The VP Legal will manage legal matters across Omnidian, including contracts, compliance, and providing strategic guidance to the executive team, while ensuring legal alignment with business objectives.
About Omnidian
Omnidian, Inc. is a fast-growing Series C tech-enabled service company revolutionizing performance assurance for the distributed solar and energy storage industries. Omnidian is building a more sustainable future for the planet through our passionate teams, our innovative technology, and by creating an amazing customer experience. We are headquartered in Seattle, WA
The Job
We’re seeking an experienced, business-minded attorney for our in-house counsel. In this role, you’ll handle a broad spectrum of legal matters across the organization, including commercial transactions, business development, corporate law, insurance, and stock plan administration. This is a unique opportunity to gain exposure to diverse legal challenges while contributing to strategic initiatives as we scale.
Reporting to the CEO and as a key advisor to the executive team, you’ll contribute to strategic decision-making and ensure legal alignment with business objectives, helping Omnidian scale effectively and sustainably.
If you’re confident, creative, and thrive in ambiguity, with a bias toward action and innovative solutions, we’d love to hear from you!
What You'll Do
- At Omnidian we believe in trust and autonomy. How you create an impact is ultimately up to you. Here is an outline of some of the things you’ll be doing:
- Handle a broad range of commercial and transactional matters, serving as an escalation point for issue resolution and improving contract templates and playbooks.
- Work cross-functionally to support Omnidian’s initiatives on a wide variety of commercial transactions related to the business operations.
- Provide legal and strategic guidance to assess and mitigate legal risk by building a deep understanding of the business and collaborate with internal clients to support their goals.
- Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of commercial and transactional contracts, including customer contracts, business development arrangements, and vendor agreements such as master service agreements, vendor service agreements and other purchase agreements.
- Support compliance, data privacy, and intellectual property strategy as the company scales and expands into new markets.
Legal Leadership and Strategic Guidance
Contract Management and Compliance
Who You Are
- You are a strategic thinker with excellent judgment and a demonstrated ability to balance legal risk with business objectives.
- You are a self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment and enjoys taking ownership of complex projects.
- You are an exceptional communicator who can translate complex legal concepts into practical, actionable advice for business leaders.
- You are eager to develop expertise in new or unfamiliar areas of law
Experience You’ll Need
- J.D. degree with solid academic credentials and a state bar membership
- 10+ years of experience in a top-tier law firm and/or an in-house legal dept
- Proven experience in handling complex commercial transactions in fast-growing industries.
Experience That's a Plus
- Experience with venture-backed corporate transactions and contract negotiations
- Familiarity with legal issues specific to the renewable energy or technology sectors.
- Background in compliance, data privacy, or intellectual property law.
- Proficiency with equity compensation and stock plan administration.
- Experience navigating an IPO or acquisition
Work-life and Culture
- Most of our roles offer the opportunity to work remotely
- If you are in the Seattle area, we offer a vibrant office space in the historic and beautiful Smith Tower, in the heart of Pioneer Square
- We prioritize applicants near one of our employee clusters and offer one or more local gatherings per year
- We provide outstanding benefits including family medical, dental, vision, disability, 401(k) administration and $1k match per year and thoughtful paid time off
- We offer 12 weeks of paid parental leave to all FTE employees (birthing and non-birthing) after 1 year, and four-week paid sabbatical leave after four years
- We offer a competitive total compensation package that includes monthly health insurance premiums, bonuses and long-term stock options for every employee
- We love to lift each other up through company-wide slack channels such as #puppiesandpets, #omnidian-wellness, #praiseandbooms and #sustainablefuture
- We have affinity groups to help employees feel seen and supported, such as Rainbow Array, BIPOC, Thriving Survivors, Vets at Omnidian, Black Lights Matter and Neurospicy R Us
- We are a passionate, mission driven team that believes in collaboration, mutual respect and trust. For examples, come Discover our Story
Grow With Us
- We mentor and invest in our employees and prioritize them for future opportunities. Check out our Instagram reels to see a few career journey examples
- Internal candidates: Check out our advice on Internal Transfer: Job Application Process
- We’re a fast-growing startup, which means we’re constantly reinventing processes, adding new products, and asking people to use all of their skills and talents. That means there’s gonna be a lot of opportunities for you to grow, which also means you will likely be stretched in ways you’ve never experienced in a job before. If you are resilient, determined, and not afraid of a big challenge, come apply.
#LI-REMOTE
Privacy
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Diversity and Inclusion
We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and a better product for our customers. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We value diversity and inclusion and are committed to ensuring our hiring and retention practices, as well as our office culture, reflects this value.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
Omnidian is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to diversity in the workplace. We make employment decisions on the basis of merit and business need. We hire without consideration to age, ancestry, citizenship, disability, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, national origin, political activity or affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other basis protected by law.
We invite you to be part of our mission to create a workplace that is inclusive and welcoming to all.
Top Skills
Compliance
Data Privacy
Intellectual Property
Legal
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