About HUD

HUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, as well as a marketplace to sell these to frontier labs through the HUD marketplace. Our platform is used by frontier labs, Fortune 500 companies, and startups. We’ve raised $16M from top VCs and were YC W25.

About the role

We’re looking for a Legal Operations Lead to build and own the systems, processes, and commercial frameworks enable HUD to move more quickly as our volume and complexity of agreements grows.

This is not a traditional in-house counsel role. We’re looking for someone who combines strong legal and contracting judgment with an operator’s instinct for systems, tooling, and leverage. You should be comfortable handling a contract directly one day and redesigning the process so it barely needs manual intervention the next.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day legal operations - drafting and negotiating SOWs, chasing signatures, and monitoring timelines for invoicing will be 25-50% of your time

• Draft, review, and negotiate routine commercial agreements across buyers, data vendors, and other partners, incl