Senior Commercial Counsel

The role

The Senior Commercial Counsel will partner with business teams to close deals and protect company interests. This person will provide legal advice on deal structure, draft complex agreements, and build scalable contract processes.

What you will do

• Provide expert legal advice to senior finance and business development professionals on deal structure and risk allocation.
• Draft, negotiate, and close complex commercial, SaaS, technology, vendor, licensing, data, and strategic-partnership agreements.
• Keep cross-functional stakeholders aligned on priorities, decisions, and next steps.
• Build and improve scalable contract processes, clause libraries, and playbooks.
• Identify root causes of recurring issues and design sustainable solutions.
• Use AI and other technology for legal review, drafting, research, and workflow management.
• Contribute across broader in-house matters as business needs evolve.

Required qualifications

• 6-10 years of commercial legal experience in technology transactions, SaaS agreements, corporate law, mergers & acquisitions, funds, and/or finance at a top tier law firm or high growth technology com
• Experience leading complex commercial negotiations from initial term sheet through final execution.
• Commercial mindset with a deep understanding of practical business issues.
• Experience working cross-functionally on multiple projects under tight deadlines.
• Desire to work in a fast-paced, dynamic, and demanding environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and negotiation skills.
• Efficient and judicious use of appropriate AI tools.

Nice to have

• Experience working on a wide variety of in-house legal matters, including employment issues, stock option plans, and intellectual property.
• Experience working in a hyper-growth, tech-focused company.
• Strong interest in blockchain technology and its evolving regulatory landscape.

Before you apply

• Only apply via paxos.com/careers.
• Paxos only recruits via @paxos.com email.

About the company

Paxos is rebuilding financial infrastructure to enable the instant movement of any asset. They build blockchain infrastructure that tokenizes, custodies, trades and settles assets for leading financial institutions.