Senior Legal Counsel

AirGarage

Senior Legal Counsel leading legal operations for AirGarage, a company optimizing parking facilities. Collaborating with CEO and leadership across various functions for strategic legal initiatives.

Posted 7/1/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $175,000 - $230,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the contracts that matter: Draft, negotiate, and close commercial agreements with property owners, vendors, strategic partners, and technology providers.
Support M&A execution: Assist with acquisitions across the full deal lifecycle; diligence, risk allocation, LOIs, purchase agreements, ancillary documents, closings, and post-close integration.
Enable real estate acquisitions: Partner with leadership and third-party partners on direct real estate acquisition — entity structuring, purchase agreements, title and diligence review, zoning and land use analysis, and financing documentation.
Own multi-state compliance: Maintain and extend our regulatory and permitting compliance infrastructure across 40+ states.
Protect our data practices: Own privacy policy, data governance, and compliance related to license plate recognition, camera systems, and driver data.
Protect our intellectual property: Manage AirGarage's IP portfolio, including trademarks, patents, and trade secrets.
Advise on employment and people matters: Provide practical, business-oriented counsel on employment law across multiple states.
Coordinate outside counsel: Support relationships with external firms for litigation, complex transactions, antitrust review, and specialized regulatory matters.
Support fundraising and corporate governance: Collaborate on cap table matters, board governance, investor rights agreements, and data room readiness.
Build the legal operating system: Develop and refine legal intake processes, contract lifecycle management, policy documentation, and approval workflows.
Be a true business partner: Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO and leadership team.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Hands-on experience within a lean legal function: You've been the sole or primary legal person at a high-growth company, or worked in a very small in-house team, and have personally drafted contracts, managed compliance, run diligence, and advised leadership (not delegated it to associates).
Equal parts strategist and executor: You're comfortable toggling between 10,000-ft strategy and ground-level detail.
Transaction experience: You've meaningfully supported M&A deals, ideally multiple acquisitions at a growth-stage company.
Multi-state operational fluency: Experience advising a business that operates physical locations, assets, or services across many states.
Commercial contracts depth: Strong command of MSAs, SOWs, licensing agreements, revenue-share structures, partnership agreements, and vendor contracts.
Data privacy knowledge: Familiarity with privacy regulations related to cameras, LPR/ALPR, and location data.
Story + judgment: Clear communicator who can translate legal risk into business terms for executives and operators.
Builder mentality: You've built (or have the expertise to build) legal playbooks, templates, SOPs, and contract management infrastructure from scratch.
Bias for action: You move fast, exercise judgment, and improve the system every cycle.
Strongly preferred: Real estate or proptech background, prior work at a company executing a roll-up or multi-unit acquisition strategy, and California bar admission.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity: Have a stake in the business that you’re helping to build and grow.
Work remotely: Live and work wherever you like! We believe in folks working where they are happiest and most productive.
Health insurance: We offer health insurance and currently cover 85% of the cost of medical, dental, and vision plans for the primary employee and 50% of the cost of plans for dependents.
Parental Leave: We offer 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave to all parents to bond with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child.
Home office setup: Get a laptop + additional equipment needed to set you up for success.
Time to recharge: We have an unlimited PTO policy with a minimum requirement of 10 days per year.
401k: Make financial planning right for you with a 401k retirement savings program.
Team Off-sites: ~2 times per year our team comes together for a full week in places like Tahoe, Charleston, San Diego, Park City, and Austin.
BookGarage: Our team loves to learn and grow together, so join us for our optional recurring book club.
Room to grow: Our team will be orders of magnitude larger within a few years; as a part of our foundational team, you'll have opportunities to grow with us.
Transform our cities: The opportunity to change the way that the world thinks about real estate use in our cities.
Work with a diverse team: At AirGarage, we've always been committed to building a thriving team that represents the communities we serve.

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Hard Skills & Tools

Contract DraftingCompliance ManagementDiligence SupportEntity StructuringZoning and Land Use AnalysisPrivacy Policy ManagementIntellectual Property ManagementEmployment Law CounselLegal Intake ProcessesContract Lifecycle Management

Soft Skills

Clear CommunicationStrategic ThinkingJudgmentBias for ActionBuilder Mentality

Certifications

California Bar Admission