Commercial Counsel

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Draft, negotiate, and execute significant enterprise and partnership agreements across all business sectors.

• Spearhead negotiations with retailers and strategic partners, ensuring alignment with internal stakeholders to successfully close deals.

• Offer strategic legal counsel to internal business clients, providing recommendations for approval, conditional approval, decline, or escalation.

• Lead specialized legal and cross-functional initiatives from inception to completion.

• Establish best practices for the integration of AI into legal processes.

• Oversee and interpret advertising, competition, intellectual property, consumer protection, gig economy, international, and privacy laws and regulations, translating them into actionable compliance guidance.

• Prepare terms, policies, and disclosures while developing supporting procedures.

• Counsel internal clients regarding executed agreements.

• Create and revise standard legal agreements and playbooks.

• Educate clients and colleagues on legal matters.

• Anticipate impending legal challenges and assist the business in preparation.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Juris Doctor degree from a prestigious law school and admission to at least one state bar (preferably California).

• At least 6 years of relevant experience at a leading law firm or within an in-house legal department.

• Extensive experience with legal issues pertinent to the Internet and e-commerce sectors, notably in privacy, SaaS, and payments.

• Proven track record in managing strategic partner negotiations and contract drafting from beginning to end.

• Strong negotiation skills and the ability to guide teams towards achieving objectives.

• Sound and practical business acumen with the capability to handle multiple high-priority and competing tasks effectively.

• Proficiency in providing clear and concise legal advice while collaborating cross-functionally to achieve results.

• A collaborative team-oriented mindset.

• In-house experience, particularly within a technology company or retail environment (preferred).

• Familiarity with alcohol law, international law, and/or privacy and data security regulations, including GDPR and CCPA/CPRA (preferred).

• Experience in AI governance and implementing privacy-by-design in machine learning/AI product development (preferred).

• Background in AdTech (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible options for work location: home, office, or coffee shop.

• Regular in-person gatherings.

• Equity grant for new hires.

• Annual refresh grants.

• Compensation and benefits that are competitive in the market, tailored to work location.