Commercial Counsel

Overview

This role involves partnering with the Head of Legal to scale the organization’s contracting function. You’ll advise stakeholders on legal issues, lead negotiations for commercial agreements, and build the legal infrastructure that enables fast, consistent contracting as the business grows.

Responsibilities

• Advise stakeholders on legal issues and concepts.
• Lead end-to-end negotiations of high-value MSAs and other commercial agreements with major banks and financial institutions.
• Own negotiations with data and content providers, including data-licensing and partnership agreements.
• Partner closely with Sales, Product, Security, and Operations to structure business-aligned agreements and translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance.
• Implement and manage the organization’s commercial contracting infrastructure, including:
  • Operationalizing legal tech tools to increase efficiency
  • Designing negotiation templates, playbooks, and approval workflows
• Partner with the Head of Legal on high-impact strategic initiatives.

Requirements

• Must be licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction.
• JD from a top law school and 3–6 years of legal experience.
  • Strong preference for training in a technology transactions, IP, or emerging companies practice group and/or in-house experience at a high-growth SaaS, data, or AI company.
• Demonstrated experience owning and closing commercial agreements independently.
• Strong working knowledge of IP licensing, privacy, data-use rights, and AI.
• Prior experience implementing and managing legal tech tools.
• Enthusiasm for building scalable systems and processes from scratch.
• Genuine interest in new technologies, software, and finance.
• Sound commercial judgment and comfort making decisions in a fast-moving startup environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in technology transactions, IP, or emerging companies practice groups.
• In-house experience at a high-growth SaaS, data, or AI company.
• Familiarity with implementing legal technology to support contracting operations.

Compensation & Benefits

• Not specified in the provided job description.

Location

• Not specified in the provided job description.