Senior Legal Counsel, Commercial

Overview

This role involves serving as a strategic business partner and skilled commercial, marketing, and product attorney within a small but impactful legal team. The position supports closing significant partnership and commercial deals, advising on risk management, and leveraging AI to modernize legal workflows. It also offers the opportunity to contribute to building and scaling the legal function and supporting overall company growth. The role reports to the General Counsel and collaborates closely with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end negotiation and drafting of complex, high-value commercial agreements, including customer agreements, API and data contracts, and vendor deals.
• Collaborate with go-to-market, product, marketing, finance, and security teams to identify and assess risks and develop practical, efficient solutions.
• Design and implement AI-enabled legal workflows to improve speed, consistency, and scalability while maintaining appropriate human oversight.
• Advise on legal aspects of AI, data use, and automation, supporting responsible AI practices.
• Provide senior leadership with clear, decisive guidance on legal and regulatory risks, balancing legal and business considerations.
• Identify emerging legal and regulatory challenges and develop proactive strategies.
• Build and maintain strong relationships across the organization, serving as a go-to legal resource.
• Mentor and learn from other legal team members.

Requirements

• Extensive experience leading complex commercial negotiations, preferably with significant in-house experience at a technology or SaaS company.
• Proven track record of independently leading and closing complex, high-stakes commercial negotiations.
• Experience providing business-oriented legal counsel to product and technology teams.
• Working knowledge of at least two of the following areas: marketing, intellectual property, or privacy law.
• Hands-on experience using AI tools for scaling legal operations, including contract review, redlining, risk identification, task automation, and legal research.
• Ability to provide strategic, time-sensitive, business-oriented counsel to executives.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of explaining complex legal concepts to non-legal audiences.
• Familiarity with AI governance frameworks, data protection, and cloud contracting best practices.
• Strong judgment in managing ambiguity, competing priorities, and risk escalation.
• Collaborative mindset with the ability to build credibility and influence without formal authority.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing AI-enabled legal workflows.
• Knowledge of responsible AI operationalization.

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary range: $185,000 to $250,000 annually, with variations based on location, experience, skills, and business needs.
• Equity participation.
• Healthcare coverage including medical, dental, and vision with 90% employer coverage for employees and dependents; pet coverage available.
• Flexible vacation policy and working hours.
• One week-long company-wide winter slowdown.
• Three volunteer days off annually.
• Work-from-home stipend for home office setup.
• Charity donation matching up to $100.
• Professional and career growth programs, coaching, tools, and individual learning stipend.
• Opportunities for in-person team events and company off-sites.

Location

This is a remote-first position available anywhere in the United States except Delaware, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Hawaii, New Mexico, and West Virginia. Some roles may also be based internationally. Employment contracts outside the US and Ireland are managed through a third-party platform.