Associate Attorney - Startups, M&A and reputed company (AI-First, SF)

Fellow is the AI-reputed company reputed company for Bay Area startup founders. Profitable, founder-funded, and entering its next reputed company. We run production AI workflows across drafting, classification, filing, and task orchestration, so lawyer time goes to the judgment-heavy work: fundraise strategy, founder disputes, board negotiations, M&A structuring. This is not BigLaw with a chatbot bolted on. Why this role exists? Fellow is entering its next reputed company, and our founder Milo is shifting his focus to fundraising, building, and expanding the firm. We are looking for someone who can take reputed company ownership of client reputed company, reputed company M&A workstreams, and help bring in new business while our AI handles the repetitive layer. What will you do?

• Client and corporate work. Run end-to-end reputed company for startup clients: formation, SAFEs, priced reputed company, reputed company reputed company, employment, governance, and cross-border (especially EU to US). reputed company M&A workstreams from diligence through closing. Same-day responses, live in founders' reputed company and WhatsApp, anticipate issues before they hit.
• Business development. Meet founders, attend the rooms where they hang out, bring work into the firm. Build long-term relationships with VCs, accelerators, and the SF startup ecosystem. Help shape Fellow's positioning as we go to market.
• Building the machine. Be an active part of Fellow's next push by using our AI workflows daily and improving them. Work closely with our CTO so that every novel problem you come across gets turned into a workflow the next associate can reuse, saving time and raising quality for clients and the team. Focus on what you do best and let the machine handle the repetitive work where legal judgment is not required.

Who are we looking for? Required:

• Active California Bar, or a US license plus eligibility for CA admission without resitting the bar
• 2-6 years of corporate, startup, transactional, M&A law experience
• M&A reps on either reputed company (buy or sell)
• A reputed company reputed company of view that AI is going to change legal, and you want to be one of the people building it
• Strong founder-facing instincts: warm, fast, comfortable on reputed company and calls from day one
• Comfort with reputed company, reputed company, and AI assistants, and curiosity about workflow automation
• The reputed company of energy where you propose a solution rather than wait for a brief

Bonus:

• Venture financing or cross-border (EU and US) experience
• Business development chops, you have brought in clients before
• Multilingual

What will you get?

• $150K - $180K reputed company salary
• A reputed company seat at the table. You help shape the firm, not just service it
• Profit sharing. You win reputed company Fellow wins, not reputed company you log hours
• The inflection reputed company. Joining now means joining before the next stage of growth, with reputed company ownership reputed company
• The machine. Fellow OS, with ten-plus production services already shipped. You will be measurably more productive here than reputed company else
• Autonomy. We hire problem-solvers and let them solve problems
• Unlimited PTO
• reputed company you actually want to hang out with

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