Alembic

Commercial Counsel

San Francisco HQ. Posted a month ago

The role

You will own commercial contracting end to end and build a commercial legal function. You will lead negotiations for enterprise deals, partnerships, and infrastructure while managing data protection and AI regulatory posture.

What you will do

  • Own the enterprise deal desk.
  • Lead negotiation of master agreements, order forms, DPAs, security exhibits and NDAs.
  • Build the playbook including templates, fallback positions and escalation paths.
  • Structure and negotiate reseller, co-sell, SI and strategic alliance agreements.
  • Serve as legal lead on infrastructure including compute, colocation, hardware procurement and data licensing.
  • Own the data-protection and AI-regulatory posture.
  • Partner with the Head of Corporate Legal on financing and strategic transactions.

Required qualifications

  • JD
  • active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar
  • 5–9 years in commercial and technology transactions
  • substantial in-house time at a high-growth technology company
  • track record negotiating enterprise SaaS and data agreements against Fortune 100 procurement and security teams
  • fluency in data protection and security contracting: GDPR, CCPA, DPAs, sub-processor chains, security addenda

Nice to have

  • California preferred, or eligible to register as in-house counsel here
  • compute, colocation, data centre or hardware procurement agreements
  • export controls
  • exposure to venture debt or equipment financing
  • selecting and rolling out a CLM

Benefits

  • Meaningful equity

About the company

Alembic is the pioneering Causal AI platform. Fortune 100 companies including Nvidia, Delta Air Lines, and Mars use Alembic to make multimillion-dollar decisions on trusted, causal evidence.