Role Description The General Counsel will serve as the company’s senior-most legal executive and a member of the executive leadership team. Reporting directly to the CEO and working closely with the Board of Directors, the General Counsel will own the full legal, compliance, governance, and ethics function—providing strategic counsel across all areas of the enterprise while building the legal infrastructure required for Cognito’s continued growth, IPO readiness, and long-term platform leadership. This is a rare opportunity to shape not just legal strategy but the ethical and governance foundations of a company defining a new category in brain health. The General Counsel will be a decisive, business-oriented leader capable of operating with high autonomy, exercising sound judgment in ambiguous and high-stakes environments, and building scalable systems that protect and advance Cognito’s mission. Key Responsibilities - Corporate Governance & Securities - Lead all Board governance matters, including preparation and review of Board and committee materials, resolutions, and corporate minutes. - Own corporate structuring, subsidiary management, and capitalization strategy. - Partner with the CEO and CFO on fundraising, investor relations, and IPO readiness, including SEC reporting infrastructure and public-company compliance frameworks. - Serve as the primary legal interface for the Board, investors, and external governance stakeholders. - Commercial & Strategic Transactions - Lead negotiation and execution of complex commercial agreements, including strategic partnerships, licensing, distribution, vendor, and enterprise customer contracts. - Advise on risk allocation, indemnification structures, and contractual compliance aligned with business objectives. - Drive legal strategy for M&A, collaboration, and licensing activity, including due diligence, deal structuring, and integration. - Build and manage a contract management system and scalable commercial legal infrastructure. - Regulatory & Compliance - Provide executive-level legal leadership within a regulated medical device environment, partnering with Regulatory, Quality, Clinical, and Commercial functions. - Advise on FDA regulatory strategy, healthcare compliance, fraud and abuse considerations, and promotional review processes. - Develop and maintain a robust corporate compliance program, including policies, training, and monitoring frameworks. - Partner with regulatory counsel and external advisors to strengthen regulatory frameworks supporting device approval, label expansion, and international market access. - IP Strategy & Platform Defensibility - Own and develop the company’s intellectual property strategy, including patent portfolio expansion, freedom-to-operate analysis, and competitive IP positioning. - Partner with Patent Counsel and R&D leadership to protect core scientific, technological, and data innovations. - Build enterprise-level strategic protections that support long-term platform defensibility across scientific, technological, and commercial dimensions. - Identify and mitigate IP risks arising from partnerships, licensing, and competitive activity. - Neuroethics & AI Governance - Lead the development of governance for scientific, regulatory, ethical, and data infrastructure. - Establish and chair a neuroethics governance framework, including oversight structures, advisory expertise, and operating principles for responsible cognitive monitoring. - Develop AI explainability and transparency standards governing Cognito’s use of AI-driven therapeutic intelligence and decision-support systems. - Build longitudinal cognitive data governance systems—including data classification, retention, access controls, and secondary use policies—commensurate with the sensitivity of brain health data. - Create patient trust and consent architectures that meet the highest ethical standards and anticipate evolving regulatory expectations around neurotechnology and AI. - Develop responsible AI operating principles and embed them across product, clinical, and commercial functions. - Engage proactively with emerging regulatory frameworks, standards bodies, and policy stakeholders on neuroethics and AI governance. - Data Governance & Privacy - Develop and implement an enterprise data governance infrastructure appropriate for collecting and leveraging sensitive longitudinal brain health data. - Oversee HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable privacy compliance programs. - Advise on data sharing, research partnerships, and secondary data use in alignment with ethical standards and patient consent architectures. - Partner with Data Science, Clinical, and Product teams to ensure data governance frameworks scale with Company strategy and growth. - Legal Operations & Risk Management - Build and lead a high-performing legal function, including hiring, developing, and managing internal legal staff. - Manage outside counsel relationships and legal budgets with rigor and strategic discipline. - Develop scalable legal processes, contract templates, and knowledge management systems. - Identify, monitor, and proactively mitigate enterprise risk across legal, regulatory, and ethical domains. - Report to the Board and Audit Committee on material legal, compliance, and governance matters. Qualifications - D. from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar. - 15+ years of relevant legal experience, with a combination of top-tier law firm and in-house leadership experience. - Demonstrated track record as General Counsel or Deputy/Associate General Counsel at a life sciences, medical device, or health technology company. - Experience in healthcare, medical device, or other highly regulated environments is required; neurotechnology or digital health experience is a strong plus. - Significant experience supporting venture-backed or high-growth companies; IPO, public-company, or capital markets experience is highly preferred. - Demonstrated experience with IP strategy, complex commercial transactions, and advising CEO and Board-level stakeholders. - Experience with, or strong interest in, emerging governance domains including AI ethics, data privacy, and neuroethics. Skills & Capabilities - Exceptional business judgment and the ability to provide decisive, risk-calibrated counsel under uncertainty. - Executive presence, credibility, and influence with Board members, investors, and senior leadership. - Ability to think strategically about legal and governance matters as sources of competitive advantage, not just risk mitigation. - Strong drafting, negotiation, and communication skills across technical, scientific, and business audiences. - Intellectual curiosity and comfort operating in emerging regulatory and ethical domains, including AI governance and neuroethics. - High integrity, discretion, and sound judgment in handling sensitive and confidential information. - Ability to build and lead a team while remaining a hands-on contributor in a fast-paced, resource-constrained environment.

Role Description Sous l'autorité hiérarchique de la Responsable du Département BFMC et sous l'autorité fonctionnelle des deux responsables adjoints de ce département, le titulaire du poste intervient essentiellement sur des dossiers de financements à une clientèle diversifiée. - Structuration juridique du financement et revue de l'offre (term-sheet) - Analyse, revue et participation aux négociations de l'ensemble de la documentation juridique de financement - Rédaction au quotidien des avis juridiques en réponse aux questions posées par les Directions Métiers et les Directions Régionales de la CDC - Analyse de la faisabilité juridique des montages d'opérations en droit privé et, le cas échéant, en droit public - Rédaction de notes juridiques à l'attention des comités d'engagement et participation à ces comités - Participation aux chantiers transversaux - Appui juridique aux autres départements de la DAJCD et entités du groupe - Aide possible sur des sujets liés à l’activité marchés de capitaux - Etudes, conseils et expertises juridiques sur les activités bancaire et financement - Représentation de la DAJCD aux divers comités - Animation de formations Qualifications - Fonctionnaire de cat A ou titulaire d'un diplôme en droit des affaires/financier (de niveau 3ème cycle) - Au moins 5-7 ans d’expérience acquise en service juridique et/ou cabinet d’avocats idéalement dans le domaine financier/bancaire Requirements - Expérience transactionnelle en financement et bonne compréhension des montages financiers - Connaissance des principaux domaines du droit et expertise en droit bancaire et financier, droit des obligations, droit des sûretés - Connaissance du logement social, du médico-social et de leurs règlementations spécifiques - Connaissance des activités marchés de capitaux appréciée - Aptitude à identifier les contraintes associées aux opérations et projets - Capacité au travail en équipe et en mode projet - Qualités rédactionnelles, d'analyse et de synthèse, associées à une aisance dans la prise de parole - Sens de l'implication et sens des priorités - Autonomie et esprit de synthèse

Role Description We are looking for a Senior Counsel - Employment with 5-8 years of experience to advise startups and high-growth companies on employment law, executive compensation, and equity plans at an AI-native law firm that's reimagining how legal services are delivered. You'll be joining a fast-growing team where you can practice the law you love—without billable hours—while helping build scalable legal infrastructure and contributing to product development. What will you be doing? - Independently handling employment law matters including compliance, employment agreements, restrictive covenants, and workplace investigations. - Advising on executive compensation and equity plan design (stock options, RSUs, grant agreements) for startup and growth-stage clients. - Building out templates, playbooks, and precedent libraries to scale employment law expertise across the firm. - Contributing feedback to the product team to help develop AI-powered legal tools that automate routine employment law workflows. - Counseling founders and early-stage teams on contractor classification, multi-state compliance, and HR policy development. Qualifications - 5-8 years of focused employment law experience, ideally with top-tier firm work or leading in-house role. - Deep expertise in executive compensation and equity plan design/administration. - Strong client-facing demeanor—warm, confident communicator who can translate complex legal issues into practical guidance. - Genuine interest in technology and AI tools; willingness to engage with product development and process improvement. - Scrappy, builder mindset—comfortable wearing multiple hats in a startup environment and contributing beyond core legal work. Requirements - Employment Law: Federal and state employment compliance; hiring and onboarding; employment agreements; employee confidentiality and intellectual property agreements; restrictive covenants; workplace investigations; and HR counseling. - Executive Compensation & Equity Plans: Design and adoption of equity incentive plans; ISO and NSO grant agreements and option exercise documents; board and stockholder consents authorizing equity grants; executive and founder employment agreements; and severance agreements and negotiations. - Startup Employment Counseling: Founder and early-team agreements; independent contractor versus employee classification analysis and contractor agreements; FLSA and state wage and hour compliance; multi-state and remote workforce compliance and state-specific obligations; employee handbook and HR policy development; and immigration support.

• Provide legal support and guidance across multiple functions of the company, including senior management • Include broad legal responsibilities with respect to commercial matters for the company • Draft and negotiate MSAs, SOWs, sponsorship and partnership agreements, marketing, media and affiliate agreements, product and technology agreements and other commercial agreements • Work closely with teams across the business technology and product, social/free to play games, marketing, finance and operations