Job Description
About Snorkel
At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn’t start with the model, it starts with the data.
We’re on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The AI landscape has gone through incredible changes since 2015, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant: the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems. We work with some of the world’s largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler!
Counsel, Commercial
What You’ll Do
Snorkel AI is looking for a Counsel, Commercial to join our growing Legal team, reporting to Snorkel’s Associate General Counsel, Commercial. This is a key role across Snorkel’s commercial contracting function, including vendor agreements and customer agreements.
You will serve as a trusted legal partner to business teams across the company, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts while helping build scalable processes. You’ll work closely with cross-functional stakeholders, combining strong commercial legal skills with the hands-on, execution-oriented approach required in a fast-growing technology company.
This hybrid role is based in San Francisco or New York City.
Responsibilities
- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts, including vendor and customer agreements, NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, order forms, and other commercial arrangements.
- Serve as a trusted legal partner to cross-functional teams on commercial contracts.
- Manage a high volume of contracts and competing priorities, ensuring timely execution and alignment with business objectives.
- Review and negotiate commercial agreement efficiently and identity when issues require escalation or cross-functional input.
- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of contract templates, playbooks, and negotiation guidelines to drive consistency and efficiency across the commercial contracting process.
- Manage contract workflows and lifecycle processes, including intake, routing, approval, execution, and archival.
- Support the Associate General Counsel, Commercial on ad hoc legal projects and other matters as needed.
Who You Are
Minimum Qualifications
- J.D. and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- 3–5 years of relevant commercial or transactional legal experience in-house.
- Strong experience drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, including vendor agreements, customer agreements, NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, and order forms.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly to business stakeholders.
- Experience with Ironclad or similar contract lifecycle management (CLM) platforms.
- Comfort with using AI workflows and operating in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong business judgment and the ability to balance legal risk with business objectives in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to manage a high volume of contracts and competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience at a technology, AI company, or at a high-growth startup.
- Experience helping build or improve contracting workflows, templates, or vendor review processes.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where priorities evolve and the Legal team is expected to be both strategic and highly execution-oriented.
Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.
Salary range(s) for this role
$125,000—$185,000 USD
Be Your Best at Snorkel
Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly—offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you’ll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, or learn new skills across multiple functions, you’re fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.
Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Snorkel AI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
