Senior Commercial Counsel

About the role

In this role, you'll own and elevate Human Interest's commercial legal function. We're looking for a senior commercial attorney to take ownership and set the standard for how commercial legal work gets done here.

Responsibilities

• Lead commercial contracting end to end: Structure, draft, and negotiate the full range of agreements that keep the business moving, including customer contracts, partnerships (including white-label), vendor and SaaS agreements, and NDAs.
• You take the lead on our most complex, highest-stakes deals and the sophisticated counterparties behind them, with a Contracts Manager handling high-volume and routine work.
• Own the data and privacy terms in the deal: Negotiate DPAs and the data rights, security, and confidentiality provisions that sit at the center of a financial-data business, and know when a financial-privacy or information-security question needs a specialist alongside you.
• Handle the AI terms: Negotiate the AI and data use provisions that increasingly show up in both outbound and inbound contracts, and turn them into positions the business understands.
• Be the trusted advisor to the business: Be the responsive, go-to resource that gives clear, practical guidance and gets deals done, whether you're talking to a sales rep or a counterparty's general counsel.
• Spot issues and pull in the right experts: Recognize when a deal raises questions beyond commercial, such as ERISA and fiduciary, investment adviser, securities, employment, consumer marketing, or product, and bring in the right expert at the right time while keeping ownership and driving the deal to close.
• Make the function faster and more scalable: Set and execute the strategy for how the function scales, including leading our CLM implementation, building the templates, playbooks, and self-service that let the business move quickly, and folding AI and other tools into the workflow.
• Raise the legal IQ of the business: Equip go-to-market, procurement, and other teams to handle routine matters themselves, and mentor the Contracts Manager and other colleagues as the function grows.
• Partner with Product Counsel to advise on the commercial side and build out terms of use and other foundational commercial documentation that new products and features need.
• Grow beyond commercial: Take on corporate, governance, and other projects as the team needs.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of legal experience, including substantial in-house time at a high-growth, fast-paced company, ideally one that has scaled quickly.
• A deep commercial contracting background, whether you've run a function or worked on a sophisticated team, drafting and negotiating a broad range of B2B and B2C agreements.
• Strong command of IP and technology licensing, SaaS terms, and data rights.
• Working fluency with data protection and privacy frameworks as they arise in commercial deals, including DPAs, data processing and security terms, and the added sensitivity of financial data.
• Experience practicing in a highly regulated industry.
• A track record leading complex, high-stakes negotiations directly with sophisticated counterparties, including Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies.
• Extensive experience advising internal business stakeholders in real time and turning legal conclusions into practical guidance.
• Admitted to the bar and in good standing, or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., registered in-house status) in any state.

Compensation

The base salary for this position spans $200,000 - $240,000 annually and represents the minimum in our lowest geographic region to a maximum in our highest geographic region. The salary we offer to a new employee within this range is based on their location within the U.S., their relevant job-related skills, and experience.