General Counsel
On-sitePalo Alto, California, United States
Job Summary
Own Odyssey's entire legal surface as the first internal counsel, covering corporate, commercial, employment, IP, data/privacy, and regulatory matters. Serve as the legal partner on compute and infrastructure deals, structuring and negotiating multi-cloud and hyperscaler commitments alongside finance and leadership. Drive commercial, customer, vendor, and partnership contracts at speed, building templates and playbooks so legal scales with the company. Manage employment, corporate, governance, and entity matters across the US, UK, and Switzerland, while supporting financing and board work. Decide what stays in-house versus external counsel, managing vendors to cut cost and turnaround times. Stand up the processes, tooling, and knowledge base for a legal function built from scratch, ensuring US employment compliance including payroll, leave laws, state registrations, I-9s, and required trainings.
Required Qualifications
- A generalist with deep subject-matter expertise in bleeding-edge technology: AI, autonomous vehicles, robotics, or AI infrastructure / deep tech.
- Supported complex R&D partnership with long negotiation timelines, interfacing with the technical and commercial stakeholders with competence.
- Experienced with the mechanics of compute, infrastructure, or complex commercial deals (direct experience or close exposure).
- From a top-tier firm or in-house at a frontier/deep-tech company.
- International in outlook, with cross-border legal experience.
- A 0→1 builder with high agency and clock speed who works as an advising authority alongside the leadership team.
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