Corporate Paralegal
About the Company
KoBold Metals is a mineral exploration company using AI to explore for the metals we need for our transition to a low-carbon economy. KoBold’s business is discovering, defining, expanding, and developing mineral resources, and KoBold’s objective is to achieve a step-change improvement in exploration success: we aim to discover more tier 1 resources, faster, and with fewer failures.
KoBold has a global portfolio of more than 50 exploration properties targeting nickel, copper, cobalt, and lithium, which range from 100%-owned to partnerships with both majors, junior explorers, and prospectors.
Our team includes the best of the industry in exploration geoscience, data science, software engineering, operations, and business personnel. Prior to joining KoBold, KoBold team members have made nearly 20 discoveries. Our exploration programs are co-led by our geoscientists and data scientists, who develop exploration hypotheses, rigorously quantify uncertainty in our understanding of the subsurface, and design data collection programs that most effectively reduce uncertainty, drawing upon a large suite of proprietary exploration technology built by our data scientists and software engineers. Our field programs validate and improve the system and have demonstrated material improvements over conventional exploration methods
KoBold is privately held and our investors include: institutional asset managers T. Rowe Rice and Canada Pension Plan Investments; technology venture capitalists Andreessen Horowitz, Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy Ventures, BOND Capital, Standard Investments, and Sam Altman’s Apollo Projects; and leading natural resources companies Equinor, Mitsubishi, and BHP.
About The Role:
Responsibilities
The corporate paralegal will:
- Play an essential role in building processes to run the legal department at a climate tech company growing rapidly around the world
- Take ownership of important aspects of compliance, including annual legal entity registrations and filings
- Create and maintain systems and form documents to give company attorneys, executives, and scientists well-organized access to contracts, confidential information, due diligence materials, and other documents for our work
- Respond rapidly to questions and requests from the GC, Deputy GC, and others for documents, information, and analysis relating to any of the company’s legal and business functions worldwide
- Work with the GC and Deputy GC to create and maintain the records, policies, and filing systems for the company
- Engage with the company’s outside counsel around the world (U.S., Canada, Australia, UK, Greenland, Zambia) and assist the legal department with tracking its external firm engagements
- Engage directly with staff at the company’s most important business partners to build relationships, resolve problems, and advance our business
- Support company attorneys and executives in negotiations of significant transactions with mining companies, indigenous groups, tech companies, governments, universities, vendors, and individuals worldwide
- Handle, organize and manage highly confidential data and other materials for both everyday business matters and potential transactions
- Provide leverage and support to the GC and Deputy GC so that they are more effective at advancing the company’s priorities
- Work on whatever needs to be done
Qualifications
The candidate must have:
- At least 8 years working as a corporate paralegal, including extensive experience with legal entity management of foreign subsidiaries, maintenance of form agreements and building contract systems
- A proven record of the highest quality work showing commitment, collaboration, and intelligence
- Strong desire and ability to provide leverage, support, and partnership to the GC and Deputy GC
- Strong ability to learn new tools and technology and solve new problems continuously
- Strong organizational and communication skills with great attention to detail - someone who likes to organize and be organized
- Interest in working in a company that requires high levels of collaboration among teammates working remotely across many time zones and continents.
- Interest in working in a science-based company where most colleagues are scientists and science is the focus of many company meetings and documents
- Interest in working in a global company and learning many foreign legal systems and business environments
- Strong desire and ability to develop relationships throughout the company and beyond
- Strong ability to be a leader in setting a high standard of ethics
- An optimistic attitude toward work and people
It is not necessary to have experience with mining or mineral exploration; the successful candidate will be able to learn what’s needed about the industry on the job.
KoBold Metals is an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunities for people of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.
This position is full-time, exempt.
Salary range: $70,000 - $100,000 and stock options
Location: Remote, anywhere in the U.S.
All candidates must be legally authorized to work in the U.S.