Senior Counsel, Fieldguide
$200-260k
+ Equity and bonus
Software for assurance & advisory firms
Be an early applicant
Software for assurance & advisory firms
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-260k
+ Equity and bonus
101-200 employees
Company mission
Fieldguide's mission is to increase trust in commerce and capital markets.
Role
Who you are
- The right person is commercially oriented, technically fluent in AI and SaaS contracts, and genuinely excited to build rather than inherit
- J.D. from an accredited law school; active bar admission in good standing
- 8-10 years of legal experience, including 3-4 years at a law firm working across many client types and deal structures, followed by 5-6 years in-house at a B2B SaaS company, preferably at Series B-D
- Deep fluency in commercial SaaS contracts (MSAs, DPAs, BAAs, SLAs), with substantive AI and data licensing experience: you have negotiated AI vendor agreements, advised on model and IP risk, and understand the underlying technology well enough to negotiate it, not just the legal wrapper
- Demonstrated data privacy experience with GDPR, CCPA, and SOC 2 legal obligations; credible in DPA negotiations with enterprise customers
- Track record of building legal infrastructure from scratch: contract templates, playbooks, and CLM implementations, or compliance programs that created institutional memory and reduced cycle time
- Comfortable operating as the only lawyer in the building—approaches legal risk as a trade-off problem, not a binary; delivers practical, business-oriented guidance under time pressure
- Experience at a B2B SaaS company serving professional services, fintech, or regulated industries is a plus; familiarity with agentic AI or AI infrastructure agreements is a meaningful advantage
What the job involves
- This is a lean, high-leverage individual contributor role
- You will own commercial paper from negotiation through execution, build the legal infrastructure the company does not yet have, and serve as a real-time advisor to the GTM, People, and Finance teams
- Specialized matters—IP litigation, securities, M&A—will remain with retained outside counsel
- You own everything commercial, and you manage the outside counsel relationship
- This role is built for a legal professional who wants to own outcomes, not just advise on them
- Own negotiation and execution of all commercial agreements—MSAs, SaaS subscription agreements, DPAs, BAAs, and NDAs—with Fieldguide's enterprise accounting firm customers; define a risk tiering framework that calibrates review to deal size and complexity; be a deal enabler for the GTM team, not a bottleneck
- Build and maintain a contract playbook with tiered positions by clause type and a standard paper library so nothing starts from scratch; leverage AI / Agentic solutions to scale legal operations, build institutional memory that compounds in value over time
- Own AI and data licensing negotiations such as data use rights, model risk provisions, output ownership, IP indemnification, and maintain Fieldguide's AI commercial policy framework and open source compliance program
- Review and maintain employment agreements, contractor agreements, and offer letters; advise People team on multi-state and international compliance
- Serve as the company's primary legal liaison to the board on corporate governance matters, including board documentation, equity records, and corporate filings in coordination with Finance
Our take
Fieldguide offers a cloud-native collaboration and automation platform for accounting and advisory practices. The idea is to make workflow and collaboration more streamlined, and automate parts of it altogether, for teams working on cybersecurity, risk, and ESG audits.
Fieldguide has launched with a focus on three high-demand and high-growth areas of business. With cybersecurity and ESG in particular seeing increased corporate investment, thanks to the steep costs of error or regulatory non-compliance, demand for tech that can help manage this influx of auditing work is likely to grow fast. Indeed, Fieldguide received an impressive funding injection in 2024 that will help expand the kinds of audits its product applies to, as well as grow its team.
Fieldguide has already netted some key audit and advisory firms as clients, suggesting that the young company is onto something good. Internal productivity tools are booming across multiple industries, with automation also seeing a significant uptake for enterprise businesses. If Fieldguide can successfully manage its scale-up, it could become an important software player.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2026
$75m
SERIES C
Mar 2024
$30m
SERIES B
Total funding: $122.4m
Company benefits
- Health
- Dental
- PTO
Company HQ
Eureka Valley, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Chris Szymansky
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously co-founded live video streaming platform Vivo, before moving on to work in software development at Fireman Creative. Subsequently held various high level positions, including CTO at JazzHR, and VP of Engineering, Product, and Design at Atrium.
Jin Chang
(Co-Founder & CEO)Originally a Management Consultant at EY, before co-founding blockchain aggregation API company, Bitbutter. Moved on to serve as Chief of Staff at Atrium.
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