Counsel, Commercial
About The Position
Snorkel AI is looking for a Counsel, Commercial to join our growing Legal team, reporting to Snorkel’s Associate General Counsel, Commercial. This is a key role across Snorkel’s commercial contracting function, including vendor agreements and customer agreements. You will serve as a trusted legal partner to business teams across the company, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts while helping build scalable processes. You’ll work closely with cross-functional stakeholders, combining strong commercial legal skills with the hands-on, execution-oriented approach required in a fast-growing technology company. This hybrid role is based in San Francisco or New York City.
Requirements
- J.D. and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- 3–5 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, with the ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly to business stakeholders.
- 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 Haves
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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, ensuring timely execution and alignment with business objectives.
- Review and negotiate commercial agreement efficiently and identity when issues require escalation or cross-functional input.
- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of contract templates, playbooks, and negotiation guidelines to drive consistency and efficiency across the commercial contracting process.
- 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.
Benefits
- market proven solutions
- robust funding
- scaling rapidly
- stability
- excitement of high growth
- meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives
- influence key strategic decisions
- directly impact our ongoing success
- deepen your technical expertise
- explore leadership opportunities
- learn new skills across multiple functions
- fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
