We are looking for an excellent business-minded legal professional to join Trinsic as an extension of the leadership team. Trinsic operates in a highly-regulated industry across many geographies where “legal” is a key pillar of the value we provide to customers. As the architect of the legal and compliance functions at Trinsic, it’s hard to overstate the impact you’ll have on Trinsic’s trajectory, including our ability to fulfill our mission to make the world more accessible.

Job descriptions usually aren’t very helpful. Here are the things you probably care about:

• You’ll be a one-person legal department. You’ll join a team where your manager (the CEO, who is writing this 👋) cares deeply about this function & understands the problem space well. We optimize for talent density—the minimum number of maximally impactful people.
• You’ll be employee #10 at a high-intensity, fast-growth company our customers depend on in a rapidly-shifting $200B industry that impacts billions of people. We’re attempting to solve one of the only remaining truly unsolved problems on the web and we’ve found a wedge to actually do it.
• Everybody on the team is smart and down-to-earth. We don’t hire anyone with a history of being a jerk (we check references). We have the beginnings of a cool company culture that you’ll contribute to.
• You won’t be micromanaged. You’ll be given objectives, context, and a supportive team, and expected to take ownership & be accountable for results.
• We’re a remote company, and we lean into that. For example, we do a lot of asynchronous work through writing, messaging, etc. We travel twice yearly to get together for team meet-ups.
• There are things that are broken, fires burning, etc. (we don’t expect you to be perfect either). We expect you to bring a “let’s figure this out” mentality to solving problems.
• We offer comprehensive benefits, including health, dental, vision, travel stipend, no PTO cap, and parental leave.

We only hire high energy people who will do high quality work. We care about:

• Like all Trinsineers, your identity at Trinsic will be as a member of the team first, lawyer second. Some companies view legal as a drag or impediment. Trinsic is different—for us, legal & compliance are key growth accelerants. You must exemplify this mindset.
• At least 5-7 years of experience practicing law. (Happy to consider fewer years of experience for exceptional people.) Experience in commercial contracts, data protection (GDPR), and international compliance is required. Experience as in-house counsel is a bonus.
• You historically get more work done per unit of time than your peers.
• You will need to discern how to embrace AI to the maximum responsible degree. Good judgement here to balance actual risk, task efficiency, automation, etc. is critical.
• Excellent command of the English language, particularly in written form, required. Bonus if you are pedantic and precise with terminology, punctuation, formatting, etc.
• Highly driven disposition, self-motivation, comfort taking action in ambiguity. You enjoy being a problem solver who can be resourceful to find answers to complex regulatory questions. You automatically take the extra step (e.g. creating the internal compliance register instead of throwing it over the wall).
• This role requires a "nothing is beneath me" mentality. You'll handle everything from NDAs to complex international compliance strategies and high stakes negotiations. You'll also implicitly be a leader in the company.
• You should be comfortable managing people, both internal and external, including setting high expectations, holding accountable, and following through. We currently have 4 external law firms we’re using consistently, and other local counsel for specialist needs in various countries.
• You’ll be expected to be very smart about our industry & product quickly; and how the product relates to a myriad of regulations in various countries.
• Experience as counsel to venture-backed, early-stage startups is strongly preferred; e.g. financing, M&A, general corporate matters.