# Head of Legal - Company: [Concoursetech]() - Location: New York City - Team: Operations - Employment type: Full Time - Posted: August 26, 2026 ## Job description **What You'll Do** * Build and lead the legal function at Concourse as our first legal hire, owning everything from contracts to compliance to corporate matters * Oversee government contracting end to end, drafting, negotiating, and closing agreements with state and local government partners * Stand up templates, playbooks, and self-serve processes so sales and delivery teams can move quickly without waiting on legal for every question * Lead privacy, security, and data protection matters, including how our AI products handle government and resident data * Track the evolving regulatory landscape for AI, especially as it applies to government use, and translate it into practical guidance for product and go-to-market teams * Manage corporate governance, financings, equity, and board matters in partnership with the CEO and outside counsel * Handle employment, IP, and commercial vendor matters as the company scales * Use AI tools to scale your work, automating contract review, research, and repeatable legal workflows **What We're Looking For** * Juris Doctor from a top law school with a strong academic record * Several years of practice at a top law firm, ideally in corporate, technology transactions, or government contracts work * Eagerness to work at a startup: you want ownership of an entire function and you'd rather build the machine than operate inside one * Enthusiasm for AI: you're excited to use tools like Claude to 10x your output and to reason about the novel legal questions AI raises * Comfort navigating government or enterprise procurement, or a strong interest in learning the public sector landscape * Strong commercial instincts: you know when to hold a position and when a risk is worth taking, and you communicate tradeoffs in plain language * Structured thinker who can turn ambiguous situations into a clear plan and next steps * High agency: you find the work that needs doing and do it without being asked * Based in or willing to relocate to NYC for in-office work **Why This Role** * Build the Legal Function From Scratch – You're the first legal hire, defining how Concourse handles contracts, compliance, and risk from the ground up. * Own Consequential Work – Government deals live and die on contracting and procurement; your work directly determines how fast the company can grow. * Ground Floor Opportunity – Join an early-stage startup led by a repeat founder with a successful exit. **About Concourse** Concourse is a fast-growing, AI-native startup building software for the public sector. This is the second venture for our CEO, after a successful exit. We help governments provide better services to citizens at a lower cost by replacing inefficient legacy systems. We're building everything from Hawaii's online bail platform to a system that flags leaks in residents' homes in Owosso, Michigan. The nature of technology and work has fundamentally changed. Join a team of superstars in a flat organizational structure, where being AI-native means every team member is empowered by a running fleet of long-horizon agents to own entire projects and client relationships end to end. Based in Flatiron, NYC. ## Apply [Apply on Concoursetech]() Canonical job page: