About Dust

Work is being rewritten, and the people holding the pen are the ones who actually run it.

With enterprise-grade governance, flexible model choice, and a collaborative interface for humans and agents to work together, Dust empowers AI Operators at the world’s fastest-moving companies to rewire how work gets done.

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, Vanta 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.

Summary

We're looking for an early-career legal professional to help drive how Legal works at Dust. You'll shape and build legal processes and tools, and you'll get directly involved in a broad range of commercial legal matters, working under the supervision of Dust's lawyers. This role combines legal engineering and process improvement with hands-on experience in commercial contracting, including customer, vendor and partner matters. With a view to qualifying as a solicitor, the role may lead to consideration for an England & Wales training contract, subject to performance, business needs, eligibility and formal approval. A training contract is a potential pathway, not a guarantee.

What you'll do

Drive legal engineering and process improvement

Identify recurring legal bottlenecks and design better ways for the company to get legal support.

Translate legal rules and approved playbooks into practical workflows, templates, structured guidance and automations.

Build and improve legal workflows using Dust and other appropriate tools, including intake, contract review and approval processes.

Test workflows, gather feedback, document how they work and iterate to improve their quality and adoption.

Build appropriate controls into processes, including lawyer review points, escalation paths and safeguards for confidential information.

Get directly involved in commercial legal work

Draft, review and prepare redlines for a wide range of commercial agreements, including NDAs, SaaS agreements, MSAs, order forms, DPAs, vendor contracts and partnership agreements.

Support negotiation and deal execution with Sales, GTM and other teams, including participating in discussions when appropriate and under lawyer supervision.

Help identify legal, privacy, data protection, security and AI-related issues in commercial matters, and bring them to the right lawyer for review.

Conduct legal research, prepare issue summaries and help develop practical options for resolving contract questions.

Progressively take on more responsibility as your experience and judgment develop, while escalating non-standard or higher-risk issues to qualified counsel.

Build the legal team's capabilities

Help create and improve templates, playbooks, legal knowledge resources and tools that allow the wider company to handle routine work more consistently.

Use and improve systems that make matter status, contract obligations and key deadlines visible, rather than relying on manual follow-up.

Work with the General Counsel, Commercial Counsel and external counsel across a varied commercial workload.

Requirements

Every candidate and employee's success is measured against the same three dimensions: Aptitude, Attitude and Agency.

Aptitude

Legal training, such as a law degree, paralegal qualification or equivalent experience.

Some experience in a paralegal, legal assistant, commercial contracts or legal operations role is helpful. We're also open to strong early-career candidates.

Clear legal writing, research and issue-spotting skills, with an interest in commercial law.

Interest or experience in process design, automation, no-code or low-code tools, AI workflows or contract-management systems.