Commercial Counsel

Job description

The Commercial Counsel will play a meaningful role in enabling revenue growth while protecting the company from legal and business risks. You’ll partner cross-functionally to close deals efficiently, develop scalable legal processes, and provide business-aligned counsel!

This is a commercial-focused role, centered on negotiating and closing a wide range of agreements, from SMB to enterprise, including some of the largest companies in the world, partner, and vendor contracts. Within these deals, you will bring sharp awareness of data privacy and digital accessibility laws and enforcement, ensuring legal risks are identified and mitigated at every step.

Operating within a mid-sized, high-growth company with over $100M in ARR, you’ll work across departments to support a high volume of contracts while helping evolve internal legal systems, playbooks, and templates. You will do well in a fast-moving atmosphere that respects precision, adaptability, and strong business acumen and you will address issues by anticipating legal and operational challenges in advance. You stay current on legal developments, new technologies like AI, and the evolving role of in-house legal departments leveraging legal innovation and working hand-in-hand with business partners to not only surface issues but to fix them collaboratively.

Responsibilities

Deal Flow & Contract Management (70%)

• Draft, redline, and negotiate a range of SaaS commercial and vendor agreements.
• Represent the company with professionalism and confidence in live negotiations and customer calls, especially with enterprise buyers and in-house counsel.
• Manage a contract portfolio that spans from SMB transactions to highly sophisticated enterprise deals.
• Use insights from negotiations and redlines to refine contract templates, playbooks, and legal processes.
• Partner with Sales, Finance, Information Security, and Customer Success to accelerate deal cycles while handling legal exposure.
• Support the implementation and adoption of our Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) system to enable scalable deal execution.
• Lead the development and maintenance of legal templates and internal documentation in collaboration with both internal teams and outside counsel.
• Understand our products, services, and go-to-market strategy—and how digital accessibility standards and enforcement impact commercial agreements and client expectations.
• Anticipate points of friction in negotiations and proactively craft solutions—enabling faster deal velocity and clearer guidance across teams.

Risk Mitigation, Compliance & Guidance (30%)

• Provide legal advice to the business on a range of topics, with a focus on those that intersect with commercial activities.
• Stay current on legal and regulatory developments—including data privacy, accessibility compliance, and AI law—to anticipate and mitigate potential risk.
• Conduct legal research and draft risk assessment memos with clear, actionable recommendations.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to address and resolve risks in real time.
• Don’t stop at identifying legal risk—partner with business teams to co-create practical, operational fixes that align with business goals and minimize exposure.
• Support the creation and evolution of company policies, compliance procedures, and employee-facing guidance.
• Develop and maintain internal legal training materials to build legal literacy and promote self-service among business teams.
• Embrace the ongoing transformation of in-house legal departments—actively learning and implementing legal tech, new workflows, and standard processes.
• Use AI tools and automation to streamline contract review, research, and internal support functions.

Who You Are

Education & Bar Membership

• Juris Doctorate from an accredited law school.
• Active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.

Experience

• 5-7+ years as a corporate or commercial attorney, ideally with a strong focus on SaaS, data privacy, and security.
• Experience supporting both SMB and enterprise sales teams, including high-value negotiations with Fortune 500 clients.
• Familiarity with Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) systems, ideally during a rollout or scaling phase.
• Demonstrated interest in legal innovation, AI law, and the evolving in-house legal landscape.

Skills

• Excellent face-to-face and live negotiation skills, especially when working with sophisticated enterprise counsel.
• Expert redlining with the ability to extract strategic insights from contract negotiations and apply them to process and playbook improvements.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with shifting priorities.
• Strong communicator, able to translate legal issues into business solutions.
• Takes initiative and forward-looking—excited about anticipating risk, identifying business opportunities, and staying ahead of evolving legal and operational landscapes.
• Highly organized and resourceful, with project management and prioritization abilities.
• Comfortable using AI tools and legal tech to increase efficiency, speed, and accuracy.
• A problem-solver by nature—committed to not only spotting issues, but to working cross-functionally to resolve them and strengthen the business

Application Process

This is a full-time salaried position with a competitive benefits package, including bonus opportunities and unlimited vacation/FTO. Salary is commensurate with experience.

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