Paralegal for Startup Law & Knowledge Management (part time, flexible, tech knowledge valued)

Overview

We are looking for a tech-savvy paralegal to help us build a legal knowledge base for early-stage and high-growth companies. Your role will be to review, refine, and validate legal playbooks and templates across
US, UK, and EU jurisdictions.

Your work will directly power an advanced drafting automation tool. You do not need to be a coder or an AI expert but an understanding of software development and AI / LLM prompting is very helpful. We need your legal brain, commercial judgment, and drafting precision to ensure our automated output meets the highest professional standards for startups and small businesses.

Scope of Work

You will be provided with draft playbooks (logic guides) and legal templates. Your task is to review and enhance them to ensure they are market-standard for startups, practical, and jurisdictionally accurate.
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1. Review & Validation of Key Startup Modules You will refine templates and playbooks across the following core areas:

• Corporate & Formation: Founders' agreements, shareholders' agreements, bylaws/articles of association, and board resolutions.
• Employment & HR: Offer letters, PIIA (Proprietary Information and Inventions Assignments), contractor agreements, and employee handbooks.
• Intellectual Property: IP assignment deeds, trademark licensing, and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs).
• Commercial & Privacy: SaaS agreements, MSAs, Letter of Intent, Terms of Service, Privacy Policies (GDPR/CCPA compliant), and DPA templates.
• Fundraising (Optional but valued): Reviewing standard investment vehicles like SAFEs (US), ASAs (UK), and Convertible Notes.
  

2. Commercial & Practical Enhancement

• Identify "Deal Blockers", “Market-Standards”, vs. "Nice-to-Haves": Distinguish between critical risks (e.g., missing IP assignment) and commercial trade-offs.
• Localization: Adapt concepts for specific jurisdictions (e.g., "At-will" employment in US vs. unfair dismissal protections in UK/EU; GDPR vs. US state privacy laws).
• Structure for Automation: Format legal rules clearly (e.g., "If User is in UK, include GDPR Data Processing Addendum; If US, include CCPA text").
  

Skills Required

• Some legal experience: Experience working for startups or small businesses (in-house or firm).
• Multi-Jurisdictional experience:  Knowledge of US, UK, or EU law is required. Ability to cross-reference rules between these regions is highly valued.
• Tech-Savvy: Comfortable using legal research tools and working with structured data or logic-based rules. If you've experimented or even studied software engineering that is a benefit. If you've "vibe coded" your own legal tech tools - that's a benefit. If you regularly use LLMs (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) that is a benefit.

Access to Tools

• Required: You must have access to professional legal research platforms to research current market standards and statutory requirements in target jurisdictions. The deliverable must however be your own original work product.
• Provided: We will provide the base templates, draft playbooks, and the logic structure required for the output.

To Apply please briefly describe your experience with startup clients in the US, UK, or EU.