<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About the role:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Forter is looking for a Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate & Securities to join our fast-growing Legal team. We have a huge opportunity in front of us, and the person we hire for this role will play a key part in ensuring we can seize it. Reporting to our General Counsel, this role will be the sole dedicated corporate and securities lawyer, focusing on corporate, securities, equity, strategic transactions and more, as well as employment and litigation matters. As a dynamic and lean legal team, we all wear a lot of different hats, so expect to get experience in commercial, privacy, product, and intellectual property matters as they arise.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We have a preference for New York based candidates, but are open to hearing from remote candidates throughout the United States (must be based on the East Coast).</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you’ll be doing:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Build and scale the corporate legal function</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Manage our equity program, with the assistance of our Equity Plan Manager (who will report into you)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Drive transaction readiness and other compliance efforts, including the development and maintenance of policies, procedures, and training initiatives</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Provide legal support for corporate transactions, including securities offerings, financings, investments, acquisitions and divestitures and other strategic transactions, and provide oversight on executive compensation administration</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Assist with the preparation and planning for board and committee meetings and the annual meeting of stockholders</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Oversee global corporate administration efforts, including compliance with international, federal, and state laws, maintaining foreign and domestic entities, and executive compensation and stock administration</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Collaborate cross-functionally with other members of the team and other functions including Finance, HR, Marketing, and staff across other departments</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>What you’ll need:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">J.D. degree from an A.B.A. accredited law school; and admitted and member in good standing of a state bar, preferably New York or California</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">5+ years of experience as a corporate and securities counsel. Not required, but a bonus if you have experience working in-house </span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">General corporate transactional experience with a strong background in securities laws; comfortable negotiating and managing corporate transactions (debt and equity financing, secondaries, M&As, JVs)</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Experience working at a high growth technology company, in particular at a B2B software or SaaS company</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">High ethical standards and strong communication skills</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Willingness to work cross-functionally and on projects that are new and/or unfamiliar</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ability to work on multiple issues simultaneously and set appropriate priorities while delivering results efficiently</span></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>About Us:</strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Commerce is evolving faster than the systems built to support it. Agentic AI is redrawing how people buy. Customer expectations have a new ceiling. And bad actors are evolving alongside every advancement. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Forter was built to meet this moment — and stay ahead of it.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are a human-first, AI-built company. Our technology analyzes patterns across a network of over 2 billion shoppers, delivering identity intelligence across the entire commerce journey — from sign-up to checkout to returns — that protects revenue and unlocks great customer experiences simultaneously. With Forter, businesses know who to trust, whether it’s humans or the agents shopping for them. The result: zero friction for the customers who matter. No revenue left behind.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The world's most trusted brands — Nordstrom, Instacart, Priceline, Adobe, ASOS, and eBay among them — rely on Forter to get this right. Since 2013, we've raised $525M from investors including Tiger Global, Bessemer, Sequoia Capital, and Salesforce Ventures, and today we power commer