Associate General Counsel Corporate

Deepgram is bringing the world’s most natural interface, voice, to the technology we use every day. Our speech models and real-time infrastructure power AI systems that keep up with the way people actually speak. More than 5,000 organizations run conversational voice AI on Deepgram in production, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box.

The Deepgram Voice Agent Platform brings together speech-to-text, text-to-speech and speech-to-speech, with voice-native foundation models available through cloud APIs or self-hosted and on-premises deployments. Built for accuracy, low latency and cost efficiency, Deepgram makes high-quality voice experiences practical to build and run at scale. More than 650,000 developers have used Deepgram to process more than 200,000 years of audio. Every day, more of the world’s conversations with AI run on our models.

Operating Principles:

Deepgram is a research company that productizes as fast as possible. Four Operating Principles shape how we think, decide, and work together:

1. Compress before you communicate. You think it through first, then lead with the bottom line.

2. Resist entropy. You question what already exists before adding more process or tools.

3. Solve the category. You fix recurring problems at the source, not one case at a time.

4. Work at the frontier. You go after problems no one has solved yet.

We look for people who already work this way, and these principles shape how we grow and evaluate our team.

We build AI that millions of people talk to, and we run the company the same way. AI is how we centralize work here, and is core to how we operate.

That means more than using the tools. We expect you to

• Build, not just use. Design your own workflows and agents, and use AI to remove whole categories of work instead of doing the same work faster.

• Own the output. AI can speed up the work. It doesn’t make anyone less accountable for it. You understand, verify, and stand behind everything you share, including what an agent produces for you.

• Spend the time you get back at the frontier. The capacity AI creates goes toward problems no one has solved yet.

• Keep pace. Models and tools change every month, and so will your work. You adopt what’s new quickly and drop what no longer earns its place.

We judge AI by what it helps you deliver and whether you stand behind the result, not by how often you use it. In interviews, expect to walk us through a workflow you built and where you drew the line between AI and your own judgment.

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.

Deepgram is at an inflection point and our legal team has a real seat at the table. We're growing fast, the market is coming to voice, and the decisions we make now about how this company is structured, financed, and governed will set the pace for the next decade. You’ll be the lead lawyer on financing and M&A transactions, IPO readiness, corporate governance, and our international structure — and the person who takes the long view on all of it.

This role is ideal for someone with genuine conviction that voice is the most consequential interface with AI, and who wants to build the corporate function of the company defining it.

You'll report directly to our General Counsel and help establish a legal function that scales with a company on a steep trajectory, using AI as your default mode of working to set the standard for what AI-native legal work looks like.

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 the 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. A successful candidate will have depth of experience in at least some of these areas, and a willingness to learn the rest.

• Recognize that law is about the grey areas, and are comfortable living in them, 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 — you know what good looks like and how to build legal infrastructure that accelerates this roadmap

• Hands-on experience with corporate and legal issues in the AI space

We read cover letters! If you want to stand out, pick one: Tell us about a time your corporate work let the business do something it otherwise couldn't — what the constraint was, what you built, and what it opened up. Or tell us what fast-growing private companies most often get wrong about how they're structured or governed, and what good looks like instead.

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