Commercial and International Counsel

The role

You will draft and negotiate commercial agreements including data licensing, capture partnerships, and vendor contracts. You will build templates and playbooks for commercial teams and lead the legal workstream for new market entries.

What you will do

• Draft and negotiate data licensing agreements with AI customers
• Draft and negotiate capture partnership, BPO, vendor, compute, cloud, and software contracts
• Build standard agreements, negotiation playbooks, and an approval matrix
• Lead the legal workstream for each new country including entity formation and local agreements
• Advise on import and export of capture devices, customs, and certifications
• Advise on warranties, repair, and logistics contracts
• Select, brief, and manage local law firms across markets

Required qualifications

• Law degree
• Admission to practice in at least one jurisdiction
• 5 to 8+ years of commercial and transactional practice
• In-house time at a high-growth company operating in several countries
• Proven record of drafting and negotiating customer agreements, data licensing, technology, vendor, and partnership agreements with limited supervision
• Experience advising and training commercial teams on deal structure and risk allocation

Nice to have

• Experience with complex commercial contracts, including dataset licensing, ownership of collected data, and contracts with AI and machine learning companies
• Direct experience setting up operations in new countries, including entity formation, contractor classification, and hardware imports
• SOC 2 compliance or audit-readiness initiatives

About the company

Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI. They design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by AI labs and robotics companies.