Head of Legal

🇺🇸 San Francisco | NYC, CA | NY
$200K - $260K Annual
Posted 2 months ago
Expires May 29, 2026

TL;DR – WHY THIS ROLE MATTERS

Scribe is looking for a Head of Legal — our first dedicated legal hire. This is a rare opportunity to build the legal function from the ground up at a fast-growing AI company, with full ownership over how it's designed, run, and scaled. Your most immediate impact will be on the commercial side — building scalable processes, and becoming the legal partner our revenue teams rely on to close deals. From there, you'll play a critical role shaping Scribe’s broader legal strategy across privacy & compliance, corporate, IP, and employment — including the data and AI frameworks that put Scribe at the forefront of how AI companies think about data usage. If you're a sharp, business-minded lawyer who's energized by building something from zero, wants real autonomy and influence, and is looking for the most interesting legal work in AI right now this job could be for you.

👋 ABOUT US

Scribe is where exceptional people come to do the best work of their careers. More than 94% of the Fortune 500 use Scribe to document and scale how work gets done. Our Workflow AI platform automatically captures and optimizes workflows so teams work smarter, faster, and more consistently.

We’re growing fast — since our founding in 2019, we’ve grown to over 5 million users across 600,000 businesses. Based in San Francisco, we've been named a LinkedIn Top Startup, are valued at over $1 billion, and are backed by leading investors. Join us in our mission to uplevel how people do work.

🛠️ HOW WE WORK

We are builders aspiring to master our crafts. We care deeply about our teammates and want to win, together. We fully embrace the following values:

- Accelerate impact

- Raise the bar

- Make our users heroes

- Clear is kind

- Rapid learning machine

- One team one dream

ABOUT THE ROLE

As the company’s Legal partner, you will:

- Assume day-to-day management of the legal function and serving as a decision-maker and advisor on ope...