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title: 'Head of Legal at Pulley'
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# Head of Legal at Pulley

- **Company:** Pulley
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $220k–$300k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-06
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/withpulley/717df72e-e10b-4f6b-bfbe-bb85cf057f99

## Job description

## About Pulley

Pulley helps the country’s top architects, builders, and retailers speed up every project in their portfolio. With AI-powered permitting intelligence and expert guidance, we eliminate costly delays and bring predictability across the full lifecycle of commercial projects.

Today, permitting is the slowest, most uncertain part of building, spread across 19,000+ jurisdictions with different rules, timelines, and surprises. Pulley gives project teams the clarity and predictability they need to move from planning to opening without delays.

We support rollout programs for brands like J.Crew, Solidcore, and Hibbett Sports, as well as major data center buildouts, EV charging networks, and other commercial projects. Our platform dramatically reduces approval timelines, improves forecasting accuracy, and removes thousands of hours of manual work from design and construction teams.

Founded in 2021, Pulley combines deep permitting expertise with purpose-built AI from people who have created products used by millions. We’re backed by CRV, Susa Ventures, Fifth Wall, and leaders from Plaid, Segment, ServiceTitan, and Procore.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

As Pulley's first Head of Legal, you'll build and own our commercial legal function, taking on the legal and contract work our team has been absorbing as we've grown, and putting real infrastructure behind it.

In this role, you will:

- Build the legal processes, templates, and playbooks Pulley needs as it scales; much of this doesn't exist yet, so you'll be creating it.
- Advise leadership on corporate legal matters and flag risk before it becomes a problem.
- Partner closely with co-founders and cross functional leaders to help shape new products and service lines, weighing in early on legal and strategic considerations as we expand into new markets.
- Manage relationships with outside counsel for specialized needs outside your core focus (e.g., litigation, M&A, IP).
- Act as a trusted legal partner to teams across the company, translating legal complexity into clear, actionable guidance.
- Own end-to-end drafting, review, and negotiation of customer, vendor, and partner contracts.
- Partner closely with Sales and Revenue teams to structure deals and unblock negotiations.

## WHO YOU ARE

- You're commercially minded: you see your role as helping the business move faster, not just minimizing risk.
- You're comfortable being the first legal hire and building a function from scratch, without a playbook handed to you.
- You default to pragmatic, business-friendly solutions over rigid process.
- You communicate clearly with non-lawyers and build trust quickly across functions.
- You're energized by high ownership and ambiguity in a fast-moving startup environment.

## NEED TO HAVE

- 6–9 years of experience in corporate/commercial legal work, ideally with a mixture of experience at a top startup-focused law firm with experience working in-house.
- Background in general corporate law, tech transactions, and commercial contracts, ideally supporting emerging companies, venture-backed startups, or growth-stage companies.
- Strong track record in commercial contracting: drafting and negotiating customer, vendor, and partner agreements.
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar admission.
- Excellent judgment on when to solve something yourself versus loop in outside counsel.
- Comfort operating as a generalist, not a narrow specialist.

## NICE TO HAVE

- Prior in-house experience at a startup or growth-stage technology company.
- Experience supporting corporate governance or financing-related work.
- Exposure to the construction, real estate, or proptech industries.

## About Pulley

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Pulley makes permitting fast and predictable for commercial project teams, turning fragmented regulation into clear paths to approval.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, United States
- **Founded**: Year not publicly disclosed (seed funding raised in June 2022)
- **Founders**: Charlie Jacobson (CEO), Andreas Rotenberg (COO)

## Core Business
- **Industry**: Construction technology / Permitting software
- **Target Customers**: B2B – commercial construction project teams (owners, developers, architects, GCs)
- **Mission**: Help project teams break ground faster by compressing permitting from months to minutes.

## Products & Services
- **[Pulley Permitting Platform]**: SaaS platform that unites project stakeholders for submitting, tracking, and responding to permit comments, verifying requirements across 19,000+ jurisdictions, and securing approvals faster. Includes AI-powered requirement verification and expert support.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total Funding $4.4M (Seed round of $4.4M in June 2022 led by Susa Ventures; Series A led by CRV and Susa Ventures) – powers more than $12 billion in construction across all 50 states
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Susa Ventures, CRV; Customers include AutoZone, Starbucks, Prologis, JLL Design
- **Growth Signals**: 86 employees (+70% YoY), 20 active job postings, expanding into new states (NY, TX, CA, IL, etc.), and a 43.3% increase in LinkedIn followers over the past year.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep jurisdictional knowledge**: Platform covers 19,000+ unique jurisdictions and learns from every project.
- **AI + human expertise**: Combines AI that adapts to local codes with a team of permitting experts.
- **Speed**: Aims to reduce permitting time from months to days – directly addresses a market where 80% of construction time is spent before breaking ground.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the platform across more U.S. jurisdictions.
- Continue hiring across engineering, product, permitting operations, and sales to support rapid growth.
- Build the infrastructure to make permitting a seamless, automated process for commercial projects.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values of Quick (bias to action, urgency), Kind (empathy and honest feedback), Crafty (quality and clever problem-solving). Autonomy, context, and trust are emphasized.
- **Work Model**: Hybrid – in-person optional in San Francisco and New York offices; remote-friendly.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary, meaningful equity, comprehensive health/dental/vision, flexible PTO, 401(k).
- **Team**: Small, focused team (~86 people) where individual contributions are visible; cross-functional collaboration with engineers, permitting experts, and operators.

## Sources
1. [withpulley.com/company](https://www.withpulley.com/company)
2. [withpulley.com/careers](https://www.withpulley.com/careers)
3. [builtin.com/company/pulley-withpulleycom](https://builtin.com/company/pulley-withpulleycom)
4. [linkedin.com/company/pulley-permitting](https://www.linkedin.com/company/pulley-permitting)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/withpulley](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/withpulley)

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