Founding CTO, AI Legal Tech (SF Bay Area)
# Founding CTO, AI Legal Tech (SF Bay Area) **Lavendo** · United States · `Remote` · `Full Time` 💼 **Уровень роли:** `Executive` 💰 **Компенсация:** `$160,000 – $220,000` 🕒 **Статус:** *Опубликовано: сегодня* · *Источник: Himalayas (JSON API)* --- ### Top Skills & Match 🎯 **Ключевой стек роли:** `[Founding-CTO]` --- ### About the Role Lavendo partners with startups and high‑growth companies to help them hire top‑tier sales, GTM, and technical talent. This role is with one of our clients; we’ll share full details about the company and interview process as we get to know you and confirm mutual fit. About the Company Our client is an early-stage, San Francisco-based AI startup building the operating system for family law. Their platform automates the most time-intensive parts of legal practice — client intake, financial disclosures, document preparation, case management, and client collaboration — helping family law firms modernize and scale without adding headcount. Founded in 2025, the company is already working with real customers and actively closing a seed round, with $XM signed to date. The Mission To reduce the emotional and financial burden of divorce for millions of families — and empower the legal professionals who serve them — by transforming a fragmented, manual process into a guided, intelligent, AI-driven experience. The Opportunity This is a co-founder seat, not a hire. You're joining at the inflection point: real product, real customers, seed round closing. As the first technical leader, you'll own the full stack — architecture, AI infrastructure, engineering culture, and execution velocity. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with the founding team to define how AI reshapes one of the largest, most underserved verticals in legal services. If you've been waiting for a founding opportunity where the market is real, the mission matters, and the equity is worth the bet — this is it. What You'll Do - Own and define end-to-end technical architecture of the platform - Write and ship production code daily alongside the founding team - Architect and scale AI agent infrastructure for legal workflows — billing, financial layers, document automation, collections, and client collaboration - Build and scale the engineering team from scratch — hiring, mentoring, and establishing culture - Partner with founders on product roadmap, fundraising narrative, and company strategy - Ensure security, compliance, and scalability of a document-heavy, regulated-industry platform - Drive rapid iteration cycles and maintain startup velocity through seed close and beyond What You Bring Must-Haves: - 8+ years of software engineering experience, with 3–5+ years in technical leadership - Deeply hands-on — you still write and ship production code regularly - Proven experience building AI-native, workflow-heavy, or document-centric SaaS products - Proficiency with modern AI/ML stacks: LLMs, RAG, and agentic frameworks (LangChain/LangGraph, OpenAI/Claude APIs) - Strong backend and cloud infrastructure expertise (GCP/AWS, Python, Node.js, Kubernetes) - Experience building engineering teams in a 0→1 environment - Based in the SF Bay Area or willing to relocate - Financially comfortable with a founder salary model during the build phase — equity is the upside Nice-to-Haves: - Exposure to legal tech, compliance-heavy, or regulated-industry products - Experience with document automation platforms - Prior founding experience or early employee (1–50 person company) - Background at Big Tech or high-growth SaaS - Genuine interest in access to justice and modernizing legal services Key Success Drivers - Builder-first — you ship fast, don't wait for perfect conditions, and take pride in what you launch - Full ownership — you treat the product and team like they're yours, because they will be - Systems thinker — you design for agentic workflows and automation, not just feature lists - Ambiguity-tolerant — you thrive in 0→1 environments without a defined playbook - Mission-aligned — you're genuinely excited about AI's role in transforming legal services - Speed over perfection — you iterate fast, learn faster, and course-correct in real time Why Join? Compensation & Equity: - 7-10% founder-level equity — significantly above market, reflecting a true founding relationship - Base salary: ~$4,000/month during the pre-seed phase, with a clear normalization trigger post-seed close - Upside is entirely equity-driven, structured for long-term wealth creation What Makes This Rare: - Co-founder title and seat — not a VP/Director scope with imposed constraints - Real product traction and paying customers before you join - Seed round in progress: $XM already signed - Recognized by TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield and Stanford CodeX FutureLaw - Greenfield opportunity to define the technical foundation of a category-creating company Interviewing Process - Intro Call - Level 1 — Technical Deep-Dive - Level 2 — Take-Home or Live Build Exercise - Level 3 — In-Person Co-Founder Day (half day, SF) - Reference Checks + Offer Compensation Range: $160K - $220K Originally posted on Himalayas
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Наблюдалась 2026-09-28, впервые 2026-09-28, источник — Himalayas (JSON API).