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Commercial Counsel/Senior Counsel

Perplexity· Legal
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Hybrid (San Francisco), Hybrid (New York City)$200k - $290kFull-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Commercially minded attorney responsible for the full commercial legal lifecycle, drafting, negotiating, and closing a wide range of technology and commercial agreements, with a focus on AI-related legal considerations and scalable legal infrastructure.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end drafting, review, and negotiation of commercial agreements, including MSAs, SaaS and API agreements, DPAs, partnership and reseller agreements, strategic collaboration and co-marketing agreements, procurement and vendor contracts, technology and infrastructure agreements, and IP licensing arrangements.
  • Serve as a primary legal partner across the business, providing fast, practical, and business-aligned counsel that accelerates deal velocity without compromising on risk management.
  • Provide strategic counsel on legal risks across AI infrastructure, compute, partnerships, and enterprise deployments as the company scales.
  • Advise on AI-specific legal considerations in commercial agreements, including acceptable use, data retention and training restrictions, output liability, and evolving regulatory requirements (e.g., EU AI Act, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR).
  • Build and maintain scalable legal infrastructure—contract templates, negotiation playbooks, fallback positions, and tools (e.g., CLM, self-serve workflows)—to support high-volume deal flow and reduce friction in the contracting cycle.
  • Partner cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Security, Finance, and Compliance teams to surface and address legal risk early, particularly on data use, enterprise integrations, and customer-specific compliance requirements.
  • Monitor the evolving regulatory landscape for enterprise AI and SaaS products and translate emerging requirements into practical contractual and policy guidance for internal stakeholders.

Qualifications

  • JD and in good standing with an active U.S. state bar membership.
  • At least 5+ years of law firm and/or in-house experience, with a track record of drafting and negotiating complex commercial technology agreements.
  • Strong business acumen and ability to partner effectively with sales, product, engineering, and executive teams.
  • Deep familiarity with data privacy and security frameworks (GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, SOC 2, HIPAA) and experience negotiating DPAs and related compliance agreements.
  • Prior experience with infrastructure agreements is strongly preferred, including compute procurement (e.g., GPU capacity and cloud/neocloud agreements, colocation, and related SLA and acceptance terms).
  • Ability to communicate clearly with business and technical audiences and effectively translate legal concepts for non-lawyers.
  • Hands-on attitude to tackle projects large and small, low-ego approach to working across the organization.
  • Positive collaborative attitude, comfort with ambiguity and a fast pace, high level of integrity, and intellectual curiosity about AI technology and how these products work.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

Skills

Required:Commercial contract drafting and negotiationData privacy and security
Nice to have:AI-specific regulatory awareness

Benefits

  • Full-time U.S. benefits including equity, health, dental, vision, retirement, fitness, commuter and dependent care accounts, and more.
  • International benefits tailored to region of residence.
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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