Senior Commercial Counsel

Overview

The organization is seeking a Senior Commercial Counsel to partner with business teams on deal execution while protecting organizational interests. This role translates legal, commercial, technology, and regulatory considerations into clear, actionable recommendations, and helps scale contract processes through templates, playbooks, and continuous improvements.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert legal advice to senior finance and business development professionals on deal structure, risk allocation, approval paths, and practical options.
• Draft, negotiate, and close complex commercial, SaaS, technology, vendor, licensing, data, and strategic partnership agreements; manage deals from term sheet through signature.
• Align cross-functional stakeholders on priorities, decisions, tradeoffs, and next steps, with clear and proactive communication throughout each matter.
• Build and improve scalable contract processes, clause libraries, playbooks, and self-service resources to help the business move faster while maintaining consistent legal standards.
• Identify patterns across matters, determine root causes, and design sustainable solutions to address recurring issues.
• Use AI and other technology thoughtfully for legal review, drafting, research, and workflow management, applying appropriate human judgment and safeguards for quality, confidentiality, and accuracy.
• Take on additional in-house commercial, corporate, and other legal matters as business needs evolve.
• Manage activities that may include drafting and maintaining terms and conditions and negotiating banking and financing documents.

Requirements

• 6-10 years of commercial legal experience in technology transactions, SaaS agreements, corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, funds, and/or finance at a top-tier law firm or high-growth technology company (preferably a combination).
• Experience leading complex commercial negotiations from initial term sheet through final execution, with sound judgment on when to hold firm and when to compromise.
• Commercial mindset with strong understanding of practical business issues and ability to weigh legal risk against business objectives.
• Ability to work cross-functionally across multiple projects under tight deadlines while building trusted client relationships.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication and negotiation skills, including explaining complex legal issues clearly to non-lawyers.
• Efficient and judicious use of appropriate AI tools to improve speed and quality, with clear judgment about when human review is essential.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience across a wide range of in-house legal matters, including employment issues, stock option plans, and intellectual property; comfort handling unfamiliar areas of law as needs arise.
• Experience in hyper-growth, tech-focused environments, including how legal teams can scale processes to support rapid change.
• Strong interest in blockchain technology and its evolving regulatory landscape, with curiosity about how digital assets and tokenization are reshaping financial services.

Compensation & Benefits

• Compensation Range: $186,000 - $213,525

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