In-house Legal Counsel

About Revive Real Estate

Revive is a venture-backed proptech company built on the belief that the future starts at home. While most people see renovation as a project, we built it as a path to real wealth for homeowners. By connecting renovation with financing and selling, we create new ways to buy, sell, and unlock value, giving homeowners real control over their biggest asset.

At Revive, ownership is real and impact is visible. We move fast, challenge broken systems, and hold a high bar for clarity and outcomes. If you want to work on problems that matter and see your work translate into real-world change, this is where you will do your best work.

What we offer

• Competitive salary & benefits in a high-growth, VC-backed company
• Real ownership, clear accountability, and the authority to make decisions that matter
• Direct working relationships with Revive’s founders and senior leaders on initiatives that shape how the company grows
• The opportunity to design and build in a company where craft, clarity, and outcomes are valued
• A fast-moving environment where strong work leads to more responsibility and more opportunity
• Flexibility in how and where you work, paired with high expectations for impact
• A culture that values contribution, judgment, and follow-through over titles or tenure
  
  

Revive is an equal opportunity employer. We hire based on contribution, capability, and alignment with how we work.

Why this role exists

Revive is scaling across real estate, renovation, financing-adjacent programs, contractor relationships, technology, and multiple operating entities. As the business grows, legal strategy cannot be reactive. We need an in-house legal leader who can help structure the company for scale, reduce liability, strengthen contracts, manage risk, and protect Revive across every part of the business.

This role exists to bring legal judgment closer to the business. You will help Revive build the right entity structures, contract frameworks, compliance processes, dispute strategies, and operational protections needed to grow responsibly. This is a high-impact role for someone who understands real estate, business operations, construction risk, corporate governance, and litigation exposure—and wants to build the legal foundation of a fast-growing company.

What You Will Do

• Advise leadership on legal risk across real estate, construction, corporate, employment, vendor, technology, and operational matters
• Support entity structuring, subsidiary governance, intercompany arrangements, and liability separation across Revive’s business lines
• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, vendor agreements, contractor agreements, referral agreements, real estate-related agreements, and operating documents
• Strengthen Revive’s contract templates to improve enforceability, reduce ambiguity, and protect against claims
• Partner with leadership to identify legal risk in new products, programs, partnerships, and business models
• Support dispute prevention and dispute resolution, including demand letters, escalations, settlement strategy, and litigation coordination
• Manage outside counsel efficiently, including scope, cost, priorities, and deliverables
• Advise on real estate transaction risk, construction-related issues, contractor obligations, and customer-facing documentation
• Support corporate governance, board materials, entity maintenance, approvals, consents, and internal legal records
• Help build scalable legal processes, playbooks, templates, and compliance workflows
• Review marketing, sales, and customer communications for legal and regulatory risk
• Partner with HR and leadership on employment-related legal issues, offer letters, policies, compensation plans, and employee documentation
• Maintain a practical, business-minded legal function that protects Revive without slowing the company down
  
  

Who You Are

• A business-minded attorney who can identify risk without becoming a blocker
• Comfortable operating across multiple legal areas rather than one narrow specialty
• Strong judgment in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Direct, clear, and practical in communication
• Able to translate legal issues into business decisions leadership can act on
• Detail-oriented but commercially practical
• Comfortable building legal systems, templates, and processes from the ground up
• Protective of the company while understanding the pace of a growth-stage business
  
  

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school
• Active license to practice law in California, or ability to register as in-house counsel in California
• 5 years of legal experience, preferably with in-house, real estate, corporate, construction, litigation, or transactional exposure
• Experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts
• Working knowledge of corporate governance, entity structuring, and liability management
• Experience managing disputes, litigation strategy, or outside counsel
• Real estate, construction, proptech, fintech, or startup experience preferred
  
  

The Pay Range For This Role Is

125,000 - 225,000 USD per year(Irvine, CA)