Associate General Counsel Corporate
About the role
Senior corporate attorney responsible for the company’s corporate function, including governance, IPO readiness, financings, M&A, and international structure, with an AI-native approach to legal work.
Responsibilities
- Direct corporate governance at Deepgram, building the habits and systems that help us move with clarity and confidence.
- Drive the legal roadmap for IPO readiness — the compliance frameworks, future SEC reporting structures, and internal governance policies a public company runs on
- Prepare for, structure and execute financings that support our ambitions
- Lead our M&A legal work from conversation through integration to grow the company and widen what we're able to build
- Partner with Finance and People on employee equity — compensation programs, cap table, secondaries — and mature the machinery behind how every employee shares in what they build here
- Design the legal and business processes that let us scale globally with international subsidiaries
- Track the worldwide regulatory developments that touch our corporate structure and governance, and translate them into positions the company can act on
- Build the AI-native corporate practice at Deepgram with workflows and systems that scale our team's impact
- Roll up your sleeves on the full breadth of legal issues that come with being a fast-growing startup
Qualifications
- JD from a U.S. accredited law school and 7–15 years of experience in legal practice (or more), in-house, at a firm, or both
- Demonstrated strength in working with private, venture backed companies on a high growth trajectory, including on IPO readiness
- Fluency in IPO readiness, financings, M&A, governance, Board matters, employee equity, and international structures
- Exceptional writing — precise, plain, and compelling
Skills
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus
- 10% Annual Performance Bonus

About Deepgram
Building foundational AI for speech transcription and understanding.
Deepgram is a foundational AI company on a mission to understand human language. We give any developer access to the most advanced speech AI transcription and understanding with just an API call. Our models deliver the fastest, most accurate transcription alongside contextual features like summarization, sentiment analysis, and topic detection. Beyond that, developers can: 🔊 Process live-streaming or pre-recorded audio 🌎 Transcribe in dozens of languages ⚙️ Train custom models for unique use cases 🔑 Access deep NLU with a unified API 💻 Build in any programming language with our SDKs ✅ Deploy on-prem or on DG’s managed cloud 📈 Get scalable GPU infra for training and inference Deepgram is a proud NVIDIA partner and Y Combinator company, and we recently completed a $72M Series B to define the future of AI Speech Understanding, making us the most-funded speech AI company at its stage.
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