Commercial Counsel

About the role

SF Compute is seeking a Commercial Counsel to support the growth of our AI infrastructure business. This role will collaborate with various teams to draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, ensuring alignment with business objectives while managing risk.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, negotiate, and manage commercial agreements, including enterprise customer agreements, master services agreements, vendor agreements, technology agreements, strategic partnerships, NDAs, and other similar contracts.
• Partner with Sales, Business Development, Finance, Operations, and Engineering teams to structure deals that align with business objectives while appropriately managing legal and commercial risk.
• Support commercial transactions involving AI infrastructure, compute services, data center operations, technology partnerships, and other strategic initiatives.
• Develop and improve contract processes, playbooks, and frameworks that enable teams to move faster while maintaining appropriate controls.
• Identify and proactively address legal, regulatory, privacy, intellectual property, and operational considerations impacting commercial activities.
• Work cross-functionally with internal stakeholders and external partners to drive deals from initial discussions through execution.
• Bring strong ownership and judgment to new and evolving legal challenges as the company scales.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have a JD from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar (California preferred), with 3-5+ years of legal experience, including experience at a leading law firm and/or in-house legal team. Strong experience drafting and negotiating a broad range of complex commercial technology agreements is required, particularly in technology companies, cloud infrastructure, AI, data centers, SaaS, hardware, or other technical businesses.

Qualifications

• Strong experience supporting technology companies, cloud infrastructure, AI, data centers, SaaS, hardware, or other technical businesses.
• Ability to understand complex technical products and translate business objectives into practical legal solutions.
• Comfortable operating independently in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with evolving priorities.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trusted relationships across technical and non-technical teams.

Skills

• Strong negotiation and drafting skills.
• Experience with technology and AI-related contracts.
• Ability to work independently and in a team setting.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Benefits

• Generous equity grant
• Competitive salary
• Retirement matching
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Unlimited paid time off
• 10+ observed holidays
• Parental leave
• Bi-weekly lunch
• Office book budget

Pay

Competitive salary with equity

Schedule

Based in San Francisco, requires working onsite five days per week.