Associate General Counsel, Corporate & Securities

Associate General Counsel, Corporate & Securities

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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We are seeking an Associate General Counsel, Corporate & Securities to help build and operate a scaled corporate governance and securities compliance function. This is a hands‑on role for a lawyer with experience in public‑company caliber reporting, governance, and board processes, including recurring quarterly and annual disclosure cycles, disclosure controls, board, audit committee, and compensation committee materials, and cross‑functional coordination with finance, accounting, auditors, investor relations, communications, and outside counsel.

The ideal candidate has operated in an environment with rigorous reporting timelines and mature governance expectations, and is comfortable owning both the legal judgment and the detailed execution required to support high-quality corporate governance. This role will also support corporate development and strategic transaction matters, including acquisitions, investments, financings, and tender offers, in addition to debt transactions and compliance, equity and capitalization matters, subsidiary governance, and other complex corporate initiatives as the company continues to scale.

Experience with public‑company reporting and governance processes is strongly preferred; experience supporting public‑company readiness or a public‑company transition is a major plus, but not required.

• Help build and operate scalable corporate governance, securities compliance, disclosure readiness, and board processes for a complex, global private company.
• Develop governance and disclosure infrastructure designed to support increasing scale and future public‑company caliber obligations, including reporting calendars, review processes, disclosure controls, diligence and tie‑out procedures, and cross‑functional operating rhythms.
• Prepare and coordinate materials for the Board of Directors and Board committees, including agendas, board books, committee presentations, minutes, consents, resolutions, calendars, and follow‑up items.
• Support the continued maturation of audit committee, insurance regulatory committee, and compensation committee processes, including materials relating to financial reporting readiness, risk oversight, related‑party transactions, equity plans, executive compensation governance, and other committee matters.
• Draft, maintain, and improve corporate governance documents and processes, including board and committee charters, governance policies, D&O questionnaires, related‑party transaction processes, insider trading policies, equity policies, corporate approvals, and governance playbooks.
• Support securities, equity, financing, and capitalization matters, including outstanding securities, cap table processes, equity compensation plans, secondary transactions, private financings, tender offers, investor…