Associate General Counsel Corporate - Deepgram

Company Overview

Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents at scale. More than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are 'Powered by Deepgram', including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box. Backed by a recent Series C led by leading global investors, Deepgram has processed over 50,000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words.

Company Operating Rhythm

At Deepgram, we expect an AI-first mindset—AI use and comfort aren't optional, they're core to how we operate, innovate, and measure performance. Every team member is expected to actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools, integrate them into daily workflows, and adapt quickly to a fast-paced environment.

We're looking for an exceptional corporate lawyer to join our high-impact legal team and own the corporate function at a company operating at the frontier of voice AI. You’ll be the lead lawyer on financing and M&A transactions, IPO readiness, corporate governance, and our international structure, reporting directly to our General Counsel.

What You’ll Do

• Direct corporate governance at Deepgram, building the habits and systems that help us move with clarity and confidence.
• Drive the legal roadmap for IPO readiness — the compliance frameworks, future SEC reporting structures, and internal governance policies a public company runs on.
• Prepare for, structure and execute financings that support our ambitions.
• Lead our M&A legal work from conversation through integration to grow the company and widen what we're able to build.
• Partner with Finance and People on employee equity — compensation programs, cap table, secondaries — and mature the machinery behind how every employee shares in what they build here.
• Design the legal and business processes that let us scale globally with international subsidiaries.
• Track worldwide regulatory developments that touch our corporate structure and governance, and translate them into positions the company can act on.
• Build the AI-native corporate practice at Deepgram with workflows and systems that scale our team's impact.
• Roll up your sleeves on the full breadth of legal issues that come with being a fast-growing startup.

You’ll Love This Role If You

• Want to take a company through the whole arc — growth rounds, acquisitions, and the road to public — and want your fingerprints on how it gets built.
• Treat the cap table, the board, and the corporate structure as products with users, not paperwork.
• Get energized by being the first — building systems from scratch and establishing foundational practices.
• Are very practical in addressing legal issues and allergic to unnecessary friction.
• Have an abiding spirit of idealism about your chosen profession — you’re not just closing deals, you’re building something that matters.
• Have a point of view on what good lawyering looks like and a healthy sense of humor about everything else.

It’s Important To Us That You Have

• JD from a U.S. accredited law school and 7–15 years of experience in legal practice (or more), in-house, at a firm, or both.
• Demonstrated strength in working with private, venture backed companies on a high growth trajectory, including on IPO readiness.
• Fluency in the issues that matter most to us: IPO readiness, financings, M&A, governance, Board matters, employee equity, and international structures.
• Comfort living in grey areas while giving clear and actionable advice.
• Exceptional writing — precise, plain, and compelling.

It Would Be Great if You Had

• Experience taking a company public as an in-house lawyer.
• Hands-on experience with corporate and legal issues in the AI space.