Associate Corporate Counsel

About Ethos

Ethos was built to make it faster and easier to get life insurance for the next million families. Our approach blends industry expertise, technology, and the human touch to find you the right policy to protect your loved ones.

We leverage deep technology and data science to streamline the life insurance process, making it more accessible and convenient. Using predictive analytics, we are able to transform a traditionally multi-week process into a modern digital experience for our users that can take just minutes! We've issued billions in coverage each month and eliminated the traditional barriers, ushering the industry into the modern age. Our full-stack technology platform is the backbone of family financial health.

We make getting life insurance easier, faster and better for everyone.

Our investors include General Catalyst, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Google Ventures, SoftBank, and the investment vehicles of Jay-Z, Kevin Durant, Robert Downey Jr and others. This year, we were named on CB Insights' Global Insurtech 50 list and BuiltIn's Top 100 Midsize Companies in San Francisco. We are scaling quickly and looking for passionate people to protect the next million families!

About the Role

Ethos is looking for a talented Associate Corporate Counsel to join our team. You will help build a world class Legal Department and will report directly to the General Counsel. A strong candidate is passionate about corporate law and building great companies, is creative at finding solutions, enjoys working hard and being challenged, wants to continuously grow and expand their skill set, and demonstrates sound judgment in ambiguous situations.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• You will work on corporate law matters?"both domestic and international?"including governance, financings, entity management, and cap-table management.
• Assist with a wide variety of issues, including employment law, IP matters, and handling pre-litigation matters.

Qualifications and Skills:

• JD and admitted to at least 1 state bar
• 2+ years of experience in a top-tier law firm's corporate law practice group and/or in-house experience at a technology company
• Bias to action: You are excited to help build a world class legal team, and you are able to move with purpose to achieve your client's goals timely.
• Detail-oriented: You are obsessed about the details. You take pride in your work and will go the extra mile to make sure our contracting process operates at the highest level.
• Team mentality: You're excited to work cross-functionally and to learn the operations of different departments in order to best support them.
• Excellent communication skills: You can make complex legal concepts easily understandable and are comfortable in one-on-one meetings or presenting to large groups on legal issues.

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The US national base salary range for this full-time position is $82,000 - $138,000. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only and do not include applicable bonus, equity, or benefits.

You can find further details of our US benefits at https://www.ethoslife.com/careers/

Don't meet every single requirement? If you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. At Ethos we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace.

We are an equal opportunity employer who values diversity and inclusion and look for applicants who understand, embrace and thrive in a multicultural world. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the SF Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider employment for qualified applicants with arrests and conviction records.

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