Senior Counsel, Commerical Transactions Lead

The Role

This is an outstanding opportunity for an experienced and multi-facted commercial attorney to lead Bedrock’s transactions practice as Bedrock shapes its contractor, OEM and technical partnership strategies in a rapidly growing and transformative category. If you’re passionate about creating industry-first deal frameworks, commercial counseling, and changing the way the world builds, come and join this bold team.

This Senior Counsel, Commercial Transactions Lead will own and support a wide range of matters, including drafting and negotiating new agreements that govern contractor engagement, autonomous software and service offerings, and commercial partnerships with a broad range of ecosystem participants; and counseling business clients on data, intellectual property, insurance, safety and privacy principles, including in completely novel environments.

You’ll also support strategic programs as a critical team member, working closely with cross-functional business colleagues to launch innovative products and initiatives — commercializing technology in a partnered ecosystem that builds on the real world starts with a transaction; it doesn’t end there.

This position is part of the Bedrock legal team and can be located in San Francisco, CA or New York, NY.

What You’ll Do

• Bring commercial and tech transactions experience and insight to the team, finding creative solutions to white space issues that arise when introducing new technologies to established industries.
• Engage and negotiate with external partners with full-view integration of risk and legal controls in commercial agreements and other outward-facing terms.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues on cross-functional teams, integrating your commercial capabilities with guidance across multiple areas — Safety, Product, Intellectual Property, Insurance, Employment and Privacy — to operationalize commercial partnerships and create solutions that allow the business to move quickly and responsibly.
• Support new product offerings that support the built economy: Deploy your commercial perspective in reviewing related products and programs to ensure commercial, regulatory, and safety considerations flow through those initiatives.

What You’ll Bring

• J.D. and license to practice law in at least one state.
• Minimum of 8 years of commercial legal experience in private practice, in-house and/or government.
• Commercial and contracting experience in a software- or service-intensive industry across multiple markets, delivering clear, actionable terms for clients, customers and partners.
• Experience with software services agreements, automated vehicles, construction or scaled fleets.
• Demonstrated ability to draft contract language efficiently and effectively both with and without the assistance of templates or prior agreements.

Location Requirements

• Hybrid 2-3x per week in office, New York or San Francisco Bay Area-based
• Regular in-person collaboration with engineering teams and leadership
• Occasional travel for company or industry events, and partnership meetings

Preferred Background

• At least two (2) years of in-house experience is preferred.
• Experience in an adjacent legal speciality relevant to construction technology or automated vehicle deployments, such as services and support offerings, field-deployed product, regulatory, privacy, insurance, real estate, or intellectual property.
• Excellent business judgment and high comfort level advising business teams on a wide range of legal issues related to technology and/or software platforms.
• Strong interpersonal skills and highly collaborative with both business leaders and legal groups, with strong ability to build relationships, gain credibility, and partner across functions to build consensus.
• Clear communicator, team orientated, and willing to take initiative while thinking two steps ahead.
• Confidence and flexibility to operate in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment.
• Inquisitiveness, along with the ability to spot issues, get to the heart of a matter, and articulate plans to address them.
• Passionate about your work and a desire to have a big impact.
• Enthusiastic about Bedrock and automating the built world!