Commercial Counsel

The role

You will own the contract lifecycle for partnerships end to end. This includes intake, standard paper, signature, and post-signature obligations while building legal operations tooling.

What you will do

• Intake and triage of partnership team requests
• Negotiation of NDAs and standard partnership and incentive agreements
• Manage a contract repository linked to CRM and an obligations register
• Build legal ops infrastructure including playbooks, clause libraries, and templates
• Develop AI workflows and agents for intake, drafting and review
• Track outside counsel budget
• Manage standard vendor and SaaS terms, renewals, and insurance calendar
• Conduct due diligence and security questionnaires
• Maintain internal policy and data room hygiene
• Support corporate housekeeping, employment, IP and privacy matters with outside counsel

Required qualifications

• Legally trained (qualified lawyer or equivalent law degree)
• 5 to 8 years in commercial contracting
• Experience in-house at a fast-growing technology company
• Has negotiated partnership, integration or licensing agreements alone on own and counterparty paper
• US-style commercial drafting is essential
• Has built legal operations in practice
• Builds with AI tools
• Comfortable working with Finance on payment mechanics, milestones and budgets
• Comfortable with a CRM as the source of truth
• Able to hold a position with a deal team under time pressure
• Clear, concise communication with non-lawyers
• Strong ownership and autonomy at startup pace

Nice to have

• Comfort operating in fast-changing, ambiguous contexts
• Team-first mindset, low ego

Benefits

• Fair, top-tier compensation
• Real flexibility
• Time together in Paris
• Great health coverage
• Support to keep learning

About the company

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol backed by several investors including a16z crypto and Coinbase Ventures. It aims to build an open credit network.