Doma Technology LLC offers solutions for lenders, real estate professionals, title agents, and homeowners that make closings vastly simpler and more efficient, reducing cost and increasing customer satisfaction.
Our Values- Obsessively Entrepreneurial - We encourage calculated risk-taking, and we know that some of our best learning happens by making mistakes along the way.
- People First - We communicate with honesty and respect to our customers, colleagues, and partners.
- Better Together - We believe diversity, equity and inclusion creates value through the differences in our backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives.
- Act with Integrity - We hold ourselves to the highest ethical standards in all of our business practices.
General Counsel
Job Duties:
- Serve as a trusted legal partner to the business, identifying and resolving legal issues, structuring third-party relationships, and helping teams move forward with a clear understanding of risk and tradeoffs.
- Research, interpret, and advise on state regulatory requirements affecting the title insurance and mortgage industries, developing clear, practical guidance in complex or unfamiliar areas.
- Support corporate development, financing, and other strategic transactions as they arise
- Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including agreements for both the delivery and procurement of products and services.
- Provide subject matter legal expertise on individual title matters, applying legal judgment to specific facts and circumstances to assess risk and determine practical paths forward.
- Partner with Compliance leadership on matters requiring legal interpretation or judgment, including regulatory interactions and complex risk questions.
- Manage the company's intellectual property portfolio
- Select and manage outside counsel relationships across practice areas
- Mentor and develop internal team members supporting contract review and other legal matters, helping build legal capability across the organization
Required Qualifications:
- J.D. and active bar admission
- Substantial experience advising businesses across commercial, regulatory, and general corporate matters, with a strong working knowledge of residential title and mortgage transactions.
- Experience operating as a broad, hands-on business lawyer in a fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment, with the range and judgment to work across disciplines, navigate unfamiliar questions, and advise the business beyond a narrow legal specialty.
- Demonstrated judgment in assessing risk and navigating ambiguity, with the ability to distinguish material concerns from manageable ones and recommend compliant, practical paths forward.
- Prior experience in a fast paced, high growth or entrepreneurial company
- Strong track record managing outside counsel relationships
Preferred Qualifications:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex legal topics to non legal audiences
- Experience in mentoring and developing legal talent
- Experience supporting M&A or financing transactions
- Comfortable working remotely, with sufficient schedule flexibility to maintain meaningful overlap with colleagues located across the country.
#LI-Remote
Shown below is the lowest to highest base salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the base salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. At Doma, compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case.
This job is also eligible for the following compensation components: Bonus & Equity
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits to eligible employees (FTE, non-contract): medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), generous vacation time, and paid bonding leave.
Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
We believe the most valuable investment we can make is to build an outstanding team of colleagues and leaders who are passionate about our mission.
We currently offer the following benefits to all Full-Time employees:
- Work/Life Balance - We encourage taking Paid Time Off (PTO)!
- 12 Weeks of Paid Family Bonding Leave (Maternity and Paternity)
- Incredible medical, dental, and vision benefits options to allow you to customize to you and your family’s needs that all start in the following month following your first day of employment
- Health Savings Account (HSA)
- 401K with company match program
- Short-Term & Long-Term Disability
- Supplemental Life and AD&D Insurance
- Critical Illness, Injury and Hospital Insurance
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Similar Jobs
What you need to know about the Austin Tech Scene
Key Facts About Austin Tech
- Number of Tech Workers: 180,500; 13.7% of overall workforce (2024 CompTIA survey)
- Major Tech Employers: Dell, IBM, AMD, Apple, Alphabet
- Key Industries: Artificial intelligence, hardware, cloud computing, software, healthtech
- Funding Landscape: $4.5 billion in VC funding in 2024 (Pitchbook)
- Notable Investors: Live Oak Ventures, Austin Ventures, Hinge Capital, Gigafund, KdT Ventures, Next Coast Ventures, Silverton Partners
- Research Centers and Universities: University of Texas, Southwestern University, Texas State University, Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, Texas Advanced Computing Center
