Head of Legal

About this role

Vaulted is a waste management company that removes carbon. We take organic waste that can pollute our environment above ground and safely inject it ultra deep underground—permanently removing carbon from the atmosphere while protecting local land, air, and water. Vaulted is based in Houston, San Francisco, and Kansas. With a growing team of 70+ people across the country, Vaulted signed the second largest carbon removal offtake ever with Microsoft in July 2025 and is rapidly expanding to new sites.

Vaulted's proprietary technology builds on decades of expertise to deliver safe, durable carbon and waste management solutions now, at scale. Vaulted Deep | Houston, TX (hybrid) | Full-time | Reports to: SVP of Finance The Role You will own the legal workstream for Vaulted’s partnerships end-to-end — from term sheet through definitive documentation through post-closing amendments — as our senior in-house counsel for partnership transactions.

You will lead a two-person legal team, managing a Corporate Counsel and a Contract Specialist (paralegal), and will draft and negotiate directly against sophisticated counterparties (and their counsel), with the expectation that routine and mid-complexity deals are papered fully in-house. What You'll Do Deal structuring and documentation - Draft and negotiate JV agreements, LLC operating agreements, site host and lease agreements, feedstock supply agreements, tipping fee arrangements, and O&M agreements with partners - Structure deals across our multi-entity architecture ensuring JV terms are compatible with existing financing and offtake contracts - Own the term sheet process: translate commercial deal points from the business development team into structures that survive diligence, financing, and audit Risk allocation and specialist issu

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