What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Counsel position at Fieldguide?
About Us
Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners specifically within cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audit. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.
We’re based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We're backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more.
We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth.
As an early stage start-up employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by bringing together up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide.
About The Role
Fieldguide is an AI-native platform built for audit, advisory, and assurance workflows. Our customers are sophisticated audit and accounting firms operating in highly regulated environments, where data confidentiality, professional liability, and regulatory exposure are central to how they evaluate every vendor. We are at a Series C inflection point—growing revenue, headcount, and commercial complexity simultaneously—and hiring our first in-house Senior Counsel to own the legal function end-to-end.
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. The right person is commercially oriented, technically fluent in AI and SaaS contracts, and genuinely excited to build rather than inherit. This role is built for a legal professional who wants to own outcomes, not just advise on them.
What You'll Do
Fieldguide is a values-based company. Our values are:
Fieldguide is establishing a new state of trust for global commerce and capital markets through automating and streamlining the work of assurance and audit practitioners specifically within cybersecurity, privacy, and financial audit. Put simply, we build software for the people who enable trust between businesses.
We’re based in San Francisco, CA, but built as a remote-first company that enables you to do your best work from anywhere. We're backed by top investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Bessemer Venture Partners, 8VC, Floodgate, Y Combinator, DNX Ventures, Global Founders Capital, Justin Kan, Elad Gil, and more.
We value diversity — in backgrounds and in experiences. We need people from all backgrounds and walks of life to help build the future of audit and advisory. Fieldguide’s team is inclusive, driven, humble and supportive. We are deliberate and self-reflective about the kind of team and culture that we are building, seeking teammates that are not only strong in their own aptitudes but care deeply about supporting each other's growth.
As an early stage start-up employee, you’ll have the opportunity to build out the future of business trust. We make audit practitioners’ lives easier by bringing together up to 50% of their work and giving them better work-life balance. If you share our values and enthusiasm for building a great culture and product, you will find a home at Fieldguide.
About The Role
Fieldguide is an AI-native platform built for audit, advisory, and assurance workflows. Our customers are sophisticated audit and accounting firms operating in highly regulated environments, where data confidentiality, professional liability, and regulatory exposure are central to how they evaluate every vendor. We are at a Series C inflection point—growing revenue, headcount, and commercial complexity simultaneously—and hiring our first in-house Senior Counsel to own the legal function end-to-end.
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. The right person is commercially oriented, technically fluent in AI and SaaS contracts, and genuinely excited to build rather than inherit. This role is built for a legal professional who wants to own outcomes, not just advise on them.
What You'll Do
- 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
- 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
Fieldguide is a values-based company. Our values are:
- Fearless - Inspire & break down seemingly impossible walls.
- Fast - Launch fast with excellence, iterate to perfection.
- Lovable - Deliver happiness & 11 star experiences.
- Owners - Execute & run the business with ownership.
- Win-win - Create mutual value & earn trust for life.
- Inclusive - Scale the best ideas with inclusive teams.
- Competitive compensation packages with meaningful ownership
- Flexible PTO
- 401k
- Wellness benefits
- Technology & Work from Home reimbursement
- Flexible work schedules
Salary : $200,000 - $260,000