Last updated 2026-06-18
154 Legal Counsel jobs in San Francisco ()
Browse 154 Legal Counsel jobs across San Francisco, including Commercial Counsel, Senior Counsel, Head of Legal, Senior Corporate Counsel, and Corporate Counsel roles. Listings are updated hourly and include salary data where available.
Legal Counsel jobs in San Francisco
Professionals providing legal advice and services within an organization, ensuring compliance and managing legal risks.
Browse Legal Counsel jobs in San Francisco from companies including The L Suite, OpenAI, Harvey, Lyft, Google, Legora AB, and Roblox.
- Common titles include Commercial Counsel, Senior Counsel, Head of Legal, Senior Corporate Counsel, and Corporate Counsel.
- Roles span mid, senior, entry, and intern levels.
- Recent postings include general counsel, commercial counsel, corporate counsel, legal counsel, and of legal roles.
- Most listed roles are in San Francisco (126), with openings also in San Mateo (9), South San Francisco (4), Alameda (3), and Dublin (3).
- Reported pay for Legal Counsel jobs near San Francisco ranges around $169,475-$287,477 annually (P25-P75 across 106 postings that disclosed pay).
- Hourly Legal Counsel roles near San Francisco pay a median rate of $41/hr based on 4 postings.
- Explore Legal Counsel salaries in California in Salary Explorer.
Legal Counsel jobs in San Francisco
Professionals providing legal advice and services within an organization, ensuring compliance and managing legal risks.
Browse Legal Counsel jobs in San Francisco from companies including The L Suite, OpenAI, Harvey, Lyft, Google, Legora AB, and Roblox.
- Common titles include Commercial Counsel, Senior Counsel, Head of Legal, Senior Corporate Counsel, and Corporate Counsel.
- Roles span mid, senior, entry, and intern levels.
- Recent postings include general counsel, commercial counsel, corporate counsel, legal counsel, and of legal roles.
- Most listed roles are in San Francisco (126), with openings also in San Mateo (9), South San Francisco (4), Alameda (3), and Dublin (3).
- Reported pay for Legal Counsel jobs near San Francisco ranges around $169,475-$287,477 annually (P25-P75 across 106 postings that disclosed pay).
- Hourly Legal Counsel roles near San Francisco pay a median rate of $41/hr based on 4 postings.
- Explore Legal Counsel salaries in California in Salary Explorer.
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Paralegal
Jun 17
San Ramon
mid
Full Time
$75k-115k/yr
1–5 years of paralegal experience, preferably in-house or in a law firm supporting business entity clients.
Collaborate with internal teams to provide practical, business-oriented legal support.
Legal Engineer (In-House)
Jun 17
San Francisco
mid
Full Time
This In-House-focused Legal Engineer role is designed for attorneys with experience working inside companies, partnering with business team…
Strong understanding of the workflows, challenges, and demands faced by in-house legal teams, including balancing legal risk with business…
Senior Counsel - IP (AI)
Jun 17
Alameda
senior
Full Time
$172k-344k/yr
Core job responsibilities include: In close collaboration with various levels of the Operating Division, strategically developing our world…
Our location in Alameda, CA currently has an opportunity for a Senior Counsel, Intellectual Property.
San Mateo
entry
Full Time
$270k/yr
Oversee the preparation of materials, agendas, resolutions, and stockholder compliance structures for our Board of Directors Lead legal str…
You will report directly to the General Counsel and work hand–in-hand with Verkada’s executive leadership as a trusted legal advisor…
San Francisco
entry
$144k-180k/yr
Manage outside counsel in your areas of coverage, including tactical guidance, staffing, case management, budgeting, and alignment with Lyf…
Primary responsibility — meaning, hands-on work, not just supervising outside counsel — for a wide variety of litigation matters, pre-litig…
Junior In-House Counsel
Jun 16
San Francisco
entry
Work cross-functionally with operations, marketing, and product teams to provide timely, practical legal guidance.
Identify and assess legal risks across business initiatives and provide clear recommendations to protect the company's interests.
Associate Attorney
Jun 16
San Francisco
entry
Full Time
$94k-138.5k/yr
This is a junior commercial counsel role designed for an attorney early in their career who is eager to learn,…
Support more senior attorneys on complex and strategic commercial agreements, including by preparing initial reviews, identifying key issue…
Head of Legal
Jun 16
San Francisco
senior
Full Time
This role will own legal strategy and execution across privacy and compliance, commercial contracts, vendor negotiations, and financings.
You’ll work closely with the CEO, CTO, product team, and external counsel to help navigate complex legal decisions while building…
San Francisco
mid
Full Time
$150k-200k/yr
As part of a cross-functional team, the Corporate Counsel will partner closely with business, product, engineering, and leadership to provi…
The Corporate Counsel will help develop foundational legal processes, templates, and systems to ensure legal operations scale alongside the…
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Commercial Counsel @ SentryJun 16
Senior Employment Counsel
Jun 15
San Mateo
senior
Full Time
$225k-275k/yr
It demands deep general legal acumen across employment law–from counseling People Operations on hourly manufacturing worker matters to help…
We’re seeking a Senior Employment Counsel to join Skydio’s world-class Legal team to own employment legal matters for the Company.
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Full Stack Product CounselMay 13
San Francisco
entry
This is a hands-on role at the intersection of regulatory compliance and commercial operations.
Legal and Contract Operations Manage the contract lifecycle across Kikoff's bank partnerships, commercial agreements, vendor contracts, and…
Senior Corporate Counsel
Jun 11
San Francisco
senior
$228k/yr
Assist the Company’s sales and business development teams with various commercial transactions.
Assist with other commercial or corporate matters as needed.
Dublin
mid
Full Time
$177k-232k/yr
We are looking for a creative and pragmatic problem solver to serve as Corporate Counsel 2 - Global Customer Experience…
AS CORPORATE COUNSEL 2 - GLOBAL CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE YOU WILL: Work closely and partner with the Sales, SD and CX…
San Rafael
senior
Full Time
The Director, Corporate Counsel, Early Research & Development will provide proactive legal counsel on a broad range of research, innovation…
Provide practical, risk-based legal counsel to scientific and business stakeholders to support research initiatives, external innovation ac…
Corporate Counsel
Jun 10
San Francisco
mid
$153k/yr
As Corporate Counsel you will help develop our corporate and securities legal strategy, ensuring our legal approach scales with the…
If you're excited to shape the future of design and collaboration, join us!
Senior Counsel
Jun 10
San Francisco
senior
$160k-190k/yr
We empower our senior counsel with autonomy, trust, and the tools to lead high-exposure cases.
As we continue our nationwide growth, we’re seeking accomplished senior attorneys who bring courtroom confidence, leadership, and a passion…
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Associate AttorneyMay 29
San Francisco
mid
$180k-205k/yr
Key Responsibilities: The contracts & legal operations manager will manage and oversee the full contract lifecycle for commercial agreement…
Contract Management: Maintain and organize the company’s contract database and ensure compliance with contract management policies; Track c…
Global Mobility Lead
Jun 9
San Mateo
senior
$206.0k/yr
Manage the full lifecycle of global work permit, visa, and residency applications, coordinating with external legal counsel.
Strong understanding of global mobility principles, including compensation methodologies, tax equalization/protection, and international re…
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Privacy and Security CounselMay 26
San Francisco
mid
About the job As Regulatory and Litigation Counsel, AI Safety, you will join a global team that leads the strategy…
Preferred qualifications: 10 years of experience with legal, regulatory or corporate compliance, including strategically addressing, minimi…
San Francisco
entry
Strong background in private company corporate work, including venture and growth equity financings, preferred stock transactions, secondar…
On the corporate side, you’ll be the company’s primary lawyer for equity and financing transactions, corporate governance, cap table manage…
San Francisco
mid
Contract
$100-200/hr
You’ll work on ambitious, high-impact projects within the legal domain: from evaluating how models handle complex hypothetical cases to ref…
Required Skills & Experience: Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited U.S. law school, with active or inactive Bar admission.
San Francisco
mid
$265k/yr
About the role As Commercial Counsel for Platform & Marketplace at Anthropic, you'll support scaling up go-to-market motions and platforms…
You'll be the trusted senior legal partner to Business Development teams within Anthropic’s Partnerships & Alliances org, shaping how we…
General Counsel
Jun 5
San Francisco
mid
Full Time
About the Role As General Counsel, you will establish and lead the company's legal strategy with the founders across a…
Responsibilities Lead the company's approach to legal and regulatory matters across the U.S. ((SEC, CFTC, FinCEN, OFAC, state MTLs)) and…
San Francisco
entry
Full Time
About the Role We’re growing our world-class Legal team and seek an experienced counsel to lead our global hardware IP…
Advising on hardware IP issues, ranging from patent, trademark, trade secret to open source.
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Counsel, CommercialJun 3
Regulatory Counsel
Jun 5
San Francisco
mid
Full Time
Support with dispute management and litigation and build thoughtful, repeatable, defensible compliance processes and policies alongside the…
In-house regulatory experience.
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Commercial CounselJun 5
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