Commercial Counsel
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Enterprise conversational-AI platform that helps businesses build and operate customer-experience agents across channels.
San Francisco, United States
About Sierra
Sierra provides an AI platform for businesses to build, deploy, analyze, and optimize customer-facing agents across chat, SMS, WhatsApp, email, voice, and ChatGPT.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will structure, negotiate, and advise on commercial agreements, including SaaS subscriptions, technology licenses, services agreements, partner agreements, vendor agreements, and NDAs. You will develop templates, playbooks, and workflows, advise on contract, IP, privacy, and AI matters, and partner with Sales, Operations, and Agent Development.
Requirements
- 2–6 years of legal experience combining large law firm and in-house tech company experience
- Experience negotiating and managing complex commercial contracts
- Commercial contracting background in SaaS, AI, or enterprise software
- Strong written and verbal communication
- Ability to partner with legal and non-legal stakeholders
- Ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced startup environment
Responsibilities
- Structure, negotiate, and advise on commercial contracts
- Develop commercial contract templates, playbooks, and workflows
- Advise on contract law, IP, privacy, AI, and contractual issues
- Assess risk and make strategic legal decisions
- Collaborate with Sales, Operations, and Agent Development to support revenue growth and strategic initiatives
Benefits
- Flexible unlimited paid time off
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits for employees and their families
- Life insurance and disability benefits
- Retirement plan dependent on country of employment
- Parental leave
- Fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot
- Lunch, snacks, and coffee
- Discretionary benefit stipend
- Free alphorn lessons
- Equity plan participation