In-house Legal Counsel

Why this role exists

Revive is scaling across real estate, renovation, financing-adjacent programs, contractor relationships, technology, and multiple operating entities. As the business grows, legal strategy cannot be reactive. We need an in-house legal leader who can help structure the company for scale, reduce liability, strengthen contracts, manage risk, and protect Revive across every part of the business.

This role exists to bring legal judgment closer to the business. You will help Revive build the right entity structures, contract frameworks, compliance processes, dispute strategies, and operational protections needed to grow responsibly. This is a high-impact role for someone who understands real estate, business operations, construction risk, corporate governance, and litigation exposure—and wants to build the legal foundation of a fast-growing company.

What you will do

• Advise leadership on legal risk across real estate, construction, corporate, employment, vendor, technology, and operational matters
• Support entity structuring, subsidiary governance, intercompany arrangements, and liability separation across Revive’s business lines
• Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, vendor agreements, contractor agreements, referral agreements, real estate-related agreements, and operating documents
• Strengthen Revive’s contract templates to improve enforceability, reduce ambiguity, and protect against claims
• Partner with leadership to identify legal risk in new products, programs, partnerships, and business models
• Support dispute prevention and dispute resolution, including demand letters, escalations, settlement strategy, and litigation coordination
• Manage outside counsel efficiently, including scope, cost, priorities, and deliverables
• Advise on real estate transaction risk, construction-related issues, contractor obligations, and customer-facing documentation
• Support corporate governance, board materials, entity maintenance, approvals, consents, and internal legal records
• Help build scalable legal processes, playbooks, templates, and compliance workflows
• Review marketing, sales, and customer communications for legal and regulatory risk
• Partner with HR and leadership on employment-related legal issues, offer letters, policies, compensation plans, and employee documentation
• Maintain a practical, business-minded legal function that protects Revive without slowing the company down

Who you are

• A business-minded attorney who can identify risk without becoming a blocker
• Comfortable operating across multiple legal areas rather than one narrow specialty
• Strong judgment in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Direct, clear, and practical in communication
• Able to translate legal issues into business decisions leadership can act on
• Detail-oriented but commercially practical
• Comfortable building legal systems, templates, and processes from the ground up
• Protective of the company while understanding the pace of a growth-stage business

Qualifications

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school
• Active license to practice law in California, or ability to register as in-house counsel in California
• 5+ years of legal experience, preferably with in-house, real estate, corporate, construction, litigation, or transactional exposure
• Experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts
• Working knowledge of corporate governance, entity structuring, and liability management
• Experience managing disputes, litigation strategy, or outside counsel
• Real estate, construction, proptech, fintech, or startup experience preferred