Head of Legal and Projects Job at Carbon America - FrostCarbon Inc., Arvada, CO

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  • Carbon America - FrostCarbon Inc.
  • Arvada, CO

Job Description

Title : VP Legal & Projects

Reports to : CEO

Role Summary
We’re seeking a high-caliber legal executive to join our team as VP Legal & Projects (Director to GC level) . You will lead all legal functions across capital raises, corporate governance, intellectual property, and groundbreaking carbon capture project development . You’ll work side-by-side with the CEO, engineering, finance, and outside counsel to structure deals, manage risks, and drive execution.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and negotiate VC / growth equity / convertible instruments rounds (convertible notes, preferred stock, warrants)

  • Structure, negotiate, and document project finance, JDA, EPC/turnkey, offtake, supply, O&M, performance contracts, guarantees, intercompany agreements

  • Oversee all legal due diligence, manage external counsel, and internal legal operations

  • Build and maintain corporate governance, compliance, board and equity management systems

  • Help lead the company's intellectual property, patent, trademark work

  • Identify legal and regulatory risks in permitting, environmental, industrial regulation, and develop mitigation strategies

  • Draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts, commercial partnerships, licensing, joint ventures

  • Manage and hire legal team (or manage outside specialists: tax, securities, environmental) as the company grows

  • Provide strategic legal advice to leadership and help shape business decisions

Qualifications

  • J.D. degree and active bar license (or eligible)

  • 10+ years of legal experience, ideally with both project finance / energy / infrastructure and venture / capital raise / corporate finance exposure

  • Experience leading and closing multi-party, complex deals

  • Able to run a legal function, manage outside counsel, and scale a team

  • Excellent judgment, strong communication to non-legal stakeholders

  • Comfortable in ambiguity, fast pace, first-of-kind deals

  • Bonus: experience in Colorado / environmental / energy / permitting

Compensation & Incentives

  • Competitive base salary + performance bonus

  • Equity participation / stock options / warrants

  • Benefits, relocation (if needed), etc.

Location
Denver, CO (hybrid) preferred

Job Tags

Full time, Relocation,

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