Paralegal, KoBold Metals
$65-95k
Plus stock options
More information about location
AI-powered mineral exploration company
Open for applications
AI-powered mineral exploration company
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$65-95k
Plus stock options
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create value by discovering new ore deposits and expanding existing resources.
Role
Who you are
- A proven record, in academic work and/or employment, of the highest quality work showing commitment, collaboration, and intelligence
- Strong desire to spend a minimum of 3 years working and learning at an exciting company in preparation for the next steps of a legal career
- Strong desire and ability to provide leverage, support, and partnership to company’s attorneys
- Strong desire and ability to develop relationships throughout the company and beyond
- Strong organizational, leadership, technology and communication skills with great attention to detail - someone who likes to organize and be organized
- Interest in working in a science-based company where most colleagues are scientists and science is the focus of many company meetings and documents
- Interest in working in a global company, collaborating among teammates across many time zones and continents while learning many foreign legal systems and business environments
- Interest in learning and supporting many functions of a corporate legal team, ranging from transactions, compliance, IP/privacy, entity maintenance, and more
- Strong ability to learn new tools and solve new problems continuously
- Strong ability to be a leader in the setting a high standard of ethics
- An optimistic attitude toward work and people
- It is not necessary to have experience with mining or mineral exploration; the successful candidate will be able to learn what’s needed about the industry on the job
What the job involves
- We are hiring a Paralegal to accelerate our mission. We are looking for a detail-oriented, collaborative, and highly motivated individual who thrives in a fast-moving environment and gets excited about developing processes to improve effectiveness and efficiency
- Play an essential role in the legal department at a climate tech company growing rapidly around the world
- Create and maintain systems to give company attorneys, executives, investors, and scientists well-organized access to and ability to track contracts, confidential information, due diligence materials, other documents, and legal obligations
- Respond rapidly to questions and requests from the legal, finance, tax and other departments for documents, information, and analysis relating to any of the company’s legal and business functions worldwide
- Support company attorneys and executives in negotiations with mining companies, tech companies, governments, universities, vendors, and individuals worldwide
- Work with the company attorneys to create and maintain the records, policies, and systems that position the company for our everyday operations and most significant transactions, including commercial contracts, corporate financings and joint ventures
- Manage form agreements and draft simple contracts based on templates, including NDAs and vendor agreements
- Review highly confidential and important due diligence materials for potential transactions and manage confidential data rooms
- Assist with operationalizing and refining workflows within the legal department
- Engage with and support the company’s outside counsel around the world (U.S., Finland, Canada, Australia, DRC, Zambia, Namibia) to complete administrative work within the company, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in outside counsel expense
- Work with internal stakeholders, inventors, and outside counsel on the company’s patent prosecution by assisting with patent filings, maintaining intellectual property records, and tracking deadlines
- Work closely with scientists and engineers at the company to ensure compliance with confidentiality and data protection obligations
- Engage directly with staff at the company’s most important business partners to build relationships, resolve problems, and advance our business
- Provide leverage and support to the attorneys so that they are more effective at advancing the company’s priorities
- Work on whatever needs to be done
Our take
Supported by billionaires Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson, KoBold Metals utilises AI and Cloud computing techniques to assess the composition of the subsurface in order to explore metals that are used in making batteries installed in electric vehicles and clean energy technologies.
KoBold is a force in its field with significant financial backing, not just from the aforementioned tycoons, but thanks to Andreessen Horowitz, one of Silicon Valley’s leading venture capital funds. In 2019, this enabled KoBold to have funding available for four years, which, since then, has financed explorations at various locations, including Greenland.
As the climate crisis intensifies, the world has increasingly moved towards sustainability and hence demand for sustainable products like EVs has gone up, increasing the need for KoBold’s mineral exploration services. With recent approval for backing a new copper mine in Zambia, along with additional funding, the growing demand for sustainable resources positions KoBold for a promising future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2025
$527m
SERIES C
Jun 2023
$195m
SERIES B
Total funding: $934.5m
Company HQ
Downtown Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Leadership
Kurt House
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously founded a carbon Sequestration and enhanced oil recovery venture as well as a natural gas asset acquisition platform. They also worked in Private Equity and Corporate Consulting at Bain & Company and spent time as an Adjunct Professor at Stanford University.
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