Commercial/Transactional Lawyer

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

📋 Description

• Assist the team in comprehending actual legal workflows, such as intake, matter organization, document review, escalation, and the preservation of decisions and rationale.

• Offer practical advice to product managers and engineers regarding commercial agreements, matter workflows, risk assessment, negotiation strategies, and legal operations.

• Assess AI product concepts and workflows to ensure they reflect realistic legal practices, identifying missing steps, edge cases, and underlying assumptions.

• Articulate the legal reasoning behind accepting, rejecting, redlining, seeking context, or escalating contract provisions.

• Review AI-generated outputs, including summaries, issue identification, clause classifications, redline recommendations, obligation extraction, precedent retrieval, and more.

• Create evaluation rubrics, benchmarks, and representative examples for the training and testing of AI systems.

• Produce ground-truth data by analyzing agreements, labeling legally pertinent information, documenting evidence, and articulating reasoning.

• Provide guidance on modeling institutional legal knowledge, which encompasses playbooks, prior positions, counterparty history, precedent, approvals, and negotiation rationale.

• Deliver specific feedback on product accuracy, completeness, confidence, and utility to seasoned lawyers.

• Occasionally assist in customer discovery through collaborative sessions or client discussions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Must reside in the United States.

• Preferred 5+ years of legal experience; candidates with slightly fewer years but particularly relevant experience may also be considered.

• Significant hands-on experience in reviewing, drafting, and negotiating commercial or transactional agreements.

• Background as an in-house lawyer, senior associate, legal consultant, or transactional counsel supporting complex organizations or sophisticated commercial clients.

• Extensive experience with NDAs, services agreements, procurement or vendor agreements, technology agreements, licensing agreements, transaction documents, or other negotiated contracts.

• Capacity to independently review agreements, identify significant issues, evaluate practical risks, and articulate the reasoning behind recommendations.

• Experience utilizing playbooks, precedent, prior agreements, negotiation history, or organizational risk tolerance when advising on contract positions.

• Strong written communication skills for structured explanations and written evaluations.

• Ability to clearly explain legal concepts to engineers, product managers, designers, and other non-lawyers.

• Comfort in working with incomplete information and distinguishing conclusions, necessary context, escalation points, and matters unsuitable for AI determination.

• Practical perspective on what constitutes useful versus unhelpful legal technology.

• Qualification or admission as a lawyer in a U.S. jurisdiction.

• A signed NDA is required before work commences.

• Currently authorized to work legally in the U.S.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible scheduling tailored to accommodate an existing legal role or practice.

• Remote-friendly work arrangement.

• Approximately 5–10 hours of work per week.

• Opportunity for extending the initial engagement based on mutual interest and project requirements.

• Competitive hourly compensation aligned with experience and expertise depth.