# Lead Legal Counsel, Corporate

**Company**: GitLab
**Location**: Remote, United States
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $168,000-$285,600 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

GitLab is seeking a Lead Legal Counsel, Corporate to join the Legal & Corporate Affairs (LACA) team. The successful candidate will own securities, public company reporting, and corporate governance work for GitLab, a growing public technology company.

Responsibilities:

- Own securities and public company reporting matters, working with internal stakeholders and external auditors on SEC filings, quarterly reports, earnings releases, and other public disclosures.

- Advise on corporate governance, including board and committee processes, the annual stockholders meeting, corporate approvals, equity plan matters, and executive compensation.

- Provide legal guidance on complex entity matters across jurisdictions, including formation, maintenance, reorganizations, intercompany agreements, and wind-downs.

- Support M&A and other strategic transactions, contributing to diligence, documentation, approvals, signing, closing, and post-closing integration.

- Engage and manage outside counsel across jurisdictions, coordinating work and ensuring practical, high-quality, and cost-effective advice.

- Identify legal and business risks, present clear options to senior stakeholders, and monitor legal developments to keep policies, processes, and controls current.

- Build and improve playbooks, checklists, templates, and workflows for recurring corporate legal work.

Requirements:

- 6+ years of demonstrated relevant legal experience, including law firm experience advising US-listed public companies on securities law, corporate governance, and public company reporting.

- A Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active admission to a US state bar.

- The ability to independently manage complex legal matters and cross-functional projects, prioritize competing needs, and drive work to completion with limited direction.

- Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain technical legal issues to non-lawyers and senior leaders and build trusted working relationships.

Benefits:

- Benefits to support health, finances, and well-being

- Flexible Paid Time Off

- Team Member Resource Groups

- Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan

- Growth and Development Fund

- Parental leave

- Home office support

## Skills

### Required
- securities law
- corporate governance
- public company reporting
- M&A
- legal project management

### Nice to have
- in-house experience
- public SaaS or software company experience
- cross-border corporate matters
- outside counsel management
- legal technology

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