Corporate Counsel, Couchbase
$145-194k
+ Bonus, commissions and equity available
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Operational data platform for AI
Job no longer available
Operational data platform for AI
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$145-194k
+ Bonus, commissions and equity available
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To simplify how organizations develop, deploy, and run modern applications wherever they are.
Role
Who you are
- J.D. with excellent academic credentials
- Minimum of 2 years of corporate and securities experience at a top tier law firm
- Licensed to practice law in at least one U.S. state
- Excellent oral and written communication skills with significant attention to detail
- Demonstrated ability to be organized, work efficiently, prioritize workflow, meet deadlines, and manage cross-functional projects
- Sound and practical business judgment with an awareness of when issues need to be escalated
- Proven track record of learning quickly, taking initiative, working proactively, being resourceful and taking on additional responsibility
What the job involves
- This is an exciting opportunity to join an incredible legal team reporting to Associate General Counsel, Corporate, Compliance and Employment
- Ownership of legal review of SEC filings in collaboration with our SEC reporting team, including Forms 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K
- Drive the proxy statement and annual stockholders’ meeting processes
- Review and own beneficial ownership reports on Forms 3, 4 and 5
- Advise on quarterly earnings release materials and securities law compliance and disclosure matters, including disclosure controls and procedures
- Monitor and advise on new SEC rule makings
- Advise and support the company’s compliance with applicable securities laws as well as applicable stock exchange requirements
- Assist with investor relations in drafting and vetting investor-facing and other corporate communication
- Monitor equity-related compliance matters, including administration of our insider trading policy and 10b5-1 guidelines
- Assist with board and committee meeting preparation, including drafting and reviewing board resolutions, minutes and corporate policies, and general corporate hygiene
- Provide legal support for maintenance of Couchbase subsidiaries and international compliance
- Strategic counseling on and interpretation of company policies and procedures, including ethics and insider trading policies
- Advise and assist on other corporate governance matters, including with respect to executive compensation, ESG efforts and reporting
- Coordinate with and oversee outside counsel
- Participate in cross-departmental initiatives to design and implement organization-wide objectives
- Assist in M&A, real estate, capital markets or other special transactions as needed, including equity and debt offerings
- Opportunity to take on further responsibilities within Couchbase Legal, such as employment, compliance or commercial legal matters
- Within 30 days, understand key policies and procedures; collaborate with personnel with significant contributor roles in corporate matters; and integrate into and contribute to securities and governance work streams
- Within 60 days, drive some securities and governance work streams with supervision/visibility of the Associate General Counsel - Corporate; understand when to escalate key risks or action items for decision; demonstrate ability to clearly communicate business risk while proposing effective solutions
- Within 120 days, drive >50% of securities and governance work streams; act as key point of contact with collaborating teams for corporate matters; act as key contributor and liaison to other teams for cross-functional projects; begin assisting on projects within employment, compliance and/or commercial matters
Our take
Critical functions for digital businesses such as computing and storage have become cheaper by orders of magnitude with the advent of cloud computing. However, these businesses still face the challenge of architecting their services under this paradigm. Couchbase’s NoSQL database is designed to help organizations build scalable, distributed systems that take advantage of cloud-native infrastructure.
The company's major bets on Kubernetes, mobile and NoSQL have paid off too. With many large enterprises now treating Couchbase as mission-critical infrastructure, a trajectory that culminated because of ts 2021 IPO. While it operates in a highly competitive database market, the company has continued to grow post-IPO and is now positioning itself around the next shift in enterprise architecture: AI-native applications.
The recent launch of Couchbase AI Services reflects an effort to unify operational data, vector search and model hosting within a single platform, reducing the complexity that often prevents generative AI and agent-based systems from moving beyond proof-of-concept. By embedding governance, validation and security controls directly into the data layer, Couchbase is aiming to make its database a core foundation for production AI workloads.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
May 2020
$105m
SERIES G
Mar 2016
$30m
SERIES F
Total funding: $251m
Company HQ
Cypress, San Jose, CA
Leadership
BJ Schaknowski
(CEO)Prior to joining Couchbase in 2025, BJ was the CEO of symplr. He also served as the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Vertafore and as an SVP of Marketing, Sales & Services at LexisNexis Software Solutions.
Veronica Curran
(CPO)Veronica Previously founded Magnolia People Solutions where she served as a Managing Partner for nearly 2 years. Prior to that, she was the Chief People and culture Officer at SmartBear and the CPO at Alumni Ventures Group.
Gopi Duddi
(CTO)Gopi joined Couchbase in 2022 as an SVP of Engineering, moving into the role of CTO in 2025. Prior to this, he spent 10 years at Amazon AWS, joining in 2012 as a Senior Manager of Database Services before moving into the role of GM. He also spent 7 years at IBM In various Managerial roles.
Josh Harbert
(CMO)Josh is also the co-founder and President of SustainableIT.org. Previously, he served as the CMO at Delphix and the VP of Marketing at Tanium and Qumulo.
Amir Jafari
(CFO)Amir is also the CFO/Head of Finance & Operations at Blend. Previously, he served as the CFO at Plastiq and Reputation.com.
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