Senior Commercial Counsel

The role

You will serve as the primary point-of-contact for the GTM team and negotiate commercial contracts. You will also help establish legal infrastructure including playbooks, templates, and AI-assisted workflows.

What you will do

• Draft, review, and negotiate the commercial book including SaaS customer agreements, order forms, DPAs, partner and channel agreements, vendor contracts, and NDAs.
• Run deals end to end as the legal point of contact.
• Maintain the standard legal toolkit including MSA, DPA, NDA, and SOW templates and negotiation playbooks.
• Design and stand up AI and automation workflows for contract intake, review, and drafting.
• Train and equip GTM and cross-functional teams.

Required qualifications

• A JD and active bar admission in good standing in at least one US jurisdiction.
• 5+ years of commercial transactional experience, in-house or at a firm, with real depth in SaaS and technology agreements.
• A track record of running commercial deals independently.
• Strong legal operations instincts.
• Sound business judgment.
• Fluency with privacy requirements in commercial contracting, including DPAs, data-handling terms, and cross-border transfer obligations.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.

Nice to have

• Time inside a software or technology company
• experience with AI products
• counseling product and engineering teams
• export control
• government and public sector contracting

Before you apply

• Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a comprehensive background check.

About the company

Rescale is the platform engineering and science teams use to run their hardest computational work. Companies in manufacturing, life sciences, and energy use it to run high-performance computing, modeling and simulation, and AI workloads on cloud and hybrid infrastructure.