Associate General Counsel

The role

You will own the commercial legal function and design end-to-end legal workflows. You will build AI-native systems for contract management and negotiate enterprise, supplier, and partner agreements.

What you will do

• Design legal workflows including intake, triage, drafting, review, approvals and contract management
• Build and maintain AI agents and automations for routine review
• Create templates, playbooks and guided workflows for the commercial team
• Choose tools and track function performance on speed, risk and cost
• Negotiate enterprise, supplier and partner agreements
• Manage the back-to-back contract model
• Structure payment and risk terms
• Keep counterparties on Patch paper where possible
• Work with the VP of Finance as the main point of contact on contractual risk
• Set risk thresholds and work with Sales, Supply, Finance and leadership to protect Patch

Required qualifications

• 6-10+ years of commercial contracting experience
• Experience negotiating complex enterprise agreements
• Hands-on experience using AI tools in legal work
• Ability to form a sound position where there is no precedent
• Ability to explain legal risk to executives, technical teams and counterparties in plain language

Nice to have

• background in commodities, energy, environmental markets or fintech
• experience building legal ops or contract management from scratch
• comfort with no-code tools or scripting

About the company

Patch is the AI-native services company that helps enterprises secure the resources they need to grow sustainably. They combine advisory expertise, proprietary market data and purpose-built software to help companies source, vet and manage what they buy.