Head of Legal, Aeva

• 10+ years of combined professional legal experience at both a top-tier law firm and in-house head of counsel experience
• Expertise in drafting and negotiating complex commercial business and supply agreements with a focus on hardware products and software features
• Experience working on public company corporate security matters such as SEC filings, corporate governance, and complex transactions
• Experience managing other attorneys in a growing legal department
• High standard of ethics along with the ability to act with discretion, strict confidentiality, and sensitivity towards issues and individuals
• Excellent communicator with the ability to explain your processes, logic, and decisions
• Admittance to the bar in the state of California and in good standing or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status)

Desirable

• Advising the CEO on a variety of legal and business issues
• Develop and implement the mission for the legal department and set our legal strategy around the product, corporate, regulatory, and commercial opportunities
• Partnering with the executives, sales, and business operations teams to manage risk and implement strategies related to agreements, commercial, etc
• Partner with the internal Human Resource department around employment law and employment relation matters
• Lead on behalf of legal to ensure compliance with federal securities laws and regulations, including preparation and filing of Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, proxy statements, and other SEC filings and reports
• Coordinate and oversee relationships with external counsel and legal advisors
• This hire will have the opportunity to build the legal department, scale the team, and develop processes and infrastructure while reducing reliance on outside counsel