Strategic Transactions & Partnerships Counsel

The role

You will lead complex commercial deals including strategic partnerships, large-scale compute procurement, and model licensing. You will partner with executive stakeholders to align deal strategy with business objectives and build transactional infrastructure.

What you will do

• Negotiate and structure complex agreements, including commercial transactions, strategic partnerships, large-scale compute procurement, and licensing arrangements.
• Serve as the legal architect on first-of-their-kind deals where there is no template to work from.
• Partner directly with executive stakeholders to align deal strategy with business objectives.
• Advise on the commercial and strategic implications of the evolving AI landscape.
• Help build the transactional infrastructure and playbooks a scaling legal function needs.

Required qualifications

• 9+ years of relevant experience, with significant complex commercial transactional work, ideally spanning law firm and in-house.
• A JD and membership in at least one US state bar.
• Demonstrated experience leading sophisticated deals — procurement, partnerships, licensing — independently and end-to-end.
• Deep familiarity with the AI ecosystem and the novel legal questions it raises.
• Strong executive presence and the judgment to navigate ambiguity with confidence.
• AI-forward, builder’s mindset, with a demonstrated ability to use AI tools to streamline daily workflows and accelerate efficiency.

Nice to have

• Experience in hypergrowth environments preferred

Benefits

• Meaningful equity
• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive benefits package

About the company

Fireworks is a platform for specialized intelligence that enables companies to build, train, and serve AI models. It is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion.