Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture.
Superhuman team members in this role must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City, and they must be able to collaborate in person 2 days a week.
About Superhuman
Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Superhuman Docs's collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com and about our values here.
The Opportunity
To achieve our ambitious and exciting goals, we’re looking for a Senior Counsel, M&A to join the Superhuman Legal team to lead the structuring, negotiation, and execution of complex corporate M&A transactions, including overseeing legal due diligence, post-closing integration, and also provide support on general corporate transactions, governance, and investor relations matters.
Reporting directly to Superhuman’s Head of Corporate Legal, this role will take primary ownership of all M&A and strategic transaction work and will partner closely with our Executive, Corporate Development, Finance, and People teams to develop strong, extensible and repeatable practices to help move the business forward.
As a core member and contributor on the Legal team, this person will also help develop and bolster the culture of the Legal team by exemplifying care for their craft, care for others, and a commitment to finding collaborative solutions to complex questions.
As Senior Counsel, M&A, you will leverage your deep transactional experience and expertise to support and accelerate Superhuman’s next era of growth. You will take on critical, high-profile M&A projects with accuracy, creativity, and ownership. You will use your background, skill, and creativity to efficiently use outside counsel, build repeatable cross-functional processes, build trust across the legal team and the business all with an eye toward achieving our strategic acquisition goals.
In this role, you will:
- Collaborate cross-functionally across the company at every level on M&A, strategic transactions, and investor-related matters.
- Structure, conduct, and manage legal due diligence, engaging internal and external partners when necessary to ensure alignment
- Draft, negotiate, socialize, and review transaction documents
- Lead deal execution logistics, including managing post-closing integration and compliance efforts
- Support, as a secondary responsibility, corporate governance matters, including corporate entity management, new entity development and implementation, equity program strategic planning, insurance, and board-related matters
- Develop strategies for handling legal issues in creative ways and build processes for scaling flexible solutions that address risk
- Advise internal stakeholders, providing clear, concise, and thorough guidance on legal risks, obligations, and mitigations
Qualifications
- Brings a proven background (10+ years) in leading mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, due diligence, and integration activities, with training at a top-tier law firm and solid in-house experience; corporate governance and fundraising experience a plus
- Has experience supporting finance (including corporate development, capital structures and fundraising) and investor relations at a high-growth and innovative technology company and a track record of driving alignment and delivering results on complex, cross-functional projects involving various stakeholders.
- Demonstrates excellent time management skills to juggle multiple time-sensitive projects simultaneously in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.
- Is comfortable independently owning end-to-end deal processes and working with cross-functional teams and advising senior leaders on risk tolerance and balancing to drive the business forward.
- Communicates clearly and empathetically both face-to-face and in writing.
- Holds a JD and has been admitted to the bar, with a license to practice law in at least one US state.
Compensation and Benefits
Superhuman offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package encompassing the following and more:
- Excellent health care (including a wide range of medical, dental, vision, mental health, and fertility benefits)
- Disability and life insurance options
- 401(k) and RRSP matching
- Paid parental leave
- 20 days of paid time off per year, 12 days of paid holidays per year, two floating holidays per year, and flexible sick time
- Generous stipends (including those for caregiving, pet care, wellness, your home office, and more)
- Annual professional development budget and opportunities
Superhuman takes a market-based approach to compensation, so base pay may vary by location. Our US locations are categorized into two compensation zones based on proximity to our hub locations.
Base pay may vary considerably depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The expected salary ranges for this position are outlined by compensation zone and may be modified in the future.
We encourage you to apply
At Superhuman, we value our differences, and we encourage all to apply—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, political belief, or any other characteristic protected by law. Superhuman is an equal opportunity employer and a participant in the US federal E-Verify program (US). We also abide by the Employment Equity Act (Canada).