Director, Legal Counsel - Commercial Cloud Transactions
Crusoe is an AI infrastructure company that designs, builds, and operates AI data centers and a cloud platform. It provides managed AI services, GPU compute, model fine-tuning and inference, and infrastructure operations for organizations building and deploying AI workloads.
Maintainer signals as of 8/20/2026
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About Crusoe
Crusoe, the AI factory company, provides Crusoe Cloud and Crusoe Intelligence Foundry for AI development and production. Its offerings include managed inference, serverless fine-tuning, high-performance NVIDIA and AMD compute, accelerated storage, RDMA networking, managed Kubernetes and Slurm, and operations tooling. The company also designs, builds, and operates modular AI data-center infrastructure using an energy-first approach, serving customers that need scalable training, inference, and AI platform infrastructure.
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About the Role
You will serve as a senior legal advisor for commercial contracting and strategic business initiatives. You will draft, review, and negotiate SaaS, software licensing, cloud services, AI-enabled offerings, data processing, professional services, and strategic partnership agreements. You will advise stakeholders, improve contracting processes, support pricing and commercial model initiatives, manage approval workflows, and use AI legal technology tools.
Requirements
- Juris Doctor from an accredited law school
- Active bar admission in good standing
- Eight or more years of relevant in-house or law firm experience supporting technology transactions
- Extensive experience negotiating SaaS, software, cloud services, professional services, data processing, strategic partnership, and enterprise commercial agreements
- Understanding of cloud services, software licensing, information security, privacy, intellectual property, and regulatory considerations
- Experience supporting AI-enabled products and emerging technology issues
- Experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial and software agreements
- Proficiency with AI and legal technology tools, Microsoft O365, Google Workspace, and contract management software such as Ironclad
Responsibilities
- Lead customer, procurement, and strategic commercial negotiations
- Draft, review, and negotiate software, SaaS, cloud services, AI-related, and partnership agreements
- Drive deals from intake through signature
- Advise internal stakeholders on commercial, operational, and strategic issues
- Improve contracting processes, standard forms, and playbooks
- Use AI legal technology tools to improve efficiency
- Lead strategic pricing and pricing governance initiatives
- Support commercial model optimization
- Prioritize contracts in the internal approval workflow
- Respond to stakeholder and client questions
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity packages
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off
- Paid holidays
- Leave of absence programs
- Comprehensive health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance
- Short-term disability insurance
- Long-term disability insurance
- Professional development
- Tuition reimbursement
- Mental health and wellness support
- Commuter benefits
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
- Volunteer time off
- Global travel insurance and emergency assistance
- Daily meals allowance
- Additional location-specific perks and programs
