Commercial and Product Counsel
Legal · Posted 25 days ago
We are looking for a Commercial and Product Counsel with 5-8 years of experience to join as the second major legal hire at an AI-native law firm that's redefining how startups receive legal support. This is a high-impact role where your work will directly shape the company's trajectory - reviewing and negotiating comme...
- Way of working
- On site
- Location
- Union Square, San Francisco, CA
- Pay range
- $150,000 to $210,000
- Level
- Senior
- Experience
- 5 to 8 years
- Type
- Full time
- Visa sponsorship
- Not offered for this role
- The company
- under 20 people
Skills that matter here
What you would be doing
- Review and negotiate commercial contracts; advise on product and privacy matters
- Partner closely with legal and product teams
- Interpret contract terms and surface key obligations, risks, and anomalies
- Operate internal tooling to streamline review
- Spot inefficiencies and patterns in the review process
- Standardize and codify recurring contract types, review playbooks, and quality bars
- Protect turnaround and SLA commitments
- Partner with operations to evolve legal services delivery
The full description
We are looking for a Commercial and Product Counsel with 5-8 years of experience to join as the second major legal hire at an AI-native law firm that's redefining how startups receive legal support. This is a high-impact role where your work will directly shape the company's trajectory - reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts for clients, building scalable legal playbooks, and partnering with product and engineering to improve AI-assisted legal workflows.
What will you be doing?
- Reviewing and negotiating commercial contracts for late-stage startup clients (Series A to Series B, B2B SaaS companies)
- Advising clients on product, privacy, and corporate matters as an extension of their in-house legal team
- Building and codifying review playbooks and quality standards that the rest of the team ramps against
- Partnering closely with product and engineering to make the AI-powered legal platform faster and more accurate
- Working at a high pace (Mon-Fri 9am-8pm, Sat 11am-5pm) in a tight-knit, early-stage team environment
Key Requirements
- J.D. and active California bar membership in good standing
- 5-8 years of legal experience with significant commercial/transactional work supporting technology companies
- In-house counsel experience required (ideally as sole counsel or first legal hire at a startup)
- Willingness to work 6 days a week in-office in San Francisco at a high-intensity pace (11-5 on Saturday)
- Strong communication skills and comfort operating in a fast-paced, ambiguous, high-ownership environment
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