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Senior Commercial Counsel at Synthesia | LAYIQ

Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements to support sales, partnerships, and our purchase of software and services from vendors. Your primary focus will be on our service agreements, software licenses, data processing agreements, and NDAs for our prospective customers. We’ll ask you to draw from the experience you’ve gained from supporting hundreds or thousands of commercial transactions to help define business terms and structure deals in an optimal way; Advising on a variety of areas ranging from intellectual property, data privacy, data security, software licensing agreements, and go-to-market strategy; Providing input on processes, policies, and playbooks to help scale the organization and make our team more effective and efficient; Providing effective advice by staying up-to-date on relevant industry, commercial, open source, IP, privacy, employment, AI, and other laws, regulations, and developments; Developing the company’s knowledge in areas of special interest, including intellectual property, data protection, financial services, healthcare, AI governance, and other regulatory matters; Operating independently and providing practical, decisive guidance to our business teams that balances business objectives with legal risk, taking into account our company policies, practices and negotiation positions.
You’re a great fit for the role if have the following characteristics: Completion of a law degree from an accredited U.S. institution, and qualified to practice law as an in-house U.S. attorney; 6+ years of post-qualification experience working on different kinds of commercial transactions (e.g., SaaS, IP licensing, software licensing, product resale, and distribution, working with contractors, outsourcing, facilities, etc.), including with large enterprise companies, companies in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, etc.), government, and edu companies; Experience working in an in-house legal department in the tech sector; bonus points for an AI company.
Comfortable negotiating data processing agreements, including a working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA as they relate to commercial contracts; Clean and concise drafting of documents, policies, Slack messages, emails, and other communications in a manner that is digestible for non-lawyers; Experience negotiating with enterprise customers, including on the customer’s form; Understanding of cloud services, technology, and professional services contracts; Knowledge of non-legal business processes gained in-house relating to sales operations and revenue recognition (i.e. experience with Order Forms and Statements of Work); Experience managing workload on tight timelines with multiple competing demands; and
Exposure and experience negotiating artificial intelligence terms, including an understanding of AI models, IP ownership of inputs to and output from the models, and the use of training data for building such models.
At Synthesia we expect everyone to...
Put the Customer First
Own it & Go Direct
Be Fast & Experimental
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In addition to being a part of a great team, working in a fun and innovative environment, we offer:
A competitive salary + stock options in our fast-growing Series E startup
Hybrid working environment
100% Medical, Dental & Vision
401k Plan + company match
Paid parental leave
25 days of annual leave + Public holidays + paid sick leave
Fun culture with regular socials
A generous referral scheme
A brand new computer + monitor
Location
: Hybrid: New York City or Austin, Texas.
Compensation: $175,000- $210,000 + equity. The final compensation package will be determined based on experience and qualifications.

Senior Commercial Counsel

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