Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
### Why this Role is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
General Counsel roles are still relatively rare in SaaS until a company reaches meaningful scale, and this one stands out because it sits at the intersection of subscription software and a heavily regulated cybersecurity domain. The remit signals a business where product delivery, customer trust, and legal posture are tightly coupled, with commercial contracting and privacy expectations shaped by real-world threat conditions.
From a SaaS career perspective, the role offers exposure to the legal mechanics that underpin durable recurring revenue: governance that supports board decision-making, repeatable contracting for customers and partners, and a disciplined approach to intellectual property. The emphasis on IPO readiness, financing, and M&A work also maps closely to the inflection points that define later-stage SaaS companies, making the experience broadly portable across high-growth software environments.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
Reports to: CEO
Location: Remote US
Compensation Range: $360,000 to $400,000 base plus bonus and equity
What We Do:
Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact.
Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers' protection.
Huntress now secures more than 5M endpoints and 11M identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other.
What You’ll Do:
As our General Counsel, you are a strategic enabler who balances fast company growth with sophisticated risk management. You will serve as a proactive business partner and advisor on complex corporate issues, moving far beyond basic legal review to offer creative deal-structuring strategies that protect our goals while mapping out calculated risks and clear guardrails. You will deliver critical guidance on corporate governance, intellectual property, and high-velocity operational matters, using deep quantitative risk analysis to show how legal decisions directly impact our valuation and long-term trajectory. Your work directly drives our corporate growth by ensuring our legal engine supports our team, customers, and partners seamlessly.
In this role, you will navigate the shadier corners of the security ecosystem, managing the unique risks of an organization that operates at the very edge of the cyber-threat landscape. You will architect our multi-year pathway to public company standards, establishing necessary corporate governance and compliance structures early while keeping our operations nimble. Whether preparing for a financing round, managing equity administration, or establishing localized frameworks for international expansion, you will maintain an ongoing state of readiness for major corporate milestones. You will protect our proprietary moat and defend us against litigation, all while ensuring the legal department operates as an automated, high-velocity engine that removes friction from our business.
Responsibilities:
- Guide the executive team and the Board of Directors with clear candor on governance best practices, fiduciary duties, and high-stakes business issues to ensure absolute transparency.
- Move past standard legal review to act as an outcome-obsessed business partner, utilizing quantitative risk analysis to tie legal strategies directly to company valuation and long-term trajectory.
- Navigate the complex cybersecurity legal landscape and regulatory changes with a warrior spirit, keeping us unassailable from a compliance standpoint while we operate at the edge of the cyber-threat environment.
- Drive continuous IPO readiness by maintaining pristine corporate histories, up-to-date summaries, and rigorous diligence materials so we remain fully prepared for public market entry, Series E, or M&A milestones at a moment's notice.
- Practice perfect imperfection by building the scalable legal frameworks necessary for a public company, implementing compliance and governance structures at the right level at the right time without over-engineering roadblocks.
- Manage and defend the organization against litigation, employment matters, supply chain vulnerabilities, and privacy concerns like GDPR and CCPA to protect our business operations.
- Demonstrate that you give a $h*t about our ecosystem by architecting an automated legal and compliance engine that handles high-velocity customer and partner agreements to drive excellent user experiences.
- Partner with outside counsel and internal stakeholders to manage the cap table, equity-related governance, and supporting documentation with accuracy and discipline.
- Partner closely with the Chief People and Administration Officer on equity strategy, including program design, governance, and alignment with talent, retention, and company growth objectives.
- Support and draft Board and committee materials, resolutions, and related governance documentation to enable clear decision-making and strong Board operations.
- Serve as Corporate Secretary, supporting Board and committee governance, maintaining formal records, and ensuring strong meeting cadence, resolutions, and follow-through.
- Assess and strengthen third-party and supply chain legal risk, including resilience, vendor exposure, and related compliance implications across the partner ecosystem
- Build and maintain scalable playbooks for international expansion, enabling Huntress to enter new markets with localized legal, employment, and compliance frameworks
- Lead legal diligence, transaction execution, and post-close integration support for acquisitions so the company can evaluate and absorb opportunities quickly and with minimized risk.
What You Bring To The Team:
- 10+ years of experience leading a corporate legal function, preferably as a General Counsel or Deputy General Counsel within a fast-growing technology or cybersecurity organization.
- Extensive experience advising a Board of Directors, managing equity administration, and leading the legal strategy for venture capital financing, M&A, or public market transition readiness.
- Deep knowledge of the cybersecurity legal landscape, including threat intelligence, data privacy regulations, and compliance frameworks.
- Proven track record of protecting intellectual property through global patent and trademark strategies.
- Experience building and scaling international employment and localized compliance frameworks to support rapid geographic expansion.
- Background creating automated legal operations or leveraging automation tools to handle high-velocity commercial contracts for a scaling partner network.
What We Offer:
- 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015
- Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans
- 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution
- Life and Disability insurance plans
- Stock options for all full-time employees
- One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office
- Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance
- $75 USD/month digital reimbursement
- Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth
Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are.
We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.
We do discriminate against hackers who try to exploit businesses of all sizes.
Accommodations:
If you require reasonable accommodation to complete this application, interview, or pre-employment testing or participate in the employee selection process, please direct your inquiries to accommodations@huntresslabs.com. Please note that non-accommodation requests to this inbox will not receive a response.
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