Traversal

Traversal

Senior Legal Counsel

New York · Senior · Full-time

Sponsorship not specified$200k-$400kDetected 30 days ago
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Lottery odds (Level IV)94
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About the role

  • The majority of your time will be spent leading commercial contract negotiations with enterprise customers, while also serving as a trusted generalist advisor on corporate, compliance, and employment matters as the company scales.
  • This is a rare opportunity to shape how a fast-growing AI company approaches legal risk and process, with direct visibility into deals, product strategy, and executive decision-making.

Responsibilities

  • Build the legal function from scratch - templates, playbooks, and approval workflows - so the business can scale without bottlenecking on legal review.
  • Advise on employment matters (offer letters, policies, terminations) and partner with the Head of Operations on vendor and procurement contracts.
  • Manage outside counsel relationships across specialty areas (IP, litigation, international expansion) for efficient, cost-effective use of external legal spend.
  • Production complexity was already outpacing what engineering teams could manage manually, and AI-generated code is accelerating that gap.
  • Traversal is fully in-office, 5 days a week, based in New York near Madison Square Park. We have a collaborative, hard-working culture and are energized by building the future of AI-powered software maintenance.
  • We have a collaborative, hard-working culture and are energized by building the future of AI-powered software maintenance.
  • Own compliance and risk across data privacy and security certifications (SOC 2, GDPR/CCPA) and emerging regulatory considerations relevant to an AI product operating inside customers' production environments.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of legal experience, with a mix of law firm training and in-house experience, ideally at a B2B SaaS or enterprise software company.
  • Deep expertise drafting and negotiating enterprise commercial agreements (MSAs, SaaS terms, DPAs, security addenda) with sophisticated enterprise counterparties.
  • Working knowledge of data privacy and security frameworks (GDPR, CCPA, SOC 2) relevant to software with access to customer production systems.
  • Comfort operating as a generalist "department of one" - able to triage corporate, employment, and compliance questions, escalating to outside counsel when needed.

Nice to have

  • Experience with AI/ML-specific legal and regulatory issues (model risk, AI governance frameworks, emerging AI regulation).
  • Experience supporting fundraising (venture financings, SAFEs, board governance).
  • Familiarity with contract lifecycle management (CLM) tooling and legal ops processes.
  • Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
  • Traversal is a place to take on hard, meaningful problems with real ownership from day one.
  • You'll work alongside people who challenge you to grow, learn constantly, and help define a new category of infrastructure software.
  • We think long term, move quickly, and hold a high bar without taking ourselves too seriously.
  • Traversal is fully in-office, 5 days a week, based in New York near Madison Square Park.

Compensation

  • We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and additional benefits.
  • The U.S. base salary range for this full-time, in-person role in New York is $200,000-$400,000, plus equity and benefits.
  • Our salary ranges are based on location, level, and role.
  • Individual compensation is determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.
  • We offer competitive salary and equity packages, health insurance, fertility benefits, a great tech setup stipend and flexible time off.
  • Plus in-office snacks, team happy hours and outings, an annual company offsite, and plenty of built in time to collaborate across teams.

Benefits

  • Serve as primary legal advisor to the executive team on corporate matters: entity governance, board materials, equity administration, and support for future fundraising.

Company info

  • Our mission is to free engineers from endless firefighting and give them more time to focus on creative, high-impact work.
  • Own commercial contracting end-to-end: draft, negotiate, and close enterprise customer agreements (MSAs, DPAs, security/privacy addenda, order forms) with large enterprise customers, balancing legal risk with sales velocity.
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