Senior Commercial Counsel
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Modal Labs, Inc. operates Modal, a serverless cloud and AI infrastructure platform for developers running inference, training, batch processing, and isolated sandboxes.
Series CRecently funded33 current maintainers8 active leads16 lead step-downs5 early lead departuresTeam intelligence
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
New York City, United States
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About Modal
Modal provides code-first, elastic CPU/GPU compute infrastructure for AI workloads, including model inference, fine-tuning and training, large-scale batch jobs, and secure ephemeral execution environments.
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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 own customer and vendor contracting, negotiate commercial agreements, build contract repositories and playbooks, support contract lifecycle management, and review operational policies and customer-facing materials.
Requirements
- 8+ years of law firm and in-house experience negotiating commercial technology agreements
- JD and active New York or California bar membership
- Deep familiarity with SaaS contracting
- Extensive Ironclad or similar contract lifecycle management experience
- Ability to build templates and playbooks from scratch
- Working knowledge of GDPR, HIPAA, and regulatory data protection frameworks
- Sound commercial judgment
Responsibilities
- Own and negotiate customer contracts throughout the deal cycle
- Lead vendor-side contracting for procurement, SaaS tools, and consulting arrangements
- Build and maintain contract repositories, template libraries, and contract playbooks
- Partner on contract lifecycle management approval workflows and escalation logic
- Review and revise operational policies and customer-facing marketing materials