General Counsel

We call them AI operators: the employees inside companies who build, deploy, and run AI agents for their teams, without waiting for someone to hand them a tool. Dust is the platform they choose to rewire how their company works.

With 70%+ weekly active users, people stick with Dust as much as they do with Slack and Notion. We don't get piloted and shelved. We land once, and spread. We're at an exciting stage of our journey, and growing fast.

We're serving great customers like Datadog, 1Password, Cursor, Clay, and Persona, and aim to x5 our growth by the end of 2026.

Dust is backed by Sequoia with a determined team of optimists (coming from Stripe, OpenAI, and Stanford) who like to focus on users, ship fast, and don't take themselves too seriously while doing so. The Generalist named us among the Future 50.

As Dust's General Counsel, you'll be the architect of our legal infrastructure during a critical hyper-growth phase. You'll build the Legal function from the ground up, serving as an integral thought partner to leadership while establishing scalable legal processes that support our ambitious revenue growth trajectory of x5 this year.

This is a hands-on role that combines strategic legal guidance with operational excellence. You'll work cross-functionally with Sales, GTM, Operations, and People teams to drive deal velocity, risk management, and legal discipline across our Paris and San Francisco operations while navigating the complex AI and privacy landscape.

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  Review, draft, and negotiate a wide range of agreements, including SaaS (cloud and on-prem), DPA, channel, partnership, and vendor contracts

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  Partner closely with the sales and revenue teams to drive deals to close

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  Deliver creative, risk-based solutions that unlock revenue and protect the business

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  Handle disputes with partners when needed and manage partner relationships, including zero data retention policies with AI labs

• Provide pragmatic legal advice on GDPR, international data transfers, CCPA, and other global privacy frameworks

• Advise cross-functional teams on the legal implications of AI in product development and go-to-market strategy

• Help set a scalable, forward-looking approach to AI and privacy governance

• Navigate emerging AI regulations across EU and US markets as we serve increasingly regulated customers (finance, healthcare, telecom)

• Own and lead Dust's entire legal function as we grow from 80 to 150+ employees, working hands-on with stakeholders across the company to solve legal questions in real-time

• Design and implement a self-serve legal portal with scalable templates, playbooks, and training materials to support a fast-scaling global team

• Operate across both US and French legal environments, supporting business activities in our two primary markets.

• Define and manage Dust's legal external counsels strategy

• Support corporate governance matters including Board resolutions, shareholder agreements, and fundraising transactions

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• Our product constitution, a story about our mission

• Agents at work - Latent Space, podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu, 2024

• LLMs reasoning and agentic capabilities over time - dotAI, podcast with our cofounder, Stanislas Polu, 2024