General Counsel
You are ClearBeam's chief legal and regulatory officer and a founding member of the executive team. You stand up the entire legal, regulatory, and governance function from a clean sheet, the architecture that lets a multi-state CLEC move fast, file accurately, finance ambitiously, and operate within bright lines.
This is a builder's seat. You personally own the matters that determine whether ClearBeam can light a market, draw a facility, and stand behind its 911 commitment. You turn a national buildout vision into licenses held, agreements signed, debt closed, and risk contained. Early on you work hands-on across every domain below. Over time you build and lead the team and outside-counsel network that scales with us.
In your first year, success looks like this: every required federal and state license, tariff, and filing current and tracked on a single compliance calendar; a repeatable new-market playbook (entity, certification, interconnection, pole access) the team can run on schedule; ClearBeam's first major debt facilities closed cleanly with covenants the business can live inside; a live contracting system with templates and clear authority levels; and a defined legal function with a vetted outside-counsel bench and a plan to scale.
What you'll do:
- Telecom and regulatory: lead all FCC matters, including Form 499 filings, USAC and Universal Service Fund administration, CPNI, robocall mitigation and STIR/SHAKEN attestation, 911 and E911 obligations, and number administration (NPAC, iconectiv SPID, OCN).
- State strategy and filings: direct dockets and party-of-record positions before the Washington UTC, the California PUC, and additional commissions as the footprint grows, and secure CLEC certifications, tariffs, price lists, and ETC designations across the portfolio.
- Interconnection and access: negotiate and administer interconnection agreements with incumbents, including successor-in-interest matters, plus the pole-attachment and network-access agreements that open new markets.
- Corporate governance: serve as corporate secretary and steward the multi-entity architecture, file the new Delaware C-corp parent and the state operating companies, maintain board governance and public-benefit reporting, advise on entity formation and foreign qualification, and counsel the affiliated charitable foundations.
- Finance and capital markets: serve as lead legal partner on the debt-financed capital strategy, structuring and closing facilities with institutional lenders, federal lending programs, state green banks, and private-placement bond investors, and owning covenants, security and collateral, disclosure, and ongoing compliance.
- Commercial contracts: build the contracting playbook (templates, approval thresholds, a clean repository) and negotiate vendor and equipment supply, construction, RSP and wholesale arrangements with public utility districts, anchor-tenant and community partnerships, master service agreements, and real-estate leases including central-office facilities.
- Labor and employment: administer and advise on the CWA High Road Agreement and the joint apprenticeship training trust, and oversee prevailing-wage and multi-state employment compliance across hiring, classification, compensation, and workplace policy.
- Compliance, privacy, and risk: own enterprise risk and insurance, litigation and dispute management, data-privacy and security compliance (CPNI, customer data, and state regimes such as the CCPA), trademark and IP protection, and federal and defense-adjacent frameworks such as CMMC.
What we're looking for:
- J.D. and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar, with the ability to register or be admitted in Washington and other operating jurisdictions as needed.
- Substantial experience as a telecommunications, regulatory, or transactional attorney for a carrier, ISP, utility, or comparably regulated enterprise.
- Command of FCC and state-PUC regulatory practice: CLEC certification, interconnection, USF and USAC, and 911 obligations.
- Proven experience leading or closing significant debt or capital-markets transactions.
- Track record building or substantially scaling a legal and compliance function, including selecting and managing outside counsel.
- Sound judgment, precision, and the discipline to keep a complex, multi-state, multi-entity operation inside clean lines while moving at startup speed.
- Preferred: multi-state and multi-entity corporate experience, and familiarity with public-benefit governance and mission-driven structures.
- Preferred: exposure to organized-labor agreements, prevailing-wage regimes, or apprenticeship trusts.
- Preferred: background with federal lending programs, green-bank financing, or private-placement bonds, and with privacy, data-security, or defense-adjacent compliance frameworks.
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