Paralegal

February 13

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KoBold Metals

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KoBold Metals is a company specializing in advanced mineral exploration. By investing over $100 million annually across 60+ projects on five continents, KoBold is at the forefront of using artificial intelligence and novel hardware to transform mineral exploration into a repeatable science. The company aggregates comprehensive data on the Earth's crust and utilizes proprietary AI tools, including the Machine Prospector® system, to minimize uncertainties in exploration. KoBold Metals is committed to ethical exploration practices and is backed by world-class investors dedicated to discovering and developing new battery metal resources. Their innovative approach leverages AI to build the world's largest geoscience information collection and model subsurface data statistically.

51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔬 Science

⚡ Energy

📋 Description

• The Paralegal will: • Play an essential role in the legal department at a climate tech company growing rapidly around the world. • Create and maintain systems to give company attorneys, executives, investors, and scientists well-organized access to and ability to track contracts, confidential information, due diligence materials, other documents, and legal obligations. • Respond rapidly to questions and requests from the legal, finance, tax and other departments for documents, information, and analysis relating to any of the company’s legal and business functions worldwide. • Support company attorneys and executives in negotiations with mining companies, tech companies, governments, universities, vendors, and individuals worldwide. • Work with the company attorneys to create and maintain the records, policies, and systems that position the company for our everyday operations and most significant transactions, including commercial contracts, corporate financings and joint ventures. • Manage form agreements and draft simple contracts based on templates, including NDAs and vendor agreements. • Review highly confidential and important due diligence materials for potential transactions and manage confidential data rooms. • Assist with operationalizing and refining workflows within the legal department. • Engage with and support the company’s outside counsel around the world (U.S., Finland, Canada, Australia, DRC, Zambia, Namibia) to complete administrative work within the company, saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in outside counsel expense. • Work with internal stakeholders, inventors, and outside counsel on the company’s patent prosecution by assisting with patent filings, maintaining intellectual property records, and tracking deadlines. • Work closely with scientists and engineers at the company to ensure compliance with confidentiality and data protection obligations. • Engage directly with staff at the company’s most important business partners to build relationships, resolve problems, and advance our business. • Provide leverage and support to the attorneys so that they are more effective at advancing the company’s priorities. • Work on whatever needs to be done.

🎯 Requirements

• A proven record, in academic work and/or employment, of the highest quality work showing commitment, collaboration, and intelligence. • Strong desire to spend a minimum of 3 years working and learning at an exciting company in preparation for the next steps of a legal career. • Strong desire and ability to provide leverage, support, and partnership to company’s attorneys. • Strong desire and ability to develop relationships throughout the company and beyond. • Strong organizational, leadership, technology and communication skills with great attention to detail - someone who likes to organize and be organized. • Interest in working in a science-based company where most colleagues are scientists and science is the focus of many company meetings and documents. • Interest in working in a global company, collaborating among teammates across many time zones and continents while learning many foreign legal systems and business environments. • Interest in learning and supporting many functions of a corporate legal team, ranging from transactions, compliance, IP/privacy, entity maintenance, and more. • Strong ability to learn new tools and solve new problems continuously. • Strong ability to be a leader in the setting a high standard of ethics. • An optimistic attitude toward work and people.

🏖️ Benefits

• Stock options