with capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic transactions, including drafting agreements and disclosures, coordinating internal teams, managing outside counsel, performing due diligence, facilitating closings, and supporting post-closing integration efforts
  • Draft and review board presentations and related materials, board and stockholder minutes and consents, website updates, and press releases
  • Manage corporate governance of international and domestic subsidiaries
  • Partner with our stock administration team to ensure a best-in-class equity program
  • Research and interpret regulations, laws, statutes, and guidelines, including but not limited to the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, with respect to strategic growth initiatives of the company and draft related SEC and other disclosures
  • Develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure compliance with securities and governance laws and regulations
  • Assist with sustainability matters and engagement activities, including formal and informal reporting on the organization’s narratives, progress, and results across relevant environmental, social, and governance (ESG) topic areas
  • Collaborate with teams across Harness, including finance, sales, marketing, engineering, and HR, on a range of projects and compliance processes
  • Support the continuous improvement of Harness and the legal team by helping to identify and implement improvements in processes, playbooks, policies, forms, and operations

About you

  • JD degree and admitted to the California state bar, or eligible to register as in-house counsel in California
  • 4+ years of relevant experience, including 3+ years of corporate and securities or M&A work at a major law firm; in-house experience optional
  • Experience representing emerging growth companies, especially at a late-stage private and / or fast-paced public company; IPO, periodic reporting, and M&A experience preferred
  • Able to triage a heavy workflow, setting appropriate expectations with internal clients and delivering results efficiently and effectively
  • Excellent analytical, communication, and organizational skills, and ability to manage several simultaneous projects under deadline pressure
  • Able to identify and analyze legal issues, draft key documents, and present clear recommendations
  • Demonstrated curiosity and interest in experimenting with new AI legal tools and ability to verify and contextualize results for business counterparts
  • Terrific sense of humor, disdain for drama, interest in learning new things, and desire to get things done
  • Work Location

  • Hybrid from our San Francisco Office
  • What you will have at Harness

  • Competitive salary
  • Comprehensive healthcare benefits
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Flexible work schedule
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Flexible Time Off and Parental Leave
  • Monthly, quarterly, and annual social and team building events
  • Monthly internet reimbursement
  • The anticipated base salary range for this position is between $200,000 and $210,000 annually. Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits. More details about our company benefits can be found at the following link : https : / / www.harness.io / company / careers.

    Pay transparency : $200,000 — $210,000 USD

    Harness in the news :

  • Harness AI Tackles Software Development’s Real Bottleneck
  • After 'Vibe Coding' Comes 'Vibe Testing' (Almost)
  • Startup Within a Startup : Empowering Intrapreneurs for Scalable Innovation - Jyoti Bansal (Harness)
  • Jyoti Bansal, Harness | theCUBEd Awards
  • Eight years after selling AppDynamics to Cisco, Jyoti Bansal is pursuing an unusual merger
  • Harness snags Split.io, as it goes all in on feature flags and experiments
  • Exclusive : Jyoti Bansal-led Harness has raised $150 million in debt financing
  • All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

    Note on Fraudulent Recruiting / Offers

    We have become aware that there may be fraudulent recruiting attempts being made by people posing as representatives of Harness. These scams may involve fake job postings, unsolicited emails, or messages claiming to be from our recruiters or hiring managers.

    Please note, we do not ask for sensitive or financial information via chat, text, or social media, and any email communications will come from the domain @harness.io. Additionally, Harness will never ask for any payment, fee to be paid, or purchases to be made by a job applicant. All applicants are encouraged to apply directly to our open jobs via our website. Interviews are generally conducted via Zoom video conference unless the candidate requests other accommodations.

    If you believe that you have been the target of an interview / offer scam by someone posing as a representative of Harness, please do not provide any personal or financial information and contact us immediately at security@harness.io. You can also find additional information about this type of scam and report any fraudulent employment offers via the Federal Trade Commission’s website (https : / / consumer.ftc.gov / articles / job-scams), or you can contact your local law enforcement agency.

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