Commercial Counsel

Cognition

$130K — $180K *
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts
  • Experience in high-velocity, high-growth tech companies
  • Diverse experience with inbound and outbound contracts
  • Strong understanding of national and international legal requirements
  • Ability to manage complex negotiations effectively

Responsibilities

  • Focus on Enterprise (US) deals and contract work
  • Manage a high-volume workflow of key legal documents
  • Negotiate and redline Licensing, SaaS agreements, and NDAs
  • Provide legal guidance to balance risk and reward
  • Engage with enterprise-level counsel for swift closures
  • Translate contractual commitments for non-legal stakeholders
  • Establish and grow contract compliance mechanisms

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a high-caliber team
  • Direct involvement in company growth and strategy
  • Dynamic work environment with complex, high-stakes deals
  • Cross-functional collaboration with various departments
  • Significant influence on legal and operational processes
Full Job Description
About the Role

As Commercial Counsel for US, you will sit at the centre of a fast-moving commercial legal function, managing a high-volume workflow of complex negotiations across AI SaaS licensing, marketing, and partnership agreements. You will work with enterprise-level deals, balancing risk and reward with pragmatism and speed, and ensuring closures that are both fair and commercially sound.

This role carries real weight. You will serve as the connective tissue between the GTM team and technical and operational teams, translating contractual commitments into guidance that non-legal stakeholders can act on.

Beyond day-to-day deal work, you will play a meaningful part in the company's growth, working cross-functionally to establish and grow contract compliance mechanisms. If you want a legal role with genuine strategic scope, this is it.

In this role you will:
  • Focus on Enterprise (US) deals and contract work
  • Manage a high-volume workflow, redlining and negotiating key legal documents, including Licensing, SaaS agreements, and NDAs
  • Provide crucial legal guidance, balancing risk/reward, with an understanding of national and international requirements and parlaying that to the technical and operational team
  • Engage with enterprise-level counsel, ensuring swift and fair deal closures


Ideally you have:
  • 7+ years experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts
  • Experience with high-velocity, high-growth tech company preferred
  • Diverse body of work, including inbound and outbound contracts

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