Paralegal

About EnergyHub

EnergyHub empowers utilities and their customers to create a clean, distributed energy future. We help consumers turn their smart thermostats, EVs, batteries, and other products into virtual power plants that keep the grid stable and enable higher penetration of solar and wind power.

About the Opportunity 

EnergyHub is seeking an experienced paralegal to join our legal team. The paralegal will work with departments across the company to provide general transactional legal support, coordinate and manage the department’s workflow process, and maintain various corporate and compliance records.   The legal team supports all aspects of the company’s business operations, including commercial contracts, intellectual property, compliance , corporate development, and strategic activities.  If you  like the idea of learning about a growing software business and being on the cutting edge of climate tech, this might be the job for you. 

Main Responsibilities: What you’ll do

• Independently managing and administering the legal intake process, using independent judgment to assign, track, and resolve a wide range of legal matters
• Assist the legal team in managing the full-cycle contract management process, including drafting, reviewing, facilitating approval and signature, uploading, and retrieving agreements
• Developing and driving operational project and process improvement initiatives, policies, and procedures to support legal department and business
• Maintaining and improving existing resources and creating new resources to support internal compliance, including contract summaries and post-closing transaction check-lists
• Managing corporate records, including contracts, compliance requirements, insurance policies, and intellectual property portfolio 
• Assisting attorneys with diligence projects and legal research requests
• Responding to administrative requests (e.g., vendor forms, notarization, RFP requirements, requests for accounting confirmations)
• Supporting work with outside counsel as necessary including managing outside counsel invoices and budgeting
• Managing transaction summaries and signature requests
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills and Experience: What you need

• 5+ years paralegal experience in a corporate, commercial, in-house and/or large law firm environment, with technology industry experience a plus
• Strong ability to operate independently and take initiative, own projects, and juggle and prioritize multiple projects in a demanding, fast-paced environment
• Highly organized with superior attention to detail
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Familiarity with a wide range of legal matters including contracts, IP, regulatory and compliance issues
• Tech-savvy and highly skilled in multiple software platforms and able to master new technologies quickly and troubleshoot issues independently

Why work for EnergyHub?

• Collaborate with outstanding people: Our employees work hard, do great work, and enjoy collaborating and learning from each other. 
• Make an immediate impact: New employees can expect to be given real responsibility for bringing new technologies to the marketplace. You are empowered to perform as soon as you join the team!
• Gain well rounded experience: EnergyHub offers a diverse and dynamic environment where you will get the chance to work directly with executives and develop expertise across multiple areas of the business.
• Work with the latest technologies: You’ll gain exposure to a broad spectrum of  IoT, SaaS and machine learning obstacles, including distributed fault-tolerance, device control optimization, and process modeling to support scalable interaction with disparate downstream APIs. 
• Be part of something important: Help create the future of how energy is produced and consumed. Make a positive impact on our climate.
• Focus on fun: EnergyHub places high value on our team culture. Happy hours and holiday parties are important to us, but what’s also important is how our employees feel every single day. 

Company Benefits

EnergyHub offers a generous benefits package including 100% paid medical for employees and a 401(k) with employer match. We offer a casual environment, the flexibility to set your own schedule, a fully stocked fridge and pantry, free Citi Bike membership, secure bike rack, gym subsidy, paid parental leave, and an education assistance program.

EnergyHub is an Equal Opportunity Employer

EOE, Including Disability/Vets. Reasonable accommodations are available for individuals with disabilities throughout the application process. If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application process, please contact [email protected].

In connection with your application, we collect information that identifies, reasonably relates to or describes you (“Personal Information”). The categories of Personal Information that we may collect include your name, government-issued identification number(s), email address, mailing address, other contact information, emergency contact information, employment history, educational history, and demographic information.  We collect and use those categories of Personal Information about you for human resources and other business management purposes, including identifying and evaluating you as a candidate for potential or future employment or future positions, recordkeeping in relation to recruiting and hiring, conducting analytics, and ensuring compliance with applicable legal requirements and Company policies.  By submitting your application, you acknowledge that we may retain some of the personal data that you provide in your application for our internal operations such as managing our recruitment system and ensuring that we comply with labor laws and regulations even after we have made our employment decision.

Notice To Third Party Agencies:

EnergyHub understands the value of professional recruiting services.  However, we are not accepting resumes from recruiters or employment agencies for this position. In the event we receive a resume or candidate referral for this position from a third-party recruiter or agency without a previously signed agreement, we reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to you.