Legal Counsel - PINIONX S.P.C.

*GROUND FLOOR, EQUITY ONLY OPPORTUNITY WITH GLOBAL IMPACT! *

We have been working on something big and transformative for politics and civic engagement. We are preparing to launch our go to market plans and seeking a broadly experienced legal professional, with both practical experience and genuine interest in our mission, to join our leadership team.

The Problem: Civic engagement is way too hard! We want to fix that. And positively impact global democracy and the political-media landscape in the process.

The Mission: Transform civic engagement! Create a platform where everyone can easily find, vote, and track results for pending legislation they care about, at local/state/national/global levels. And one that government customers rely on to improve their civic engagement performance!

Our Vision: Make Pinion the global democracy platform that brings it all together so people everywhere can easily find, vote on, and track the same legislation their elected representatives are voting on, and then see results - so they can easily get engaged, feel their voice is heard and their vote counts. Enable our users and customers to see living results and enlightening analytics for their self, organization, city, county, state, and nation. See how their friends voted, their communities, legislatures, and of course their elected representatives – PLUS candidates hoping to replace them at the next election. Imagine voting for candidates who have voted with you based on your votes on topics/legislation you care about, rather than political spin. Pinion makes engaging with politics easy, engaging and enlightening for better democracy.

The Team: Pinion is a group of motivated professionals who believe in the power of public opinion to improve civic engagement, democracy, and make our world better. We are looking for a team player who is an independent, friendly, and self-motivated professional. Our team is small, currently 20-ish, but growing so we prefer someone who is comfortable in a "many hats" culture where we all are willing to work on whatever needs attention. We are all remote with weekly team meetings to keep up on track and then expect to work asynchronously.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Start Up Corporate Legal Tasks - Advise & manage the typical "block & tackle" activities associated with a startup corporate path.

1. Articles of Incorporation
2. Bylaws
3. Stockholders Agreement (among the founders)
4. Subscription Agreement/Letter
5. Restricted Stock/Vesting Agreement
6. Confidentiality & Intellectual Property Assignment Agreement
7. Stock Restriction Agreement (if we issue restricted stock grants on a vesting schedule)
8. Stock Plan (approved by company’s shareholders)
9. Stock certificates
10. Cap table

• Legal Guidance - Advise the CEO and members of the leadership team on various matters.

• Risk Management - identify legal issues and advise on how to successfully manage them.

• Licensing - Registration, licensing, and authorization for business activities across multiple state and national jurisdictions.

• Funding - advise on funding options including crowd funding, equity crowd funding, angel investment, venture capital, grants, and other potential funding structures (debt or equity). This will include transitioning from current "Slicing Pie" equity tracking methodology.

• Taxation – oversee set up and operations of financial activities and tax compliance.

• Intellectual Property Protection - protect our business to ensure growth and sustainability with advise on the intellectual property to be registered and when/how Non-Disclosure Agreements should be executed.

• Corporate Regulatory Compliance - assist with identifying regulations for our business and provide advice and active management on compliance with required regulatory filings.

• User Agreements and Data Privacy - draft the essential documents required to support our business digital delivery and online marketing strategies include terms and conditions, personal data collection and usage, advise on security and compliance with various regulatory requirements (GDPR, etc.).

• Financial Planning - advise and help create the share structure for the founders and all participants in our “Slicing Pie” equity earning employment model as we transition from start up to ongoing business to public corporation. Help establish the transition pathway to typical start up remuneration policies and spell out the conditions for qualification of salaries, bonuses, and vesting.

• Drafting and Review of Contracts – these will include employment contracts, advertiser and customer agreements, memorandums and partnering agreements.

Experience and Qualifications

• Startup experience – ideally for a multi-faceted digital platform needing to balance various, stakeholder interests. For Pinion those include the public/average citizens, government legislatures, government agencies and departments, legislators/politicians, non-governmental organizations, and companies.

• Experience and genuine interest - in healthy democracy, civic engagement, politics, governance, and legislative processes, especially with respect to engagement and understanding of the public.

A Good Fit -
• People on our project are mostly part time - this is expected at this early stage. That said, an ideal candidate should have the time available and bandwidth required - likely fluctuating between 2 to 10 hours per week, occasionally up to 20. You should be enthused about our mission, and comfortable with our early stage, “boot strapping” startup status. A good fit for us both is crucial for this role!

• Compensation - PLEASE NOTE: We are a true early stage start up (pre-money/pre-revenue) and all working for future equity only (no salaries yet) using the Slicing Pie methodology (www.slicingpie.com) to fairly allocate equity in the company. This role is intended to grow into a full-time salary+bonus+equity position in the future as we gain investment funding and customer revenues.

If all that sounds interesting to you and like a match, please apply here to learn more. We will set up an introductory disussion to share what Pinion is all about - the problem we're solving, our ideas to solve it, and where we are in the journey. Always happy to answer questions so that you can make the best decision.