Commercial Counsel

Exa Labs Inc.

• $150K — $180K *
Legal & Accounting
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Juris Doctor (JD), LLB, or equivalent with local licensing to practice
  • 3-5 years of substantial commercial legal experience, particularly in EMEA and APJ
  • Proficiency in working across various time zones
  • Demonstrated experience in building legal processes and systems
  • Familiarity with AI tools and their application in legal tasks
  • Strong communication skills for cross-functional collaboration
  • Self-starter mentality suited for a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

  • Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements
  • Collaborate with GTM and other teams for deal acceleration
  • Develop and implement legal templates, playbooks, and processes
  • Advise on compliance, data privacy, and legal operations
  • Support legal infrastructure scaling as the organization grows

Benefits

  • Flexible working arrangements considered
  • Opportunity to shape the legal function of a leading AI company
  • Work directly with key business units to influence deal-making
  • Join a small, impactful team with a startup culture
  • Access to cutting-edge AI technologies within the legal domain
Full Job Description
About the Role

You will be an early legal hire and help scale a world class legal function at a leading AI company. In this role, you'll partner closely with GTM and other teams to negotiate and close enterprise customer deals, focusing on the East Coast and EMEA and APJ regions. You'll also handle a range of other commercial work, including data licensing and procurement. As an early legal hire, you'll also help shape the templates, playbooks, and processes that form the company's legal foundation. You'll also provide substantial support in other areas, including compliance, data privacy, and legal operations.

For this role, we expect the ability to work from our San Francisco or New York offices 5 days a week, though we encourage you to apply even if you might need some flexibility for a period of time.

Responsibilites:

Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial agreements, including customer, data licensing, and vendor contracts
  • Partner closely with GTM and other teams to enable deal velocity and provide practical legal guidance
  • Help build and scale the legal infrastructure, including contract templates, playbooks, and processes
  • Provide guidance on compliance, data privacy, and legal operations


What you bring:
  • A law degree (JD, LLB, or equivalent) and meet the local licensing requirements to work as in-house counsel where you'll be based
  • At least 3-5 years of legal experience, with substantial commercial legal experience in EMEA and APJ
  • Experience working effectively across time zones, particularly with teams in EMEA and APJ
  • Experience building processes and systems from the ground up
  • Experience leveraging AI tools in your daily work
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to translate legal advice for cross-functional teams
  • Embody our values of humility, urgency, and agency
  • A self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, small-team environment

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