Commercial Counsel

The role

You will own customer deals, research collaborations, and partnerships with a focus on life sciences and computational chemistry. You will also build legal infrastructure including playbooks, templates, and self-serve paths to support business growth.

What you will do

• Own customer deals end to end including structuring, drafting, and negotiating engagements.
• Negotiate customer agreements and statements of work across business units.
• Negotiate channel and technology partnerships, NDAs, and vendor, SaaS, and professional services agreements.
• Partner with science and business teams to identify and solve problems.
• Create and maintain playbooks, templates, fallback positions, and escalation paths.
• Stand up self-serve routes for routine agreements.
• Use AI tooling to accelerate review, triage, and drafting.

Required qualifications

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) or equivalent law degree
• Admission to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction
• 6+ years of substantive commercial transactional experience
• Demonstrated record of independently owning and closing complex technology or science-driven deals
• Deep fluency in business and commercial engagement and transaction structures, IP ownership and license scope, confidentiality, data rights and privacy, limitation of liability, indemnification, warra

Nice to have

• Life sciences and/or material science transactional depth
• Experience with material science, pharma, biotech, or medical device collaborations, drug-discovery or research partnerships, computational chemistry or AI-driven discovery arrangements, or university
• A combination of in-house and Big Law experience
• An undergraduate or graduate degree in a STEM field — chemistry, biochemistry, biology, computer science, physics, or similar
• Experience with AI/ML products and the contractual questions
• Exposure to data licensing, data-sharing, and privacy requirements across multiple jurisdictions
• Demonstrated use of, or specific interest in, AI tooling to accelerate legal work

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents with generous employer premium contributions
• Retirement savings with company matching
• Paid parental leave
• Inclusive family-building benefits
• Flexible paid time off
• Company-wide seasonal breaks
• Support for flexible work arrangements
• Access to internal learning and development programs

About the company

SandboxAQ is a high-growth company delivering AI solutions that address some of the world's greatest challenges. The company emerged from Alphabet Inc. as an independent, growth capital-backed company in 2022.