# Senior Lawyer - Venture Financings

**Company**: Carta
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $208,000 - $317,000
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## The Role

You'll join Carta's Emerging Company Venture Capital (ECVC) function as a Senior Lawyer - Venture Financings. This role focuses on early-stage financing deals, managing client relationships, and serving as the primary point of contact for fundraising transactions.

## Responsibilities

- Serve as the primary point of contact for founders, venture capital funds, and their respective outside counsel, coordinating term sheet negotiation, diligence, signing, and post-closing deliverables

- Review and negotiate financing documents , SAFEs, convertible notes, and NVCA-form Stock Purchase Agreements, Investors' Rights Agreements, Voting Agreements, and ROFR/Co-Sale Agreements for priced rounds , advising on cap table, governance, and corporate matters that arise from each transaction

- Supervise and mentor paralegals through complex early-stage financing transactions , SAFEs, convertible notes, and a company's first priced equity round , ensuring documentation is accurate, timely, and aligned with client playbooks and market-standard terms

- Develop and evolve deal playbooks and negotiation parameters, alongside the MD, across company- and fund-side client engagements

- Build and deepen trusted relationships with founders, venture funds, accelerators, and outside counsel, positioning Carta Law as the go-to partner for early-stage financing work

- Support business development by contributing to new client pitches alongside the Growth team

- Partner with the technology team to continuously improve AI-driven legal delivery tools and workflows

## Requirements

- Experienced in ECVC law with a strong background in early-stage financings , SAFEs, convertible notes, and priced equity rounds

- Client-focused and commercially minded with strong relationships with founders, venture capital funds, and their counsel

- A natural leader and mentor with experience supervising paralegals

- Detail-driven and execution-focused with ability to prioritize effectively and handle competing deadlines

- Tech-savvy with comfort working with AI-backed legal tools

- Licensed to practice in California or a comparable jurisdiction with 7+ years of relevant experience

## Compensation

The minimum cash compensation (salary + commission if applicable) range for this role is $208,000 - $317,000 in San Francisco.

## Skills

### Required
- ECVC law
- early-stage financings
- SAFEs
- convertible notes
- NVCA-form Stock Purchase Agreements
- Investors' Rights Agreements
- Voting Agreements
- ROFR/Co-Sale Agreements
- AI-backed legal tools

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