Rescale

Senior Commercial Counsel

Rescale$120K — $160K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Legal & Accounting
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • JD and active bar admission in good standing in at least one US jurisdiction.
  • 5+ years of commercial transactional experience, particularly with SaaS and technology agreements.
  • Proven ability to independently run commercial deals to signature without extensive guidance.
  • Experience in designing or improving contracting processes with a legal operations mindset.
  • Strong business judgment with a pragmatic approach to redlining and risk assessment.
  • Knowledge of privacy requirements in commercial contracting, including DPAs and data-handling terms.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, capable of translating legal concepts for non-legal stakeholders.
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, lean team environment.

Responsibilities

  • Draft, review, and negotiate various commercial contracts including SaaS agreements, order forms, and NDAs.
  • Serve as the legal point of contact throughout the deal process, coordinating with finance, security, product, and engineering as needed.
  • Maintain and enhance the standard legal toolkit, including templates and negotiation playbooks, for efficient contract management.
  • Design and implement AI and automation workflows to streamline contract intake and drafting processes.
  • Train GTM and cross-functional teams to integrate good legal judgment into their operations from the outset.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to shape and build the legal infrastructure of an AI-native legal team.
  • Role within a fast-growing organization with potential for growth and innovation.
  • Collaborative work environment with close ties to cross-functional teams.
  • Emphasis on autonomy and ownership over your work and outcomes.
  • Possibility to experiment with and implement new legal tech solutions, including contract automation.
Full Job Description
The role

You'll serve as the primary point-of-contact for the GTM team and negotiate commercial contracts including customer agreements, DPAs, order forms, partner and reseller agreements, vendor contracts, and NDAs. You'll run priority commercial work independently, carry the day-to-day volume, and know when to escalate.

As an early member of the legal team, you'll help establish the legal infrastructure to scale: playbooks and templates, contract automation, AI-assisted review and drafting, earlier product counseling, and more mature privacy and compliance operations. We are looking for a builder - someone willing to experiment and help build an AI native legal team.
What you'll do
  • Draft, review, and negotiate the commercial book: 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, pulling in finance, security, product, and engineering when a deal needs them.
  • Maintain the standard legal toolkit: MSA, DPA, NDA, and SOW templates, negotiation playbooks, and self-service paths so sales can move on routine paper without waiting on legal.
  • Design and stand up AI and automation workflows for contract intake, review, and drafting.
  • Train and equip GTM and cross-functional teams so good legal judgment is built into how the business operates from the start.
What you bring
  • 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. Time inside a software or technology company is a plus.
  • A track record of running commercial deals independently and getting to signature without hand-holding.
  • Strong legal operations instincts. You think about process, templates, and automation, not just the contract in front of you, and you've built or improved a contracting process before.
  • Sound business judgment. You know which battles matter, you redline pragmatically, and you frame risk in terms the business can act on.
  • Fluency with privacy requirements in commercial contracting, including DPAs, data-handling terms, and cross-border transfer obligations.
  • Excellent communication skills, written and verbal. You write clearly and translate legal issues into terms the business can act on.
  • Comfort in a fast-moving, lean team where you own outcomes and figure things out.

Bonus: experience with AI products, counseling product and engineering teams, export control, or government and public sector contracting.

About Rescale

Rescale is a cloud computing company that enables engineers and scientists to run simulations and other compute-intensive workloads on a scalable, pay-per-use basis. The company's platform allows users to access a variety of high-performance computing resources, including CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs, as well as a range of software applications and tools. Rescale's customers include companies in a variety of industries, including aerospace, automotive, energy, and life sciences. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Learn more about Rescale
Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2011

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at Rescale

More Legal & Accounting Jobs

Find similar Senior Commercial Counsel jobs: