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# Associate Corporate Counsel at Paraform

- **Company:** Paraform
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $200k–$240k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/paraform/c58358e2-3a8d-4ae5-be9f-e0c89f82f54a

## Job description

About The Role:

We're looking for a highly pragmatic, business-minded Associate Corporate Counsel to join Paraform's growing team and serve as our first Legal hire. You'll partner with teams across the company, helping us navigate the increasingly complex legal questions that come with scaling a high-growth technology company and marketplace.

This is a broad, hands-on role. You'll move between negotiating commercial agreements, advising on marketplace and employment issues, partnering with Product on new features, supporting corporate matters, and helping build the legal processes and infrastructure that allow the business to scale.

We're looking for someone comfortable operating with ambiguity, who can balance risk with business needs, exercise strong judgment, and help find practical paths forward.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Commercial: Draft, review, and negotiate customer, vendor, partnership, and other commercial agreements; help develop scalable contracting processes and templates.
- Product & Marketplace: Partner with Product and Operations on new products, marketplace policies, recruiter/customer relationships, and evolving legal and regulatory questions.
- Employment: Support the People team on employment matters, including performance management, terminations, compensation, policies, and employee relations.
- Corporate: Support financings, equity matters, corporate governance, board matters, and other strategic transactions.
- Privacy & Compliance: Support practical privacy, data protection, security, and broader compliance programs as Paraform scales.
- Legal Operations: Help build repeatable legal processes, templates, playbooks, and systems that allow the company to move faster without introducing unnecessary risk.
- Business Partnership: Translate complex legal issues into clear, practical guidance and recommendations for stakeholders across the company.

## REQUIRED

- Active membership in the California Bar, or active membership in another U.S. jurisdiction with eligibility and willingness to register as California Registered In-House Counsel.
- 4+ years of relevant legal experience, including experience advising technology or high-growth companies.
- Experience advising marketplace, platform, or recruiting/staffing businesses, including legal and regulatory issues related to marketplace operations, worker classification, and customer/provider relationships.
- Strong commercial experience, including drafting and negotiating customer, vendor, partnership, and other business agreements.
- Ability to work across a broad range of legal matters, including corporate, commercial, employment, product, privacy, and emerging issues.
- Strong business judgment with the ability to assess risk and provide practical, actionable guidance.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and helping build processes from 0→1.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

## PREFERRED

- Combination of law firm and in-house experience, particularly at a startup or high-growth technology company.
- Experience with employment law, including performance management, terminations, compensation, policies, and employee relations.
- Experience partnering with Product and Engineering on privacy, data protection, AI, and product counseling.
- Experience supporting financings, equity, corporate governance, board matters, or M&A.
- Experience helping build legal infrastructure, including templates, playbooks, contracting workflows, and compliance programs.
- Experience managing outside counsel to get to the right outcomes in a cost-effective manner.
- Experience using & experimenting with AI tools in daily workflows.

## ABOUT PARAFORM:

Paraform is a marketplace modernizing one of the largest and most fragmented markets in the world: hiring. We partner with industry leaders like Decagon, Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, and Hightouch to hire world-class talent, and are growing quickly - 8×-ing revenue last year.

Paraform is the first end-to-end AI recruiting marketplace that connects companies with thousands of specialized recruiters and AI agents that work together to fill roles faster and more accurately.

Our mission is to make hiring fast, reliable, and scalable for every company in the world.

At Paraform, we believe recruiting works best when the right people are working on the right problems, combining human judgment with AI that truly understands hiring. That’s why we’re building a new foundation for how companies hire, bringing together specialized recruiters and modern AI tools.

We treat recruiters like entrepreneurs, not vendors – and we’re building the financial, operational, and technical infrastructure that powers their success.

We are backed by the best investors and technology leaders: Scale, Felicis, A*, BOND, Liquid 2, DST Global, the founders of YouTube, Instacart, Canva, and more.

## About Paraform

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Paraform is an Agentic Hiring Platform where expert recruiters and custom AI agents collaborate to help companies fill critical roles faster and more accurately.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B – $65M total funding)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, CA, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: John and Jeff (co-founders; full names not publicly disclosed)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Internet Marketplace Platforms, Talent Acquisition, HR Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – high-growth startups to category-leading enterprises (e.g., Palantir, Rippling, Abridge, Decagon, Cognition, Thomson Reuters); also serves SMB and mid-market companies
- **Mission**: “Building the talent infrastructure of the 22nd century” – making hiring exceptional talent as easy as pressing a button.

## Products & Services
- **Agentic Hiring Platform**: Combines a marketplace of specialized expert recruiters with proprietary AI agents that learn from hiring outcomes to surface and match the best candidates. Includes tools for sourcing, candidate matching, CRM, notetaking, scheduling, and back-office support.
- **Recruiter Marketplace**: Connects companies with vetted recruiters who have deep domain networks; recruiters get access to high-quality clients, AI tools, and business development support.
- **AI Recruiting Agents**: Custom AI agents that act on matching intelligence – running workflows, surfacing candidates, and automating follow-ups.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Total Funding**: $65M (Series B announced March 2026)
- **Key Metrics**: 1,000+ customer companies; 90 team members; recruiters on the platform have earned over $50M to date; average candidate hired earns ~$260K/year (total comp often $300K–$400K).
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Felicis, A* Capital, Liquid 2 Ventures; angel investors include CTO of Palantir, co-founders of Canva and YouTube, COO of Stripe, President of Shopify, CPO of Uber.
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid customer growth (1,000+ companies), high recruiter earnings (some exceed $300K/month, $1M+/year), expansion into verticals with acute talent scarcity.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data Moat**: Proprietary data on hiring outcomes that compounds with every placement – creating signals no other platform has.
- **Human + AI Synergy**: AI agents handle repetitive tasks and pattern matching, while expert recruiters provide contextual insight (e.g., motivation, culture fit) that AI cannot easily infer.
- **Network Effects**: More recruiters attract more companies, which generate more data and better matches, reinforcing the platform’s intelligence.
- **Speed**: Companies typically meet their eventual hire within ~12 days, significantly faster than traditional processes.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scale the marketplace**: Grow both customer and recruiter bases rapidly.
- **Deepen AI capabilities**: Invest in models that learn from real hiring outcomes and expand the agentic platform.
- **Vertical expansion**: Target talent-scarce verticals (engineering, GTM, finance, legal) and build infrastructure for modern, outcome-driven hiring.

## Why Work Here
- **Compensation & Equity**: Competitive salaries (e.g., Software Engineer $140K–$290K, Applied ML Engineer $190K–$240K, Product Manager $150K–$250K) plus meaningful equity.
- **Benefits**: 100% healthcare coverage (medical, dental, vision) with dependent plans; 401k; flexible PTO; daily catered meals by an in-house chef; Bay Club gym membership; Ramp corporate card; annual company offsites (e.g., Hawaii, Tokyo, Sydney, New York).
- **Office Policy**: In-person at San Francisco headquarters; roles listed as “San Francisco” with no explicit remote option.
- **Culture**: “We hire the best and treat them accordingly” – ownership mindset, high autonomy, focus on impact.

## Sources
1. [paraform.com/about](https://www.paraform.com/about)
2. [paraform.com/careers](https://www.paraform.com/careers)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/paraformxyz)
4. [paraform.com/blog/series-b](https://www.paraform.com/blog/series-b)
5. [paraform.com](https://www.paraform.com/)

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