--- title: 'Director of Legal and Compliance at Synquery' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/director-of-legal-and-compliance-synquery-nashville-acpm2pbcgtyy' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-11' --- # Director of Legal and Compliance at Synquery - **Company:** Synquery - **Location:** Nashville - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-08-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-11 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/synquery/9daff653-9dff-4f16-a391-02e99f9c3774 ## Job description Director of Legal & Compliance Company: Synquery Location: Nashville, TN (on-site) Reports To: Chief Executive Officer Employment Type: Full-Time ## About Synquery Synquery is an early-stage expert network company using AI to transform how businesses access expertise at scale. We are a fast-growing, entrepreneurial company building a next generation expert network. We're looking for a hands-on legal leader who wants to help shape not just our compliance posture, but how the company operates and grows. The Opportunity Synquery is seeking a Director of Legal & Compliance to build and lead the company's legal and compliance function. This is a rare opportunity for an entrepreneurial-minded lawyer to join a company at a formative stage, working directly with the CEO to establish the frameworks, policies, and agreements that will govern how Synquery operates as it scales. You will wear multiple hats — advisor, negotiator, program-builder, and strategic partner to leadership — in an environment where your decisions will have immediate impact. ## What You'll Do - Lead compliance strategy: Design, implement, and manage comprehensive compliance programs covering Synquery's internal personnel as well as the network of experts who engage with the platform. - Build the compliance infrastructure: Establish policies, training, and monitoring processes to ensure adherence to relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards (e.g., expert network compliance norms, confidentiality and information barriers, data privacy). - Negotiate key agreements: Draft, review, and negotiate client agreements, partner agreements, expert agreements, vendor contracts, and other core business documents. - Manage legal risk: Identify, assess, and mitigate legal and regulatory risks across the business, including those specific to AI-enabled products and services. - Advise leadership: Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO and broader leadership team on legal, regulatory, and compliance matters affecting business strategy and operations. - Shape company policy: Help define internal governance practices, employment policies, and operational procedures as the company scales. - Manage outside counsel: Engage and coordinate with external law firms on specialized matters as needed, while keeping day-to-day legal work in-house. - Support corporate matters: Assist with corporate governance, entity management, and other general corporate legal needs as they arise. ## What You'll Bring - J.D.: from an accredited law school; active bar membership in good standing. - 3+ years: of experience as a corporate lawyer or in-house counsel, ideally with exposure to contract negotiation and compliance programs. - Strong drafting and negotiation skills across commercial agreements (client, partner, and vendor contracts). - Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to regulated information services, data privacy, or expert networks (preferred, not required). - A builder's mindset — comfortable creating structure and process. - Sound judgment and the ability to balance legal risk with business pragmatism in a fast-moving environment. - Excellent communication skills and the confidence to advise senior leadership directly. - Self-starter energy: this role has significant autonomy and will require someone who is comfortable defining their own scope as the company's needs evolve. ## Why Join Synquery - Direct line to the CEO and a real seat at the table in shaping company strategy. - The chance to build a legal and compliance function. - Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and growth potential at an early-stage company positioned in a large and expanding market. - A collaborative, fast-paced culture where impact is immediate and visible. Note: This role can be flexible between part-time and full-time, structured around the scope of responsibilities the candidate takes on. Synquery is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. ## About Synquery ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Synquery is an AI-powered expert network platform that connects companies with experienced professionals for instant, asynchronous insights, replacing traditional weeks-long research processes with AI-driven matching, scheduling, interviewing, and analysis. - **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage) - **Headquarters**: Nashville, Tennessee, United States - **Founded**: 2024 - **Founders**: Bren Marschner (CEO) and Gerard Gharios (Co-Founder & CPO) ## Core Business - Primary industry/industries: Information Services, Expert Networks, AI-powered Research - Target customers: B2B — consulting firms, investment firms, corporate strategy teams, and any organization needing rapid access to deep human expertise - Mission or purpose statement: "We believe expert knowledge shouldn't take a week to access. Synquery is an AI-powered expert network that matches companies with experienced professionals, instantly and asynchronously." ## Products & Services - **Synquery Platform**: An AI-native platform that fully automates the expert insight lifecycle. Clients submit a research question, and AI agents handle 100% of the work—finding experts, vetting them, scheduling and conducting autonomous interviews, and delivering synthesized insights with full transcripts. No time required from the client’s team. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $7.0M across two rounds - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Afore Capital, Audacious Ventures (led the Seed round), Caesar Ventures - **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 157.1% YoY to 16 employees; LinkedIn followers grew 420.1% year-over-year to 1,314; the company has expanded to offices in Nashville (HQ) and Boston, with team presence in Brazil and France. ## Competitive Advantages - **Full AI Autonomy**: Unlike traditional expert networks that rely on human coordinators, Synquery's AI agents handle the entire workflow end-to-end, reducing insight delivery from 2-3 weeks to 2-3 days. - **Cost Efficiency**: Eliminates human coordination overhead, allowing clients to scale research without scaling budget. - **Deeper Analysis**: AI agents probe deeper than typical interviews, ask follow-ups humans might miss, and identify patterns across conversations to transform findings. - **Zero Client Effort**: Clients submit a question and receive ready-to-use insights with no coordination or follow-up required. ## Strategic Focus - Scaling the platform to serve more enterprise clients and expand the expert panel - Continuing to improve AI matching quality and interview depth - Building a global network of experts across industries and geographies - Growing the team across engineering, product, and go-to-market functions ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Mission-driven startup focused on "transforming how businesses access expertise" with values around quality, ethics first, innovation, continued learning, sharing, and diversity. - **Work Policy**: In-office and hybrid options available across two offices — Nashville, TN (HQ) and Boston, MA. Most roles appear to require on-site presence, with typical time on-site listed as "None" (likely flexible but office-centric). - **Team & Growth**: Small, fast-growing team (16 people) with significant ownership and impact potential. The company is in a high-growth phase with strong investor backing. - **Tech Stack**: Modern infrastructure including PostgreSQL, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, and React — appealing for engineers who want to work on AI-native products. - **Founding Team**: Led by experienced founders from consulting and expert network backgrounds (BCG, BCG X) who deeply understand the problem they're solving. ## Sources 1. [synquery.ai](https://www.synquery.ai/) 2. [synquery.ai/about-us](https://www.synquery.ai/about-us) 3. [linkedin.com/company/synquery](https://www.linkedin.com/company/synquery) 4. [builtin.com/company/synquery](https://builtin.com/company/synquery) 5. 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