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Senior Commercial Counsel

Synthesia· Operations
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Hybrid (New York City), Hybrid (Austin)$175k - $210kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Senior Commercial Counsel at Synthesia, reporting to the Director, Commercial Legal, supporting Sales, Marketing, Finance, and GTM teams with a focus on commercial agreements, data protection, AI governance, and scalable legal processes.

Responsibilities

  • Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements to support sales, partnerships, and purchases of software and services, with primary focus on service agreements, software licenses, data processing agreements, and NDAs for prospective customers
  • Advising on intellectual property, data privacy, data security, software licensing, and go-to-market strategy
  • Providing input on processes, policies, and playbooks to scale the organization and increase efficiency
  • Staying up-to-date on relevant industry, commercial, open source, IP, privacy, employment, AI, and other laws and developments
  • Developing the company’s knowledge in areas such as intellectual property, data protection, financial services, healthcare, AI governance, and regulatory matters
  • Operating independently to provide practical, decisive legal guidance balancing business objectives with risk, considering company policies and negotiation positions

Qualifications

  • Completion of a law degree from an accredited U.S. institution, and qualified to practice law as an in-house U.S. attorney
  • 6+ years of post-qualification experience on commercial transactions (e.g., SaaS, IP licensing, software licensing, product resale, contractors, outsourcing, facilities) including with large enterprises and regulated industries (financial services, healthcare), government, or education sectors
  • Experience in an in-house legal department in the tech sector; bonus for AI company
  • Comfort negotiating data processing agreements with working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA as they relate to contracts
  • Clear, concise drafting of documents and communications digestible for non-lawyers
  • Experience negotiating with enterprise customers, including on customer-form terms
  • Understanding of cloud services, technology, and professional services contracts
  • Knowledge of in-house business processes related to sales operations and revenue recognition (Order Forms and Statements of Work)
  • Experience managing workload on tight timelines with multiple competing demands
  • Exposure to negotiating AI terms, including AI model inputs/outputs IP issues and training data usage

Skills

Required:Commercial contract drafting and negotiationData protection and privacyIntellectual property
Nice to have:AI governance and AI terms

Benefits

  • Equity
  • comprehensive benefits package
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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