Legal Counsel Commercial
Wayve is a London-headquartered embodied-AI company developing and licensing mapless, vehicle-agnostic driving software for assisted, automated, and robotaxi applications.
About Wayve
Wayve Technologies Ltd. develops the Wayve AI Driver, an end-to-end, data-trained software platform that runs on onboard vehicle compute and native sensors. It is designed for OEM integration across L1 driver assistance through L4 automated driving, without HD maps.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will advise on commercial, procurement, supply-chain, technology, and vendor matters. You will draft and negotiate contracts, support complex OEM and Tier 1 transactions, advise on related product and privacy issues, manage external counsel, and build scalable legal processes for market expansion.
Requirements
- License to practice law in California
- Three or more years of relevant legal experience, including at least two years of law-firm experience and some in-house experience
- Experience drafting and negotiating complex procurement, supply-chain, technology, and vendor agreements
- Experience supporting strategic commercial transactions in technology-driven environments
- Legal analysis, pragmatic communication, and stakeholder-management skills
- Commercial judgment and legal-risk assessment skills
- Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple workstreams
- Experience partnering with senior business stakeholders
Responsibilities
- Advise on global procurement, supply-chain, technology, vendor-management, and US commercial matters
- Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements, including procurement, supplier, services, software, data, licensing, and consulting contracts
- Support strategic OEM and Tier 1 supplier transactions
- Advise on product, marketing, intellectual property, data privacy, and corporate matters
- Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to provide commercial legal advice
- Develop scalable legal processes, templates, playbooks, and governance structures
- Manage external counsel and coordinate cross-border legal advice
- Support strategic initiatives, market expansion, and product deployments
- Educate stakeholders on commercial risk, contracting practices, and legal processes
Benefits
- Hybrid working policy