Commercial Counsel/Senior Commercial Counsel
About The Position
Instawork is on a mission to create meaningful economic opportunities for skilled hourly professionals in communities around the globe. Our AI-powered labor marketplace helps local businesses scale, and enables global technology companies to push the frontiers of robotics and AI. Backed by world-class investors like Benchmark, Spark Capital, Craft Ventures, Greylock, Y Combinator, and others, we’re looking for exceptional talent to reimagine the way the world works. We’re looking for an intellectually curious and pragmatic Commercial Counsel. Joining a growing team, you will help close deals with customers and vendors, provide advice to cross-functional teams, partner on cross-departmental product and compliance issues, evolve our growing robotics commercial stream, and more (so very much more). Reporting to our Chief Legal Officer, this role expands a small but scrappy Legal team and will be responsible for helping to scale legal functions at a company named one of Forbes’s 25 Next Billion Dollar Startups.
Requirements
- JD and California bar admission in good standing (or barred in NY or IL and qualified for and willing to maintain Registered In-House Counsel status with California State Bar)
- 5+ years of legal experience in a law firm including 1-2+ years in-house
- Detail- and process-oriented mentality
- Mature judgment and decision-making skills
- Ability to translate complex concepts and competing priorities into digestible guidance
- Team mentality and recognition that no task is too small
- Composure managing multiple projects with overlapping deadlines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Sense of perspective…and humor
Nice To Haves
- privacy and product counseling experience
Responsibilities
- Partner with Sales, Account Management, Robotics, Partner Operations, and Finance to close customer deals
- Review, redline, and approve sales agreements, vendor agreements, and NDAs
- Build and update playbooks and template documents and maintain our contract lifecycle management platform
- Support corporate development team in due diligence and contracts associated with corporate transactions
- Develop, implement, and improve scalable processes for the legal team
- Work with revenue enablement to improve sales team training
- Review and revise company policies
- Advise business and product teams on privacy and other compliance issues
- Other projects based on the needs of a quickly growing international company
Benefits
- A variety of medical, dental, and vision plans with coverage beginning on the date of hire
- Flexible paid time off
- At least 8 paid company holidays annually
- Phone stipend
- Commuter stipend
- Supplemental pay on qualified leaves
- Employee health savings accounts (HSA) contribution
- Flexible spending plans
- 401K plan
- Perkspot - discount program through Lumity
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
