About the role
Superhuman offers a dynamic hybrid working model for this role. This flexible approach gives team members the best of both worlds: plenty of focus time along with in-person collaboration that helps foster trust, innovation, and a strong team culture. Superhuman team members in this role must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area or New York City, and they must be able to collaborate in person 2 days a week. About Superhuman Grammarly is now part of Superhuman, the AI productivity platform on a mission to unlock the superhuman potential in everyone. The Superhuman suite of apps and agents brings AI wherever people work, integrating with over 1 million applications and websites. The company’s products include Grammarly’s writing assistance, Superhuman Docs's collaborative workspaces, Mail’s inbox management, and Go, the proactive AI assistant that understands context and delivers help automatically. Founded in 2009, Superhuman empowers over 40 million people, 50,000 organizations, and 3,000 educational institutions worldwide to eliminate busywork and focus on what matters. Learn more at superhuman.com and about our values here . The Opportunity To achieve our ambitious and exciting goals, we’re looking for a Senior Counsel, M&A to join the Superhuman Legal team to lead the structuring, negotiation, and execution of complex corporate M&A transactions, including overseeing legal due diligence, post-closing integration, and also provide support on general corporate transactions, governance, and investor relations matters. Reporting directly to Superhuman’s Head of Corporate Legal, this role will take primary ownership of all M&A and strategic transaction work and will partner closely with our Executive, Corporate Development, Finance, and People teams to develop strong, extensible and repeatable practices to help move the business forward. As a core member and contributor on the Legal team, this person will also help develop and bolster the culture of the Legal team by exemplifying care for their craft, care for others, and a commitment to finding collaborative solutions to complex questions. As Senior Counsel, M&A, you will leverage your deep transactional experience and expertise to support and accelerate Superhuman’s next era of growth. You will take on critical, high-profile M&A projects with accuracy, creativity, and ownership. You will use your background, skill, and creativity to efficiently use outside counsel, build repeatable cross-functional processes, build trust across the legal team and the business all with an eye toward achieving our strategic acquisition goals. In this role, you will: Collaborate cross-functionally across the company at every level on M&A, strategic transactions, and investor-related matters. Structure, conduct, and manage legal due diligence, engaging internal and external partners when necessary to ensure alignment Draft, negotiate, socialize, and review transaction documents Lead deal execution logistics, including managing post-closing integration and compliance efforts Support, as a secondary responsibility, corporate governance matters, including corporate entity management, new entity development and implementation, equity program strategic planning, insurance, and board-related matters Develop strategies for handling legal issues in creative ways and build processes for scaling flexible solutions that address risk Advise internal stakeholders, providing clear, concise, and thorough guidance on legal risks, obligations, and mitigations
