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  • Office:
    San Francisco
    Practice:
    General Corporate
    Emerging Companies and Venture Capital

    Join Wilson Sonsini’ s ECVC practice focusing on emerging companies and the investors who support them! You will lead transactions and interact directly with founders, CEOs, management teams and boards of directors at our company-side clients as well as our VC and other investor-side clients. Candidates with a demonstrated interest in these growth industries and 6-8 years of ECVC experience would make a great addition to our team. As part of this ECVC “SWAT team,” you will foster relationships with the current and future stars of the private technology and life sciences company ecosystem. From pre-seed to pre-IPO, your work will focus on high growth businesses at all stages of their growth. You will counsel management on matters as varied as formation and exits—often on the same day. We also advise venture capital firms and a range of institutional investors investing in emerging growth companies, allowing you the opportunity to gain experience on both sides of the negotiating table.

  • Office:
    San Francisco
    Practice:
    General Corporate
    Emerging Companies and Venture Capital

    Join Wilson Sonsini’ s ECVC practice focusing on emerging companies and the investors who support them! You will lead transactions and interact directly with founders, CEOs, management teams and boards of directors at our company-side clients as well as our VC and other investor-side clients. Candidates with a demonstrated interest in these growth industries and 3-5 years of ECVC experience would make a great addition to our team. As part of this ECVC “SWAT team,” you will foster relationships with the current and future stars of the private technology and life sciences company ecosystem. From pre-seed to pre-IPO, your work will focus on high growth businesses at all stages of their growth. You will counsel management on matters as varied as formation and exits—often on the same day. We also advise venture capital firms and a range of institutional investors investing in emerging growth companies, allowing you the opportunity to gain experience on both sides of the negotiating table.

  • Office:
    Palo Alto
    San Francisco
    Department:
    Marketing, Business Development, and Communications

    The firm has a new opening for an experienced Senior Events Specialist to join our growing Marketing team. If you possess strong organizational and interpersonal skills to assist key stakeholders with high level meeting execution. This role will work directly with the Chief of Staff and practice group leaders to efficiently coordinate a variety of strategic meetings. This position is available as a hybrid work schedule.

  • Office:
    Washington, D.C.
    Department:
    Information Technology

    Wilson Sonsini has an exciting opportunity for you to join our IT team as a Risk & Compliance Incident Response Engineer. This thrilling role will be leading the incident response process and part of an operational after-hours supporting team. This is a wonderful opportunity to support projects and tasks under the general direction of the Director of Information Security Governance, Risk & Compliance. This position is available as a hybrid work schedule.

  • Office:
    San Diego
    Department:
    Corporate
    Executive Assistants

    The firm is actively recruiting for a seasoned Executive Assistant (EA) to join the Corporate team in our San Diego Office. This exciting EA role is a key administrative partner responsible for ensuring the smooth and efficient operation of the corporate practice and for the attorneys they support. . This exciting role will perform specialized and administrative duties for their attorneys, practice area, clients, and the firm, ensuring client services and satisfaction are attained in all areas. This Executive Assistant will assist our world class attorneys and get hands-on experience within corporate law. This position is available as a hybrid work schedule.

  • Office:
    Multiple locations
    Department:
    Finance and Accounting

    The firm has a brand new opening for a seasoned Account Manager to join the Finance department. This is a spectacular opportunity to be part of team that focuses on achieving financial goals. This position will be responsible for managing client account portfolios and will interface extensively with our clients, our partnership and firm senior management. This role is available as a hybrid work schedule and open to any of our US office locations.

  • Office:
    New York
    Department:
    Executive Assistants
    Litigation

    The firm has an immediate opening for an experienced Executive Assistant to join our thriving Litigation department for our New York office. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to find a place in a well-established firm with a supportive office and firm culture. If you pride yourself on being organized, efficient, meticulous, have a strong understanding of the litigation process, and enjoys collaborating with others, then this is the role for you. We also offer a hybrid work schedule for this position.

  • Office:
    Multiple locations
    Department:
    Marketing, Business Development, and Communications

    The firm is seeking a Business Development Manager that will play a pivotal role in proactively generating and supporting the business development and marketing opportunities for select groups of partners in our Corporate Department. The successful candidate will have a wide and deep knowledge base of the financial markets with an emphasis on the early- and late-stage private, capital markets, M&A, and public company ecosystem across all industry verticals; significant Big Law business development experience; and a high comfort level working in an entrepreneurial environment.

  • Office:
    Multiple locations
    Department:
    Information Technology

    The Senior Director of Information Security & Risk Management is responsible for leading and managing key aspects of the firm's information security and risk management program in support of the CISO. This role involves overseeing security engineering, operations, information governance, risk management, records management, and compliance activities, as well as contributing to the firm's overall security posture.

  • Office:
    Boston
    Department:
    Office Administration

    The firm currently has an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated individual to oversee the operations in our Boston office. The Boston office currently has 80 attorneys and staff in multiple practice areas such as Corporate, Patent & innovations, and Technology Transactions. You will be responsible for the daily operations and business functions of the office.

Wilson Sonsini fosters a collaborative, team-oriented working environment in which we provide legal and business advice to some of the world’s most innovative technology, life sciences, and growth companies at all stages of their development. We constantly strive to add experienced and skilled attorneys to make practicing a challenging and rewarding experience.

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