General Counsel - Austin

Location: US-based
Type: Full-Time or Contract-to-Hire

About Human Agency

We're scaling rapidly and have a growing pipeline of opportunities that demand exceptional talent across disciplines. Our mission is to bring on individuals, from creative producers to technical experts to entrepreneurial leaders, who can help us realize this next chapter of growth.

We are a company of doers. Leaders roll up their sleeves, teams work flat, and everyone contributes to what ships. Titles don't insulate us from feedback or basics. We invite critique, learn quickly, and keep raising the bar. The best ideas win here, no matter where they come from, because clients trust us to deliver the strongest outcomes every time.

Our clients' missions, products, and bottom lines are sacred. We immerse ourselves in their world, becoming stewards of their goals and partners in solving big problems. Every product, strategy, or asset we create must be both beautiful and functional; practical, usable, and designed for real-world impact.

Humans are our most valuable resource, and we only grow by hiring people who push us forward. Across strategy, engineering, design, data, and operations, we seek out teammates who raise the bar and make us better. Always hire up, never down.

We partner with organizations of all sizes to explore, design, and implement AI strategies that are secure, scalable, and human-centered. We believe AI should amplify human potential, not replace it, and we build with that conviction in every engagement. From advisory and tooling to implementation and education, we meet clients where they are and help them integrate AI in ways that align with their mission and values. Our goal is to empower teams to work smarter, move faster, and unlock new possibilities through thoughtful, responsible innovation.

And through it all, we lead with purpose, love, and adventure. We do meaningful work with people we care about, and we make the ride an adventure worth taking. Because at Human Agency, who we are and how we work are one and the same.

The Opportunity

Human Agency is not a single company. We're an expanding architecture of companies. We run a core AI consultancy, we're forming an investment fund, we're standing up an operating company, and we're building a portfolio that will grow into the hundreds alongside a broad product suite. We also create and support nonprofits and political entities. The legal complexity that comes with all of that is real, and it's growing faster than any outside counsel arrangement can gracefully handle.

This is the role that holds the structure together. The General Counsel will own the legal function end-to-end, designing the entity architecture, running transactions and acquisitions, building governance across a diverse set of legal forms, and advising senior leadership directly. There is no legal team waiting underneath you. You will be the function, with outside counsel reserved for narrow specialist work that genuinely warrants it.

The right person for this role is a transactional lawyer who has outgrown the billable-hour model and wants to own something. You'll work directly with the Founder and CEO, influence strategy, and build the legal infrastructure for an enterprise that intends to scale significantly. If you've ever wanted to be the architect rather than the contractor, this is that opportunity.

What You'll Own

Entity Architecture & Corporate Structure

• Design and maintain a coherent legal structure spanning the consulting company, fund, operating company, portfolio companies, nonprofits, and political entities. Optimize for tax efficiency, liability containment, clean ownership, and operational clarity.

Fund Formation & Investment Work

• Structure and stand up the fund and its related vehicles, including the general partner, management company, and fund entities; draft and negotiate partnership agreements, subscription documents, and side letters; manage securities compliance and support investor onboarding.

Transactions & Acquisitions

• Lead the legal execution of acquisitions and roll-ups across a portfolio built to scale into the hundreds. Run purchase agreements, diligence, financing, and integration from start to close.

Tax-Aware Structuring

• Own entity selection, inter-company arrangements, related-party transactions, equity and incentive design, and multi-state exposure; coordinate with tax advisors where helpful, and make the structuring calls yourself where you can.

Commercial Contracts & IP

• Draft and negotiate the agreements that run the business (MSAs, vendor and partner contracts, licensing, and confidentiality terms) while protecting the portfolio's IP across trademarks, trade secrets, copyrights, and