Vice President, Commercial & Privacy
About The Position
As VP, Commercial & Privacy at Cerebras, you will negotiate high-impact commercial transactions supporting our global revenue team, as well as our procurement, engineering and information security functions. You will also own and scale our privacy compliance program as we expand globally. This role is pivotal to enabling scalable enterprise growth and ensuring legal integrity across complex, fast-evolving deal structures. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams—including sales, product, engineering, and procurement—to close deals while managing risk. As part of a team that supports cutting-edge AI and cloud technologies, you’ll help shape the legal frameworks that underpin our enterprise offerings. Your work will directly influence how we deliver value to customers and partners, ensuring that our contracts are not only compliant and enforceable, but also aligned with strategic business goals. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to transformative deals and help operationalize legal strategy in a high-growth environment. Executives are in-office, which enables critical business knowledge and organizational decisions in a fast-paced environment. So, this attorney will be required to join their colleagues in-office to maximize success in the role.
Requirements
- 12+ years of combined law firm and in-house experience, including significant leadership of complex commercial and technology transactions.
- Deep familiarity with cloud computing, AI infrastructure, and enterprise technology deal structures, as well as international data privacy, information security and procurement issues.
- Proven ability to manage high-value, multi-stakeholder transactions across enterprise and public-sector clients.
- Exceptional commercial judgment and confidence advising C-suite executives and business leaders.
- Experience managing and developing attorneys or commercial legal teams.
- Skilled at balancing risk and business priorities in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.
- D. and active bar membership required (California preferred).
Nice To Haves
- Exposure to data, privacy, or procurement issues preferred.
Responsibilities
- Lead, structure and negotiate the company’s most significant revenue and vendor agreements, including enterprise revenue contracts and strategic partnerships with major cloud and infrastructure providers.
- Support global sales and revenue teams on AI compute services agreements, including licensing, data use, and performance SLAs.
- Develop and drive legal strategy for cloud inference, SaaS, and hardware integration transactions, enabling scalable enterprise growth.
- Partner with engineering, product, procurement, and information security teams to align deal structures with business and technical objectives.
- Oversee privacy, product, and commercial compliance across the company’s AI and cloud offerings, including issues relating to international expansion.
- Lead and mentor a small commercial legal team, fostering professional growth and alignment with company goals.
- Build and refine legal operations systems, templates, playbooks, and negotiation frameworks to accelerate deal execution and consistency.
- Collaborate with senior leadership on cross functional projects, including IPO readiness.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
