Counsel, Commercial

The role

This person will draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial contracts. They will serve as a legal partner to cross-functional teams and help build scalable processes.

What you will do

• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts, including vendor and customer agreements, NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, order forms, and other commercial arrangements.
• Serve as a trusted legal partner to cross-functional teams on commercial contracts.
• Manage a high volume of contracts and competing priorities.
• Review and negotiate commercial agreement efficiently and identify when issues require escalation or cross-functional input.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of contract templates, playbooks, and negotiation guidelines.
• Manage contract workflows and lifecycle processes, including intake, routing, approval, execution, and archival.
• Support the Associate General Counsel, Commercial on ad hoc legal projects and other matters as needed.

Required qualifications

• J.D. and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 2–5 years of relevant commercial or transactional legal experience in-house.
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, including vendor agreements, customer agreements, NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, and order forms.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Experience with Ironclad or similar contract lifecycle management (CLM) platforms.
• Comfort with using AI workflows and operating in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong business judgment and the ability to balance legal risk with business objectives in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to manage a high volume of contracts and competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.

Nice to have

• Experience at a technology, AI company, or at a high-growth startup.
• Experience helping build or improve contracting workflows, templates, or vendor review processes.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where priorities evolve and the Legal team is expected to be both strategic and highly execution-oriented.

About the company

Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises.