Assistant General Counsel, KoBold Metals
Transactions
$210-280k
Plus equity. Salary represents US base salary range
More information about location
AI-powered mineral exploration
Be an early applicant
AI-powered mineral exploration
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$210-280k
Plus equity. Salary represents US base salary range
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
- 8-12 years of experience, with a minimum of 4 years at a top law firm as a corporate associate, ideally followed by time working in-house supporting an business development group as their client
- Solid experience being primary attorney on transactions from diligence to close (including joint ventures, project financings, credit agreements, and purchase and sale agreements)
- Excellent drafting and contracts skills
- Strong desire and ability to provide leverage, support, and partnership to the CLO and DGC
- Interest in working in a global company and learning many different foreign legal systems and business environments
- Interest in working in a company that requires high levels of collaboration and communication among teammates working remotely across many time zones and continents
- Strong desire and ability to develop relationships throughout the company and beyond
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Interest in working in a science-based company where most colleagues are scientists and science is the focus of many company meetings and documents
- Strong ability to learn new tools and solve new problems continuously
- An optimistic attitude toward work, people and problem-solving bespoke problems of first instance
- Strong ability to be a leader in setting a high standard of ethics
- Ability and desire to travel periodically (roughly 1x per quarter)
- J.D. (from a top law school a plus) and active admission to a state bar
- French language skills a plus
- Experience in other areas such as tax restructurings; subsidiary management; commercial contracts (vendor, consulting, services, SaaS, licensing, IT); and/or employment-related agreements a plus
- 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
- This in-house corporate attorney will play an important role in building a global AI-driven clean-tech company that invents breakthrough technology, discovers billions of dollars of minerals, and helps to stop climate change
- Be an integral part of an in-house legal team in a technology and mineral exploration company growing rapidly around the world
- Provide leverage and support to the CLO and DGC so that they are more effective at advancing the company’s priorities
- Develop major parts of the company’s legal function with a particular focus on M&A, project and debt financing, and transactions
- Have many opportunities to be involved in other areas as the company and its legal functions grow
- Create processes and policies to help build a high-functioning legal department
- Represent the company in negotiations throughout the U.S. and abroad with mining companies, tech companies, governments, universities, vendors, and individuals
- Review, draft, and advise on complex transactions spanning multiple jurisdictions
- Lead due diligence efforts when the company is conducting diligence about an opportunity and when we are responding to diligence requests
- Provide immediate legal and business advice to internal clients who include senior executives, finance, corporate development, HR and talent acquisition, geologists, data scientists, and software engineers
- Write, revise, and review documents regarding every part of the business
- Guide and support the company’s global business operations using legal and business skills, such as management of confidential information, tax structuring, and building organizational processes
- Work across the company to set and meet high standards of ethics, with a focus on safety, anti-corruption, community support, environmental protection, anti-discrimination, and integrity
- Hire and supervise outside counsel across many subject areas and jurisdictions
- 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 has financed explorations at various locations, including Greenland.
As the climate crisis intensifies, the world has increasingly moved towards sustainability. So the demand for products like EVs has gone up, increasing the need for KoBold’s mineral exploration services. The company continues to get approval for new explorations and raise additional funds that propel it towards a successful future.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2025
$163m
LATE VC
Jan 2025
$527m
SERIES C
Total funding: $1.1bn
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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