Commercial Counsel

The Role

Terabase is seeking a versatile, business-minded Commercial Counsel to serve as a key legal partner across sales, procurement, operations, and product contracting activities. This role will work closely with the VP of Legal to draft, review, negotiate, and manage a wide variety of commercial agreements.

• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, order forms, SaaS agreements, software and technology agreements, vendor agreements, procurement agreements, partner agreements, services agreements, and construction-related agreements.
• Support Sales, Supply Chain/Procurement, Operations, Product, Project Management, and other business teams with practical, business-oriented contracting guidance.
• Provide construction-aware legal support for EPC-adjacent, subcontractor, field services, robotics deployment, equipment, and project-based commercial arrangements.
• Identify, explain, and escalate legal and commercial risks in a clear, practical way that enables business stakeholders to make informed decisions.
• Help distinguish legal risk from business risk and support appropriate internal decision-making and approvals.
• Career progression
  Terabase offers competitive compensation along with a comprehensive benefits package, including: Generous time off and holiday policy, Remote flexibility, Flexible time off, Comprehensive benefits package, Career progression, 401k match, Stock options, Home office set up allowance, and much more!

Requirements

• Must-Have Qualifications:
  • JD and active license to practice law in the jurisdiction where the candidate resides.
  • 4-6+ years of commercial contracting experience, preferably in-house or in a business-facing commercial legal role.
  • Strong drafting, redlining, negotiation, and issue-spotting skills across a variety of commercial contracts.
  • Experience negotiating technology, construction, SaaS, software, services, vendor, customer, or procurement agreements.
  • Ability to manage multiple contracts and stakeholders at the same time while keeping deals moving.
  • Strong business judgment and ability to distinguish legal issues from commercial issues.
  • Clear, practical communication style with the ability to explain risk without over-lawyering.
  • Comfort with contract lifecycle activities beyond negotiation, including intake, routing, approvals, signature tracking, repository hygiene, and contract status management.
  • Interest in legal operations, process improvement, and scalable contracting systems.
  • Ability to work independently in a lean legal function and partner closely with non-lawyer business teams.
• Nice-to-Have Qualifications:
  • Experience with Ironclad or another CLM platform, including workflows, intake forms, templates, metadata, approvals, repository management, or reporting.
  • Experience with construction, EPC, infrastructure, renewable energy, robotics, hardware, field services, or project-based commercial frameworks.
  • Familiarity with solar, energy, construction technology, or utility-scale project development.
  • Experience building or improving contract playbooks, fallback positions, approval matrices, escalation procedures, or clause libraries.
  • Experience supporting deal desk, sales operations, procurement operations, or legal operations functions.
  • Comfort preparing internal approval materials, deal summaries, risk memos, or stakeholder-facing contract guidance.
  • Experience with contract data, reporting, dashboards, or contract lifecycle metrics.
  • Prior in-house legal experience at a growth-stage technology, energy, construction, or infrastructure company.