# Head of Legal at Arbor Energy

> United States · Director+ · Other · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Aarborenergy%3A4396532009 (read 2026-11-15).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Arbor Energy](https://alderhq.app/companies/arbor-energy)
- Location text: El Segundo, CA; El Segundo, CA
- Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: El Segundo, CA; El Segundo, CA")
- Posted: 2026-09-04 (71 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-04 · last verified: 2026-11-10
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/arborenergy/jobs/4396532009

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: not posted
- Market band for similar posted roles (Los Angeles, n 305): p25 $165k, median $200k, p75 $238k

## Description (the employer's text)

### About Us

At Arbor Energy & Resources Corporation ("Arbor Energy"), we’re creating technology to power our lives while protecting the planet that sustains them. Our advanced power systems deliver clean, reliable baseload electricity with zero operating emissions—modular, fuel-flexible, and engineered for the realities of today’s energy demand. At the core is a supercritical CO₂ turbine with integrated carbon capture, designed to bring carbon-neutral power online quickly at meaningful scale.

Our team includes aerospace engineers, combustion experts, and systems thinkers with a shared goal: to build technology worthy of the world we want to live in. While many of us began our journeys looking to the stars, we’re applying that expertise here at home to deliver dependable, emission-free baseload power and a future of lasting abundance.

If you share our values and are drawn to rigorous work with lasting impact, we’d love to learn more about you. Come build what the future will run on.

Steward our planet: We build for tomorrow, ensuring every bolt we tighten and every hand we lend leaves our environment stronger than we found it.

Lead with Love: We champion the success of our people, partners, and planet, nurturing excellence through camaraderie and rigor.

Explore the Uncharted: We embrace the unknown with curiosity, using courage and discipline to transform uncertainty into opportunity.

### Role Overview

As Arbor Energy’s first senior in-house legal leader, this is a highly hands-on role reporting the COO. You’ll serve as a strategic advisor to the executive team, personally lead our most consequential legal work, build repeatable processes for recurring needs, and determine when specialized outside counsel is required. You’ll set functional priorities, manage the legal budget and external firms, and build internal legal capability over time.

The role spans intellectual property, corporate governance and financing, complex commercial and project transactions, regulatory and compliance matters, and enterprise risk. You’ll help the company move from technology development to first-of-a-kind deployment and scale manufacturing while protecting the company’s core assets and enabling the business to move quickly and responsibly.

### Responsibilities

Legal Strategy and Functional Leadership

- Develop and execute Arbor's legal strategy in partnership with the COO and executive leadership team, aligned with the company's technical and commercial objectives.
- Advise the executive team on significant legal, governance, fiduciary, financing, and enterprise-risk matters.
- Manage the legal budget and set functional priorities, decision authorities, and escalation thresholds.
- Personally lead high-priority matters; manage and develop legal resources, including outside counsel, legal-operations support, and future direct reports, with clear accountability and performance expectations.
Financing and Corporate Governance

- Lead legal strategy and execution for equity, debt, project-finance, and other strategic capital transactions, including diligence and coordination with internal stakeholders and external counsel.
- Advise the executive team and Board on transaction structure, financing terms, investor rights, disclosure obligations, equity-compensation matters, and the long-term implications of capital decisions.
- Lead Board and committee governance, including minutes, consents, resolutions, delegations of authority, corporate records, required filings, and compliance with Arbor's charter, investor agreements, and securities obligations.
Commercial, IP, and Project Matters

- Structure and negotiate revenue-generating agreements, including power purchase agreements, capacity reservations, services, licensing, and development partnerships.
- Develop contracting and risk-allocation strategies for first-of-a-kind deployment, addressing performance, warranties, acceptance, schedule, intellectual property, indemnities, and limitations of liability.
- Structure and negotiate strategic supplier, engineering, construction, and manufacturing agreements addressing capacity, schedule, quality, tooling, intellectual property, warranties, change control, and supply continuity.

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