Top Legal Jobs in San Francisco Bay Area, CA

Lead securities, public company reporting, corporate governance, entity management, and M&A legal work for GitLab. Manage SEC filings, proxy statements, board matters, equity plans, subsidiary governance, transactions, and outside counsel. Advise senior stakeholders on legal risks, maintain compliance processes, and create scalable legal playbooks, templates, and workflows. Collaborate with globally distributed cross-functional teams and train junior legal professionals.

Leads Blee’s Legal Engineering function, translating advertising, consumer protection, and regulatory requirements into scalable AI review logic. Owns legal frameworks, quality measurement, regulatory updates, customer guidance, product collaboration, and team growth. Partners with legal, compliance, product, implementation, customer success, and AI engineering teams while representing Blee externally. Also supports in-house legal matters, including commercial agreements.

Provides advanced legal and business research, leads complex client-facing projects, develops research plans and deliverables, advises on knowledge management and emerging research technologies, mentors junior researchers, and improves scalable research processes. The role requires independent project ownership, strong client service, sophisticated written and verbal communication, and expertise with legal research databases and information resources.

Provide commercial legal advice to US go-to-market teams, lead drafting and negotiation of SaaS contracts, advise on US and international privacy matters, create self-service legal tools and templates, and support US employment law guidance. The role requires a US-licensed attorney who can work autonomously in a fast-paced SaaS environment and provide practical, commercially focused counsel.

Provides administrative and legal support to the health system’s contracting and transactional legal functions. Responsibilities include calendar and travel coordination, preparing and circulating documents, managing contract and case files, tracking signatures and execution, maintaining legal databases, conducting vendor sanction and registration checks, organizing discovery and due diligence materials, searching legal records, and training personnel on contract management systems.

Build and operate Kastle’s AI compliance program for lending and banking workflows. Translate regulations into product requirements, compliance tests, controls, policies, and customer guidance. Advise product and engineering teams, review AI interactions and disclosures, maintain regulatory requirements, partner with bank compliance teams, and draft or negotiate commercial, data protection, and compliance agreements.

Senior corporate securities counsel supporting SEC reporting, proxy statements, securities compliance, capital markets, securitizations, debt financings, and treasury transactions. The role advises executives and cross-functional partners, negotiates transaction documents, manages outside counsel, oversees financing subsidiary governance, and improves legal processes through scalable templates, controls, and playbooks.

Head of Legal will serve as Develop Health’s first in-house lawyer, owning commercial contracts, negotiations, legal processes, compliance partnership, outside counsel, and financing support. The role will create contract templates, playbooks, fallback positions, escalation rules, and self-service tools while advising product and engineering on compliant solutions. This hands-on individual contributor role reports to the CEO and works onsite three days weekly in Menlo Park or San Francisco.

Supports in-house counsel through legal and regulatory research, compliance reporting, contracting assistance, legal education coordination, and process improvement. Tracks regulatory developments across U.S. and international jurisdictions, assesses impacts on the company and customers, collaborates with Sales, Marketing, and Engineering, and helps implement tools for contract management and legal operations efficiency.

Leads Sony Interactive Entertainment’s global Product Counsel function across PlayStation hardware, software, and services. Manages legal professionals, advises product, engineering, design, security, privacy, and business teams throughout product development, and provides strategic guidance on international regulatory, compliance, privacy, safety, e-commerce, intellectual property, and consumer protection issues. The role develops global legal advice, manages cross-functional initiatives, establishes processes, provides training, and balances legal risk with business objectives.

Supports three litigation attorneys with deadline management, court docket verification, state and federal e-filing, document preparation, redactions, Bates stamping, exhibit organization, and administrative tasks. Coordinates work across offices and with remote support teams, while handling travel bookings, expense reports, and attorney time entry. Requires at least three years of litigation legal assistant or paralegal experience, strong e-filing and docketing expertise, Microsoft Office proficiency, and exceptional attention to detail.

Own Kovo’s legal and compliance function as its sole attorney, supporting fintech product design, regulatory strategy, licensing, bank partnerships, privacy, BSA/AML/KYC, fraud policy, disputes, audits, and marketing review. Build new consumer financial products with minimal regulatory obligations, automate recurring legal operations using AI agents, manage outside counsel, and represent the company with regulators, banks, partners, and auditors.

Support attorneys and startup clients with venture financings, entity formations, equity plans, cap table administration, corporate housekeeping, and startup-side M&A. Manage diligence, closing logistics, resolutions, records, and client communications while using AI-native workflows to improve drafting and deal processes.

General Legal seeks U.S.-barred attorneys for future opportunities across technology transactions, employment, data privacy, financial regulation, blockchain, cryptocurrency, litigation, IP, corporate, and venture capital. Attorneys will deliver sophisticated legal work using AI-native workflows, advise high-growth companies, communicate directly with business stakeholders, and work independently in a remote-first environment. Relevant substantive experience is required, while technology-company experience, process improvement, mentoring, and subject-matter leadership are preferred.

Owns and executes high-volume transactional legal work across land, energy, procurement, construction, joint ventures, acquisitions, and project financing. Drafts and negotiates agreements, supports development and entitlement matters, manages outside counsel, oversees corporate compliance and entity management, and builds contract-management systems, templates, playbooks, and processes to improve legal throughput and consistency.

Leads legal operations transformation and enablement, including legal technology architecture, AI-enabled workflows, contract lifecycle management, process optimization, metrics, vendor management, change management, and budgeting. Builds scalable contracting infrastructure, improves self-service and legal intake, reduces outside counsel reliance, partners with IT and enterprise teams on technology delivery, and manages legal operations staff while supporting commercial and procurement contracting.

Leads Timber’s internal legal strategy and compliance framework, including contracts, intellectual property, corporate governance, marketplace agreements, regulatory risk, and legal documentation. Advises the founding team, coordinates with outside counsel, supports fundraising diligence, maintains corporate records, and establishes reusable legal templates and processes. This is a remote, equity-only, hours-as-needed founding-team role with potential to become full-time as the company grows.

Supports corporate counsel, legal, privacy, compliance, and licensure teams through legal research, case review, document preparation, contract and records management, deadline tracking, and internal client coordination. Maintains legal systems, templates, corporate records, certifications, and reports while assisting with contracts, partnerships, sponsorships, and other corporate matters. The role requires strong organization, problem-solving, writing, business-process analysis, and attention to detail.

Supports international legal operations across LATAM, including drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, legal and regulatory research, litigation support, corporate housekeeping, compliance projects, certification processes, and regulator communications. Maintains contract repositories and legal libraries, tracks deadlines and certifications, coordinates with external counsel, testing laboratories, vendors, and regulators, and prepares reports for leadership. Requires a law degree, active bar membership, fluent English and Spanish, strong organization, and attention to detail.

Senior Legal Counsel will manage private-market investment transactions, including SPV diligence, offering reviews, fund structuring, securities regulatory analysis, investment-document drafting and negotiation, side letters, closings, and product counseling. The role partners with business, product, engineering, operations, and compliance teams while building scalable legal templates, playbooks, and workflows. Candidates need U.S. bar membership, a JD, and 4–7 years of relevant funds, securities, or capital markets experience.

Analyzes state healthcare and health insurance legislation and regulations; prepares bill analyses, policy briefs, legislative updates, comment letters, talking points, and strategy memos. Maintains legislative tracking records in iTrak, supports state advocacy priorities, responds to member inquiries, participates in policy committees, and contributes to policy toolkits and research repositories.

Senior Legal Counsel will own commercial contracting, product counseling, corporate governance, entity management, employment matters, litigation, disputes, and subpoena responses. The role partners across product, engineering, operations, compliance, finance, and HR; builds legal processes, templates, playbooks, and intake workflows; and provides practical guidance for a growing regulated financial technology company.

Serve as the primary legal partner to Procurement, drafting and negotiating high-value buy-side agreements across SaaS, software, marketing, facilities, professional services, and real estate. Provide guidance on complex transactions, risk allocation, data privacy, technology contracting, and vendor risk. Develop scalable contracting processes, playbooks, templates, training, and knowledge resources while leveraging automation and legal technology. Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders and support broader Legal team initiatives.

Owns legal request intake and routing for a lean in-house legal team. Responsibilities include preparing public-sector deal paperwork, managing insurance and corporate compliance calendars, maintaining legal technology and templates, developing AI-enabled workflows, reviewing routine legal documents, producing operational scorecards, and handling sensitive matters such as investigations, litigation, M&A, and criminal justice data.

The Commercial Legal Director will lead complex technology and commercial transactions, negotiate SaaS, licensing, partnership, marketing, and services agreements, and develop scalable legal contracting standards. The role advises teams on AI, intellectual property, privacy, security, and regulatory issues; improves contracting workflows using Ironclad and AI-enabled tools; and partners with senior stakeholders across product, engineering, finance, marketing, and people operations.