Commercial Legal Lead

The role

The Commercial Legal Lead will own the commercial legal function end-to-end as an individual contributor. You will draft and negotiate complex commercial transactions and build templates, playbooks, and processes from the ground up.

What you will do

• Draft and negotiate complex commercial transactions on both buy-side and sell-side
• Build commercial legal foundation including templates, playbooks, contract processes, and CLM
• Partner with GTM, sales, and leadership to move deals quickly while managing risk
• Advise on privacy and related matters as the business scales

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of relevant commercial legal experience
• A top-tier law firm foundation combined with in-house experience at a technology, cloud infrastructure, SaaS, or AI company
• Proven track record drafting and negotiating complex commercial deals, both buy-side and sell-side
• Active US bar membership in good standing
• An IC operator who wants to own and build the commercial function
• Based in San Francisco and able to work in-office 5 days/week

Nice to have

• California or NY bar membership preferred
• Experience coming from a model lab, AI startup, or high-growth company where you built systems from scratch
• Exposure to infrastructure capacity, data center, procurement, GPU, or model/content licensing

Benefits

• Interesting and challenging work
• Learning and growth opportunities
• Visa sponsorship
• Relocation help to San Francisco
• Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
• Regular team events and offsites

Before you apply

• We offer visa sponsorship and will help you relocate to San Francisco

About the company

fal is the generative media ecosystem powering the next generation of AI products. They build infrastructure, tools, and model access for developers and enterprises.