Senior Counsel, Legal Operations & Compliance

We're hiring a Minnesota-barred attorney to be the senior hands-on lawyer inside our legal operations and compliance function. If you love the craft of legal work — getting it exactly right, at volume, on time — this seat delivers more real ownership and more interesting variety than most attorneys see in a decade: cannabis regulatory work, commercial leases, entity and license management, compliance infrastructure, and daily collaboration with an executive team that moves fast.

You'll join a small, established legal team, working alongside two paralegals whose work you'll help mentor and elevate, with meaningful room to grow as the function scales.

What You'll Do

Own the master renewal calendar: entity renewals, state and local license renewals, and applications — inventoried, deadlined, executed, never late.

Review and abstract commercial leases, maintain the lease database, and support subleasing and landlord communications.

Build and maintain audit-ready compliance records; support regulatory filings, disclosures, and exam response.

Draft, review, and manage contracts, corporate documents, and entity records; help elevate paralegal work with a mentoring mindset.

Support the insurance program: certificate tracking, renewals, COI requirements.

Practice at the frontier: we use AI legal tools daily for drafting, review, and research — with privilege rigorously protected — and we'll invest in keeping you at the cutting edge.

Who Thrives Here

Detail-obsessed attorneys who take real pride in execution and want their work to matter visibly. We're an in-person team by design — on-site in Edina, five days a week — because that's how mentorship and momentum actually happen. Comfort working in a bipartisan, politically diverse environment is part of the culture: we speak purple and work both sides of the aisle in this industry on purpose.

What We Offer

$175,000–$200,000 plus benefits. Modern tools, direct executive access, no bureaucracy, and a growth path as the legal function scales with the company.

Qualifications

JD and active Minnesota bar membership (or imminent admission).

5+ years of legal experience; regulated-industry exposure (cannabis, alcohol, or tobacco) strongly preferred.

Commercial contracts and/or real estate experience preferred; multi unit retail or franchise agreements experience a plus.

Meticulous, organized, autonomous, and genuinely enthusiastic about AI in legal practice.