Commercial Counsel

The role

The Commercial Counsel will work with business development, partnerships, product, and operations to solve legal problems and enable business growth. This person will draft, negotiate, and implement major enterprise and partner agreements.

What you will do

• Draft, negotiate, and implement major enterprise and partner agreements
• Lead negotiations with retailers and strategic partners
• Provide strategic legal advice to internal business clients
• Lead special legal and cross-functional projects
• Implement best practices for integrating AI into work
• Stay current on advertising, competition, IP, consumer protection, gig economy, international, and privacy laws
• Draft terms, policies, and disclosures
• Advise internal clients on the application of executed agreements
• Create and update form legal agreements and playbooks
• Train clients and colleagues on legal issues

Required qualifications

• J.D. from a top-tier law school
• Membership with at least one state bar
• Minimum of 6 years of related experience working at a leading law firm or in-house legal department
• Strong experience with legal issues affecting the Internet and e-commerce spaces, particularly privacy, SaaS, and payments
• Strong history of managing strategic partner negotiations and contract drafting from start to finish
• Strong negotiation presence and the ability to lead teams working towards a goal
• Sound and practical business judgment and ability to manage multiple, high priority, competing priorities
• Ability to provide clear, concise legal advice and work effectively cross-functionally

Nice to have

• California bar membership
• In-house experience, especially at a tech company or retailer
• Experience in alcohol law, international law, and/or privacy and data security laws (including GDPR and CCPA/CPRA)
• Experience with AI governance and privacy-by-design in ML/AI product development
• Experience in AdTech

Benefits

• Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
• New hire equity grant
• Annual refresh grants

About the company

Instacart is a Flex First team transforming the grocery industry. They provide an essential service for customers to get groceries and household goods while offering flexible earnings opportunities to Personal Shoppers.