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# Legal Counsel - San Francisco at Plaud

- **Company:** [Plaud](https://feeny.ai/companies/plaud)
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/plaud/b45f6299-bdc4-4a17-a980-bb0cfed39f03

## Job description

About Plaud Inc. Plaud is building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence, elevate productivity and performance, loved by over 2,500,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud captures, structures, and compounds the intelligence generated in conversations — so humans can think better, decide faster, and execute with clarity.

Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human–AI intelligence through a hardware–software combination. With full ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2, GDPR, EN18031, and HIPAA compliances, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection.

To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai and follow along on [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/plaud_official/), [X](https://twitter.com/PLAUDAI), [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/plaudai), [Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/plaudai/?viewAsMember=true), and [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@PLAUDAI)

## Why You Should Join Us

Plaud is building the next generation intelligence infrastructure and interfaces to capture, extract, and utilize intelligence from what people say, hear, see, and think.

- Plaud is a bootstrapped, skyrocketing, profitable company with a $250M revenue run rate achieved in just three years.
- Define the next-gen paradigm for human-AI interaction.
- Gain exposure to cutting-edge AI for Pro tools and play a direct role in our global expansion.
- Work with passionate teammates who value innovation, collaboration, and customer success.
- Grow your career in a culture that champions continuous learning and fast career development.
- Market-competitive compensation, global exposure, and a vibrant, creativity-fueled work atmosphere.

## What you will do

- Own end-to-end review, drafting, and negotiation of commercial contracts for the U.S. and EU markets (including service agreements, vendor and customer contracts, NDAs, and partnership agreements) serving as the primary legal point of contact for business stakeholders in the Americas and Europe.
- Deliver timely, practical legal advice and risk assessments to commercial, product, and operations teams, translating legal complexity into clear, business-focused recommendations that balance risk against commercial goals.
- Manage dispute resolution matters across U.S. and EU jurisdictions, including pre-litigation assessment, evidence gathering, settlement negotiations, and day-to-day oversight of outside counsel on disputes and IP matters.
- Benchmark Plaud’s commercial contract standards and legal processes against industry best practices, identify gaps, and drive continuous improvement in templates, review turnaround, and risk coverage.
- Work effectively across time zones, including availability in the evenings as needed, to ensure smooth handoffs with the Asia-based legal team and keep cross-border matters moving without delay.

## Qualifications

- 3–5 years of experience in a U.S. based law firm and/or in an in-house legal role, with demonstrated experience on U.S. and cross-border commercial matters.
- Proven track record independently drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial contracts (service agreements, vendor/customer contracts, NDAs, partnership agreements) through to signature.
- Hands-on experience handling or supporting dispute resolution matters: pre-litigation assessment, evidence gathering, settlement discussions, and coordination with outside litigation or IP counsel.
- Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction (California bar preferred)
- Demonstrated ability to work independently in a fast-paced, cross-border environment, owning matters end-to-end with minimal oversight and coordinating across stakeholders in the U.S., EU, and Asia.
- Comfortable using AI-assisted legal tools (contract review platforms, legal research tools, LLM-based drafting assistants) to work efficiently without sacrificing accuracy
- Strong business communication skills: able to deliver a one-paragraph legal opinion that a non-lawyer business lead can act on immediately, and to push back on unreasonable risk without holding up deals.
- Comfortable owning matters across a 12+ hour time difference, proactively flagging blockers and following through without needing to be chased.

## Preferred Qualifications

- California bar admission and prior experience advising technology, SaaS, AI, hardware, or cross-border consumer products companies on U.S. and EU commercial matters.
- Experience with intellectual property matters (patents, trademarks, trade secrets) and/or cross-border regulatory compliance (outside of data privacy/compliance) in a technology or hardware context.
- Prior in-house experience at a U.S.-listed or globally operating technology company, or at a Chinese company with significant U.S./EU operations, with demonstrated ability to bridge common-law and civil-law legal systems
- Working-level speaking proficiency in Mandarin

## What we offer

- Founding Team: Opportunity to join the founding team of this new initiative, with meaningful ownership and impact on a fast-growing startup.
- Competitive Compensation: $135K-$200K base salary+performance bonus+Equity.
- Comprehensive Benefits: Top-tier healthcare for employees and dependents, including dental and vision, and a generous employer subsidy.
- Retirement Planning: 401(k) plan for full time employees with company matching.
- Paid Time Off: Unlimited PTO, plus 13 paid holidays.
- New Parent Leave: 12 weeks of paid time off to spend time with your new family, regardless of gender.
- Hybrid Office: Minimum of 3x in office per week.
- Gear: New hires are equipped with their choice of new top-of-the-line laptops and workstation setups.
- Perks: Best office equipment. Annual offsites. Free office drinks and snacks. Commuter Benefits.

Plaud is and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics..

## About Plaud

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Plaud builds an AI-powered hardware and software note-taking platform that automatically records, transcribes, and summarizes conversations to help professionals stay present and productive.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed on the website or in standard search results

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: AI-powered productivity software and consumer hardware
- Target customers: B2C (professionals, knowledge workers, medical practitioners) and B2B (teams and enterprises)
- Mission or purpose statement: "Amplify human intelligence" – building the next-generation intelligence infrastructure to capture, extract, and utilize what you say, hear, see, and think.

## Products & Services
- **Plaud Note (Hardware)**: An AI note-taking device that records conversations and uses AI to generate transcripts, summaries, action items, and key points. Award-winning hardware design.
- **Plaud App (Software)**: Companion app for transcription (112 languages), AI-powered summaries ("Plaud Intelligence"), search ("Ask Plaud"), and export/sharing/integration. Available on mobile and web.
- **Plaud Cloud**: Encrypted private cloud sync for cross-device access, with user-controlled data storage (on-device or cloud).
- **Subscription Plans**: Free tier (1,200 mins/mo transcription), Pro Plan ($99.99/year), Unlimited Plan ($239.99/year – unlimited transcription).

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Over 2,000,000 users worldwide since 2023 (as of mid-2026); used in over 170 countries
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed. Featured in major media outlets (unspecified on site).
- **Growth Signals**: Rapid user growth to 2M+ in ~3 years; expansion from a single product to a suite with multiple subscription tiers; global office presence (San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Seattle, Beijing); compliance with ISO27001, ISO27701, GDPR, SOC 2, HIPAA, and EN 18031 – signaling enterprise readiness and expansion.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hardware-Software Integration**: A dedicated hardware device for note-taking (unlike pure software competitors like Otter.ai or Fireflies.ai), enabling frictionless, ambient capture.
- **Privacy-First Architecture**: Data is never sold or used to train AI models; encryption in transit and at rest; user controls what syncs; multiple global security certifications (SOC 2, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO).
- **Multilingual & Multimodal**: Transcribes in 112 languages and supports multimodal input (voice, potentially more).
- **Strong Mission & Brand**: Positioned as "World's No.1 AI Note-taking Brand" with a clear philosophy around "Conversation as Intelligence."

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the user base**: Targeting 50 million professionals by 2030.
- **Enterprise & Healthcare Expansion**: HIPAA compliance and healthcare-specific messaging ("complete charts instantly") indicate a push into medical and enterprise verticals.
- **Global Office Build-out**: Establishing engineering, product, and go-to-market teams across US, Asia, and Europe.
- **Product Depth**: Moving beyond transcription to become an "intelligence infrastructure" that captures, extracts, and utilizes all forms of human communication.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-Driven**: The company's philosophy ("Amplify Human Intelligence") is central to its culture, and employees are likely working on a product that directly impacts how millions of professionals work.
- **Growth Stage**: Rapidly scaling from 2M to a target of 50M users, offering significant career growth opportunities.
- **Global & Remote-Friendly**: Offices in San Francisco, Singapore, Tokyo, Shenzhen, Seattle, and Beijing – suggests a distributed, cross-cultural work environment.
- **Cutting-Edge Tech**: Working on the frontier of AI (LLMs, speech recognition, hardware-software integration) with a "Pursue SOTA" (State of the Art) value.
- **Values-Driven Culture**: Listed values include "Human First," "Act from first principles," "Dare to change," "Use AI to its fullest," and "Let others thrive."
- **Perks**: One-year warranty on hardware, lifetime customer support, and a focus on data security (ISO/SOC/HIPAA compliance) indicates a mature engineering and operations culture.

## Sources
1. [Plaud.ai - Homepage](https://www.plaud.ai/)
2. [Plaud.ai - About Us](https://www.plaud.ai/pages/about-us)
3. [Plaud.ai - Our Story](https://www.plaud.ai/pages/our-story)
4. [Plaud - Careers Page](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Plaud)

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