• Report directly to the COO, act as a strategic thought partner for the full leadership team. • Assume responsibility for several functions that are currently heavily outsourced to external counsel, including support of the investment process, negotiation of commercial agreements, corporate governance, compliance, and risk management, while overseeing and managing outside counsel relationships. • Lead negotiation of commercial agreements that accompany or follow investments. • Advise internal stakeholders on risk, enforceability, and global contracting standards. • Develop scalable templates and playbooks to streamline repeat transactions. • Lead all legal aspects of venture investments, including legal due diligence, term sheets, equity financing documents, shareholder agreements, side letters, and investor rights agreements. • Structure transactions to align financial returns with strategic objectives. • Partner with investment professionals on valuation, risk allocation, governance rights, and exit strategy. • Manage and coordinate external counsel efficiently and cost-effectively. • Provide guidance on governance, board matters, follow-on financings, and liquidity events. • Support M&A, secondary transactions, and exit processes. • Help team navigate legal questions regarding portfolio companies with Toyota & its affiliates. • Oversee corporate policies, support in board matters, and internal approvals. • Manage NDAs, vendor agreements, contractor agreements, and employment-related matters (hiring, terminations, and employee documentation), in conjunction with the Woven by Toyota HR team. • Advise on privacy and data security compliance (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable regimes). • Provide oversight on IP matters. • Advise on litigation exposure, product liability, commercial disputes, insurance, and risk mitigation.

Location: Remote Compensation: $150-180k + Equity Start Date: ASAP About us Scientific Safety Alliance, or SSA, exists to Accelerate Science. Delightfully. SSA is growing at an exceptional rate and is rapidly rising Inc Magazines 2024 and 2025 list of fastest growing privately held companies. How fast? In a little over 2.5 years, we have acquired 19 companies and our growth is only accelerating. What makes SSA special? SSA is a 100% founder and employee-owned company. Every team member has a stake in the outcome, and everyone’s performance directly impacts the value of their ownership. We have grown from a handful of regional teams into one of the fastest-growing companies in the United States through a network of specialized local service companies. We serve the life sciences world, including pharmaceutical, biotech, hospital, and research facilities that rely on us to keep their controlled environments compliant and ready for discovery. Our mission is simple: remove the friction so our customers can focus on innovation. The Opportunity: General Manager The General Manager – North Carolina is the senior leader responsible for the overall performance, strategy, and growth of the North Carolina operating company. This role carries full P&L ownership, operational leadership, cultural stewardship, and strategic execution responsibility. Reporting directly to the COO and partnering closely with executive leadership, the General Manager will drive revenue growth, operational excellence, customer satisfaction, and team development while aligning local operations with SSA’s broader strategic objectives. A strong Lean leadership background is required for this role. The General Manager must have demonstrated success implementing and sustaining Lean principles to drive measurable operational improvement, cost optimization, and cultural transformation. How You Will Make an Impact Strategic Leadership & Business Growth • Develop and execute the strategic plan for the North Carolina entity in alignment with SSA’s corporate objectives. • Drive revenue growth through customer retention, expansion, and business development initiatives. • Identify and capitalize on market opportunities within regulated industries. • Support integration of future acquisitions as needed. Full P&L Ownership • Own and manage the complete profit and loss performance of the North Carolina business. • Develop annual budgets, forecasts, and long-term financial plans. • Monitor revenue, margins, operating expenses, and cost structure to ensure profitability targets are met. • Drive financial accountability across leadership and functional teams. Operational Excellence & Lean Leadership • Lead the implementation and sustainability of Lean systems across all functions. • Drive continuous improvement initiatives using tools such as Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, 5S, and root cause analysis. • Establish a culture of operational discipline, waste elimination, and process standardization. • Optimize field operations, workforce planning, scheduling, and resource allocation. • Improve operational efficiencies while maintaining exceptional service quality. • Personally champion Lean thinking as a core operating philosophy. Team Leadership & Culture • Build, coach, and develop a high-performing leadership team. • Foster a culture of accountability, ownership, and continuous improvement. • Serve as a change agent to drive operational and cultural transformation. • Ensure talent development and succession planning. Performance & Data-Driven Management • Establish and monitor KPIs aligned with financial and operational priorities. • Use data-driven insights to guide decision-making and continuous improvement. • Report performance metrics and strategic updates to executive leadership. • Drive accountability for results across the organization. What We’re Looking For • MBA or advanced degree preferred. • 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in operations or technical services. • Demonstrated, hands-on Lean leadership experience required. • Proven track record of implementing Lean methodologies that resulted in measurable operational and financial improvement. • Prior full P&L ownership experience. • Strong financial acumen and analytical skills. • Experience leading cross-functional teams in high-growth environments. • Strategic thinker with a hands-on execution mindset. • Strong communication and influencing capabilities. • High adaptability and resilience in complex business environments. Benefits • Equity ownership in SSA • 401k Match • 100% paid Medical Dental & Vision insurance • Health insurance (100% for employee and family) • Life insurance • Generous Paid time off • Parental leave If you have the skills we are looking for, and want to be a part of the rocket ship we are building, we want to hear from you!!

About Remote Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote. With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role. We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform. If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work! What this job can offer you This is an exciting time to join Remote and make a personal difference in the global HR-tech space. We're seeking a talented and seasoned commercial contract lawyer with extensive experience in sales, partnership, and procurement transactions in HR Tech and/or SaaS—as well as leading and guiding a team of up-and-coming commercial lawyers. You should be passionate about our team's mission, which is: to deliver pragmatic and innovative legal solutions for Remote's products and stakeholders while protecting Remote from unacceptable risk. Remote's well-established Legal team is a group of friendly, talented, highly motivated lawyers from many different countries, bringing a wealth of diverse experience. As Remote expands its global footprint, each new country brings unique legal challenges. The Legal Team ensures the legal soundness of our business models, manages contractual agreements with clients and their staff (the employees we hire under our "Employer of Record" service—our "external employees"), and oversees data protection compliance, among other areas. This is a director-level role managing approximately 3-5 reports. Key priorities for this role include: - Serving as the directly responsible individual (DRI) for Commercial Legal and leading the team to provide excellent legal support for sales, partnership, and vendor contract reviews and negotiations. Ensure sufficient and timely support at month-end and quarter-end. - Empowering GTM teams to go upmarket and close enterprise-level customers by upgrading commercial terms and templates, simplifying sales contracting processes, and proactively training GTM teams in close collaboration with Legal and GTM stakeholders. - Providing strategic support to Partnership teams on deal negotiations and bespoke terms drafting that captures business intent while maintaining commerciality for timely deal closure. - Collaborating with revenue operations and legal operations teams to automate workflows and leverage AI for increased contracting efficiency. Maintain the CLM system and relevant processes to ensure stakeholder synergy, and capture valuable commercial contracting metrics to inform better decision-making by GTM and Finance stakeholders. What you bring - Qualified lawyer in your location (mandatory) - Technically an excellent commercial contracts lawyer. (Be prepared to give examples of difficult negotiations and specific legal points you’ve tackled.) - Previous in-house experience in similar roles - Passionate about working for a tech scale-up, specifically in HR-tech - Outstanding team leader who mentors, motivates, and brings people together - Excellent ability to build trusted relationships with key stakeholders in a fully remote environment. - Excited about using AI to work smarter, faster, and more creatively. - Solves problems rather than just escalating them - Fearless to speak your mind, break things, and learn from mistakes - Low ego - Excellent analytical and organizational skills - Ability to multi-task and switch between projects on short notice - Proficiency in—or demonstrated ability to learn—Remote's tech stack, including communication application (Slack), contract management system (Coupa), documentation sources (Notion, Google Drive, etc.), and task management system (Notion) - Fluent in written and spoken English - Remote work experience is not required but considered a plus Key responsibilities The four points listed above provide a good overview of the key responsibilities for this role. In performing these responsibilities, you will be expected to: - Guide, mentor, and nurture a team, including proactively providing timely and constructive feedback to team members - Build strategic relationships with GTM stakeholders and increase Legal's influence and voice in important discussions about the company's commercial strategies - Identify company-wide legal issues and work with key internal stakeholders and external partners to implement efficient and effective solutions - Take on a leadership role in cross-team legal projects, collaborating with Remoters from other teams (GTM, Tax, Finance, Product, etc.) and the Legal Team to ensure projects are completed on time with high-quality deliverables - Institute best practices and lead training to help the Legal Team function more efficiently, expand knowledge base and expertise, and make legal advice easier to access and use for both other Remoters and clients - Seek to improve team efficiencies through close collaborations with other support teams such as Legal Ops and Revenue Ops - Manage external local counsel as needed - Assist with other legal, advisory, regulatory, and compliance work as required Practical - You'll report to: Senior Director of Legal - Team: Legal - Location: US or UK - Start date: As soon as possible Application process - (async) Profile review - Interview with recruiter - Interview with hiring manager - Written exercise - Interview with Legal team members - Interview with stakeholder - Interview with execs and Bar Raiser interview to happen simultaneously - Reference check - (async) Offer #LI-DNP Remote's Total Rewards philosophy is to ensure fair, unbiased compensation and fair equity pay along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate. We do not agree to or encourage cheap-labor practices and therefore we ensure to pay above in-location rates. We hope to inspire other companies to support global talent-hiring and bring local wealth to developing countries. At first glance our salary bands seem quite wide - here is some context. At Remote we have international operations and a globally distributed workforce. We use geo ranges to consider geographic pay differentials as part of our global compensation strategy to remain competitive in various markets while we hiring globally. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location, and our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay for the successful candidate in this role is dependent upon many factors such as location, transferable or job-related skills, work experience, relevant training, business needs, and market demands. The base salary range may be subject to change. At Remote, we foster internal mobility as a key element of our culture of employee growth and development, supported by a compensation philosophy that guarantees pay equity and fairness. Therefore, all compensation changes associated with an internal move will be reviewed by the Total Rewards & People Enablement team on a case by case basis. The annual salary range for this full-time position is $150,000—$290,000 USD Benefits Our full benefits & perks are explained in our handbook at remote.com/r/benefits. As a global company, each country works differently, but some benefits/perks are for all Remoters: - work from anywhere - flexible paid time off - flexible working hours (we are async) - 16 weeks paid parental leave - mental health support services - stock options - learning budget - home office budget & IT equipment - budget for local in-person social events or co-working spaces How you’ll plan your day (and life) We work async at Remote which means you can plan your schedule around your life (and not around meetings). Read more at remote.com/async. You will be empowered to take ownership and be proactive. When in doubt you will default to action instead of waiting. Your life-work balance is important and you will be encouraged to put yourself and your family first, and fit work around your needs. If that sounds like something you want, apply now! How to apply - Please fill out the form below and upload your CV with a PDF format. - We kindly ask you to submit your application and CV in English, as this is the standardised language we use here at Remote. - If you don’t have an up to date CV but you are still interested in talking to us, please feel free to add a copy of your LinkedIn profile instead. We will ask you to voluntarily tell us your pronouns at interview stage, and you will have the option to answer our anonymous demographic questionnaire when you apply below. As an equal employment opportunity employer it’s important to us that our workforce reflects people of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences and this data will help us to stay accountable. We thank you for providing this data, if you chose to. Please note we accept applications on an ongoing basis.

About WestEd As a community of over 1,400 researchers, practitioners, consultants, and administrative professionals from all backgrounds and life experiences, we are committed to making a qualitative difference in the lives of youth, children, and adults. We conduct and apply research, develop evidence-based solutions, and provide consulting services across the country in both rural and urban communities to improve equitable outcomes for individuals from infancy through adulthood. Serving as trusted partners in the areas of education, health, and justice, our teams enhance capacity within communities and school districts to prioritize impact — asking the right questions, customizing methodologies, developing relevant tools, and implementing best practices specific to a diverse range of stakeholder needs. WestEd supports individual initiative, excellence, and hard work of all individuals in our hiring and work practices. WestEd complies with all applicable federal and state anti-discrimination laws, as well as OFCCP requirements. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, or status as a protected veteran. SPECIAL NOTICE REGARDING THE WORK LOCATION OF THIS POSITION—Although WestEd provides the option of working at one of its facilities for employees, many roles allow employees to choose to work remotely for their own convenience. The decision to allow remote work at the employee's convenience is based on the requirements of the position or project in question. Position Overview As a State General Supervision Systems Specialist (Program Associate II) within WestEd’s Center for Education Systems, you will help support state education agencies (SEAs) to effectively implement the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and improve the educational experiences of students with disabilities. States play a critical role in supporting and enforcing local implementation of IDEA, ensuring access to a free appropriate public education (FAPE) for children with disabilities, and improving student outcomes. States turn to WestEd to help them improve their general supervision systems to reach these goals. The work of this position will focus on supporting SEAs to improve and document their general supervision system. Specifically, the position will assist states to critically review and refine policies, procedures, and practices related to their monitoring and data systems and ensure alignment with IDEA and related guidance and requirements from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP). You will be responsible for collaborating with WestEd colleagues to review state special education policies, procedures, and practices for alignment with federal expectations under IDEA, craft recommendations for improvement, assist states to create and document special education policies and procedures including those related to monitoring and data, and design and lead professional development and/or coaching sessions for state department staff around IDEA requirements and systems improvement. You will also use your content expertise in special education to develop proposals to expand this important work across the country. Core Focus Areas - Evaluate state general supervision policies, procedures, and practices to ensure compliance with IDEA and OSEP requirements and expectations. - Assist states to create and document general supervision policies, procedures, and practices - Generate recommendations for state systemic improvement.  - Design and facilitate professional development and coaching experiences for state special education leadership and staff.  - Contribute to business development opportunities by developing client relationships and supporting the identification and pursuit of potential partners. What We’re Looking For: To help us make a positive impact on state systems, we’ll need someone who has the following: - Master’s or graduate degree in education, preferably special education. - At least five years of experience in special education, preferably at the federal or state level. - Knowledge of IDEA and state general supervision policies, procedures, and practices at the federal or state level (with an emphasis on state monitoring systems). - Knowledge of/experience with one or more of the following: - IDEA implementation at the federal, state, or local level - OSEP guidance and requirements - State general supervision systems - State monitoring systems - State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR) data collection and reporting processes - 618 data collection and reporting processes - State dispute resolution systems - State fiscal systems - State technical assistance and professional development systems - Experience designing and facilitating professional development experiences (workshops, institutes, coaching programs) for adult learners, both virtual and in-person. - Powerful presentation and facilitation skills (virtual and in-person) and comfort working with large and small groups. - Ability to demonstrate evidence of a deep commitment to supporting the development of policies, procedures, and practices across all levels of the education system that ensure the success of students with disabilities. Qualifications and Other Skills: - Excellent oral and written communication skills. - Ability to facilitate and help groups reach consensus. - Effective building and nurturing of professional relationships in and outside of the organization. - Experience in resource development, proposal development, and report writing. - Commitment to ensuring high quality products and customer service. - Ability to handle multiple priorities under time-restricted conditions. - Necessary application skills: Excel, Word, PowerPoint & Google products. This position requires some travel (about once a month) for work in the U.S. *Note: Visa sponsorship is not available for this position. Successful candidates must be authorized to work in the United States. WestEd conducts a criminal background check and education verification for all new hires. Any offers of employment will be contingent on receiving a clear background check in accordance with applicable law. SALARY AND BENEFITS: The full salary range for this position, WestEd level (10), is $92,000 to $143,000, but WestEd does not typically hire at or near the top of the salary range. The typical hiring range for this role is $92,000 to $115,000. The actual offer considers multiple factors, including but not limited to education, experience, internal equity, and other organizational needs.  In addition to the base salary, benefits include: · 15% contribution toward retirement effective day 1 of employment and immediately 100% vested · Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts and Health Savings Account option · All health/welfare benefits are effective the first of the month following the hire date · PTO: 19 days (increases to 21 days beginning the third year of employment), 12 paid holidays · Life Insurance: value of 3x gross salary, max of 500k · Opportunities for annual merit-based performance increases + annual incentives · Professional development opportunities & mentorship program  For more details about our benefits, go to: https://www.wested.org/work-at-wested/#benefits WestEd is a Drug Free Employer and maintains a drug-free workplace. #LI-Remote   #Circa-Remote Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)