Senior Counsel, Commercial

The role

You will lead and scale commercial legal at OLIX by owning commercial contracting end to end. You will negotiate complex deals, define legal playbooks, and work with engineers and commercial leaders to support a rapidly scaling business.

What you will do

• Own commercial legal work end to end.
• Lead negotiations on largest and most complex commercial deals.
• Help build and scale the commercial legal team.
• Set commercial legal standards, playbooks, and templates.
• Make risk decisions and recommend positions to the business.
• Design and build scalable legal workflows using AI tooling and automation.
• Integrate AI into day-to-day contracting.
• Set positions on key commercial terms like liability, IP, and data protection.
• Own the IP dimension of commercial work.
• Partner with Sales, Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, and Engineering.

Required qualifications

• Qualified solicitor in England and Wales, or US-qualified attorney (admitted to a US state bar).
• At least 8 to 12 years of post-qualification experience.
• Trained at a top-tier City, US, or comparable international firm.
• Demonstrable track record leading complex commercial contract negotiations end to end.
• Technical IP experience in technology development, manufacturing, and supply arrangements.
• Experience in an environment like OLIX, such as a venture-backed scale-up.
• Line-management or mentoring experience with junior counsel, paralegals, or secondees.
• Comfortable with technical subject matter.
• AI-native approach to legal work.
• Bias toward building scalable systems over doing work manually.
• Commercially pragmatic and able to move at pace.
• Direct, plain-language communicator.

Nice to have

• Experience in technology or in technical manufacturing, ideally B2B hardware, semiconductors, or infrastructure.
• Supply chain experience.
• Familiarity with enterprise or cloud customer contracting.
• Understanding of export controls and data protection.
• Experience implementing or selecting CLM or legal AI tooling.
• Light coding or low-code fluency (Python, SQL, Zapier, n8n, or similar).

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Meaningful stock options
• Annual Living-Local Bonus if your residence is within 20 minutes of the office
• Employer-contributed retirement plans
• Full visa sponsorship and relocation support

Before you apply

• Candidates eligibility to work at OLIX depends on their most recent citizenship or permanent residency status due to U.S. export control regulations.
• Generally unable to consider applicants whose most recent citizenship or permanent residence is in certain restricted countries (Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Russia, Belarus, China, Hong Kong, Maca

About the company

OLIX is a deep-tech company developing the Decode Accelerator 1 (DX-1) to address the infrastructure gap in AI. The company aims to create a new paradigm for faster and more efficient system level performance.