Paralegal

Summary

Join KoBold Metals, a rapidly growing climate tech company, as a Paralegal and play an essential role in the legal department. You will create and maintain systems for efficient document access, respond to requests for information, support attorneys in negotiations, manage contracts and agreements, and assist with due diligence. This role involves collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, including scientists, engineers, and outside counsel globally. The ideal candidate possesses strong organizational, communication, and technological skills, a commitment to ethical standards, and a desire to contribute to a science-focused company. This full-time, exempt position offers a competitive salary, stock options, and remote work flexibility within the U.S. or Canada.

Requirements

• A proven record, in academic work and/or employment, of the highest quality work showing commitment, collaboration, and intelligence
• Strong desire to spend a minimum of 3 years working and learning at an exciting company in preparation for the next steps of a legal career
• Strong desire and ability to provide leverage, support, and partnership to company’s attorneys
• Strong desire and ability to develop relationships throughout the company and beyond
• Strong organizational, leadership, technology and communication skills with great attention to detail - someone who likes to organize and be organized
• Strong ability to learn new tools and solve new problems continuously
• Strong ability to be a leader in the setting a high standard of ethics
• An optimistic attitude toward work and people
• All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. or Canada

Responsibilities

• Play an essential role in the legal department at a climate tech company growing rapidly around the world
• Create and maintain systems to give company attorneys, executives, investors, and scientists well-organized access to and ability to track contracts, confidential information, due diligence materials, other documents, and legal obligations
• Respond rapidly to questions and requests from the legal, finance, tax and other departments for documents, information, and analysis relating to any of the company’s legal and business functions worldwide
• Support company attorneys and executives in negotiations with mining companies, tech companies, governments, universities, vendors, and individuals worldwide
• Work with the company attorneys to create and maintain the records, policies, and systems that position the company for our everyday operations and most significant transactions, including commercial contracts, corporate financings and joint ventures
• Manage form agreements and draft simple contracts based on templates, including NDAs and vendor agreements
• Review highly confidential and important due diligence materials for potential transactions and manage confidential data rooms
• Assist with operationalizing and refining workflows within the legal department
• Engage with and support the company’s outside counsel around the world (U.S., Finland, Canada, Australia, DRC, Zambia, Namibia) to complete administrative work within the company, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in outside counsel expense
• Work with internal stakeholders, inventors, and outside counsel on the company’s patent prosecution by assisting with patent filings, maintaining intellectual property records, and tracking deadlines
• Work closely with scientists and engineers at the company to ensure compliance with confidentiality and data protection obligations
• Engage directly with staff at the company’s most important business partners to build relationships, resolve problems, and advance our business
• Provide leverage and support to the attorneys so that they are more effective at advancing the company’s priorities
• Work on whatever needs to be done

Preferred Qualifications

• Interest in working in a science-based company where most colleagues are scientists and science is the focus of many company meetings and documents
• Interest in working in a global company, collaborating among teammates across many time zones and continents while learning many foreign legal systems and business environments
• Interest in learning and supporting many functions of a corporate legal team, ranging from transactions, compliance, IP/privacy, entity maintenance, and more

Benefits

• Salary range: $65,000 - $95,000 plus stock options
• Location: Remote, anywhere in the U.S. or Canada