In-House Commercial Counsel

Overview

An influencer-marketing technology platform is seeking its first In-House Counsel to serve as the primary legal resource and lead the commercial contracting function. This role focuses on client-side negotiations, managing agreements from initial review through signature after business terms are established. The ideal candidate is a practical, commercially minded transactional attorney who works with urgency, understands the business drivers, and can provide clear legal recommendations to executive leadership.

Responsibilities

• Own commercial contracting: draft, review, redline, negotiate, and close client, agency, and customized agreements including MSAs, SOWs, order forms (SaaS and digital-credit usage-based), NDAs, and amendments.
• Lead client-side legal negotiations with speed, maintaining momentum through execution and providing concise status updates and risk assessments to business stakeholders.
• Manage vendor and consulting agreements, balancing operational needs, speed, cost, and risk.
• Apply commercially calibrated risk judgment on liability caps, indemnities, warranties, intellectual property and content rights, confidentiality, data use, security, privacy, insurance, payment, termination, and dispute provisions.
• Maintain and update website Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, cookie and consent language, and other customer-facing legal notices in coordination with relevant teams.
• Manage Creator-Statusphere and Brand-Creator Agreements for campaigns, ensuring versions are monitored and auditable.
• Provide operational legal guidance on payments, contracting authority, creator relationships, content and usage rights, compliance, and business processes.
• Build scalable legal operations including templates, clause libraries, negotiation playbooks, approval thresholds, intake processes, signature workflows, and contract repositories.
• Advise executives and manage escalation by presenting clear assessments, business impacts, risks, options, and recommendations.
• Partner cross-functionally to understand customers, creator ecosystem, products, revenue model, deal economics, and workflows.
• Perform other duties and projects as assigned.

Requirements

• 4–6 years of post-J.D. transactional legal experience at a law firm, corporation, high-growth startup, or combination thereof.
• Experience independently handling a high volume of commercial contracts with quick turnaround and ownership of negotiation and risk recommendations.
• Strong experience negotiating B2B SaaS, technology, digital services, agency, consulting, vendor, MSA, SOW, NDA, and customized commercial agreements.
• Ability to run contract negotiations directly with sophisticated counterparties while maintaining momentum and making commercially sound tradeoffs.
• Working knowledge of U.S. privacy and data-protection laws including CCPA/CPRA; familiarity with GDPR and SaaS marketing technology data-processing concepts.
• Sound judgment on intellectual property, content and data rights, confidentiality, indemnification, limitation of liability, warranties, security, insurance, payment, and termination.
• Executive-level communication skills to translate legal issues into concise business guidance.
• Highly organized, responsive, autonomous, and able to operate effectively in a fast-moving remote environment.
• Service-oriented, low-ego approach with confidence to make decisions, escalate appropriately, and collaborate across functions.

Education & Bar Admission

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school.
• Active membership in good standing with at least one U.S. state bar.

Preferred Experience

• Experience as an in-house attorney or on secondment in SaaS, marketing technology, advertising technology, digital media, creator-economy, or enterprise technology businesses.
• Familiarity with usage-based, prepaid-credit, subscription, or other nontraditional software pricing models.
• Experience maintaining website terms, privacy notices, consent language, and privacy-compliance processes.
• Knowledge of contract lifecycle management tools, e-signature platforms, structured intake workflows, and legal operations reporting.

Success Metrics

• Rapid progression of client and vendor contracts from commercial handoff through execution with clear ownership and minimal business-team involvement in legal language.
• Early identification and clear communication of legal risks and decisions to C-level leaders with commercially grounded options and recommendations.
• Improved consistency and shortened contract turnaround times through templates, playbooks, approvals, and workflows.
• Well-managed, current website, privacy, payment, and routine operational legal matters aligned with business needs.

Compensation & Benefits

• Salary range: $175,000–$205,000, influenced by education, experience, skills, certifications, market demand, and internal equity.
• Competitive compensation commensurate with experience.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Flexible paid time off and holidays.
• 4% 401(k) match.
• Work-from-anywhere flexibility.
• Paid parental leave.
• Employee stock options.

Location

• This is a full-time, remote U.S. position.
• Candidates located in CA, CO, FL, GA, IL, MI, NJ, NY, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, WI, and VA are prioritized.
• The role requires regular collaboration across time zones and occasional travel for company or team meetings.
• No special physical demands are required.