Legal Counsel @ Voice AI Unicorn

About the Company

Whistler Partners is partnering with a high-growth AI technology company building voice-driven customer engagement infrastructure for the home services market.

The company’s platform uses AI-powered conversational agents to handle high-value inbound calls, book jobs, qualify leads, and drive revenue for home service businesses. Backed by leading venture investors, the company has raised significant capital, reached unicorn status, and scaled rapidly across its New York headquarters and West Coast office.

This is a category-building business operating in a large, fragmented market where speed, consistency, and customer conversion matter.

Why this role?

This is a true build-from-scratch legal seat.

The company is looking for a hands-on attorney who can own commercial contracting, support revenue growth, manage partnership and vendor agreements, and jump into the strategic legal projects that come with scaling a fast-moving AI business.

The role will report to the Head of Finance & Operations and work closely with the executive team across contracting, privacy, AI, governance, equity administration, cross-border matters, M&A diligence, and legal operations. The right candidate will not just “review contracts.” They will build the playbooks, templates, workflows, and risk framework that let GTM and operations move quickly without creating unnecessary legal drag.

For someone with strong firm training, real startup experience, and the commercial instincts to find the path to yes, this is a rare chance to become the first lawyer inside a unicorn-stage AI company.

Key Responsibilities

• Own commercial contracting end-to-end, including MSAs, order forms, DPAs, enterprise agreements, and mid-market customer agreements.
• Draft, review, and negotiate partnership agreements, vendor agreements, and other business-critical commercial contracts.
• Support strategic projects involving JV structuring, entity formation, M&A diligence and integration, cross-border arrangements, equity matters, and corporate governance.
• Partner with Finance & Operations on equity administration, cap table mechanics, board materials, and corporate housekeeping.
• Advise on privacy, AI, data, and regulatory matters relevant to a voice-AI platform.
• Manage outside counsel efficiently, escalating only where firm-level expertise is needed.
• Build playbooks, templates, and self-serve workflows that help GTM and operations move faster while maintaining the right risk posture.
• Serve as a practical, business-facing legal partner to leadership in a high-growth startup environment.

About You

• J.D. and active New York bar membership, or eligibility for in-house registration.
• Approximately 6+ years of legal experience, ideally including 3 years of law firm experience and 3 years in-house or directly counseling startup founders.
• Strong law firm training preferred, with operating experience at a Series A through D company strongly preferred.
• Strong commercial contracts background, including MSAs, order forms, DPAs, customer agreements, partnership agreements, and vendor agreements.
• Comfort with a role that is roughly 50% commercial contracts negotiation, 25% partnership and vendor agreements, and 25% ad hoc strategic projects.
• Strong commercial instincts and comfort owning negotiations with counterparties and outside counsel.
• Operator mindset — someone who wants to do the work, build the system, and stay close to the details.
• Pragmatic counseling style with the ability to protect the company without slowing it down.
• Comfort working full-time in office in New York.

Compensation & Benefits

• $210,000–$270,000 base compensation.
• Performance bonus and equity.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Company-sponsored 401(k).
• Flexible PTO plus U.S. federal holidays.
• Daily in-office lunch and dinner when working late.
• Commuter benefits and late-night rideshare.
• Company-wide off-sites.

TL;DR

Voice AI unicorn hiring its first in-house lawyer in New York. Strong fit for a commercially minded attorney with firm training and startup experience who can own contracts, partnerships, vendor agreements, equity, governance, privacy, AI, regulatory issues, and strategic projects from the ground up. High-ownership, in-office role with bonus, equity, and real legal-function-building authority.

About Whistler Partners

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