# Senior Counsel - Commercial

**Company**: Lambda
**Location**: San Francisco, California
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $210K - $305K
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers.

As Senior Counsel - Commercial, you'll join a lean, high-impact legal team where your work will immediately shape how Lambda scales. You will partner closely with senior leaders across the company to support complex, high-value deals while helping bring additional execution capacity to a fast-moving commercial legal function.

Responsibilities:

- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of high-value commercial agreements including customer contracts, data center service provider agreements, partner and reseller agreements, distributor arrangements, and marketing partnerships.

- Partner with the AGC to own and manage enterprise deal negotiations.

- Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Marketing, Product, and Finance teams to enable deals while ensuring appropriate legal risk management.

- Advise on contract structure and associated risks, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and legal requirements.

- Use legal technology and automation tools to streamline contracting processes, compliance tracking, and knowledge management.

- Identify and own improvements to the team's operations, templates, and playbooks.

- Operate independently and provide practical, decisive guidance to our business teams that balances business objectives with legal risk.

Requirements:

- J.D. degree from an accredited law school and membership in at least one U.S. state bar.

- 10+ years of legal experience, with at least 3 years in-house (ideally in the technology, cloud infrastructure, or SaaS sector).

- Extensive experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial transactions on the buy-side and sell-side.

- Growth mindset, enjoys working in a fast-paced environment and managing multiple concurrent projects and tasks to completion within the required time frame.

- Interest in growing your impact and responsibilities over time.

- Team mentality with the flexibility to address unique issues in real-time and the awareness to know when to bring in others.

Nice to Have:

- Experience in infrastructure-as-a-service industry.

- Familiarity with privacy, data security, and/or compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001) is strongly preferred.

Benefits:

- Generous cash & equity compensation.

- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents.

- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles.

- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees).

- Flexible paid time off plan.

## Skills

### Required
- J.D. degree
- membership in at least one U.S. state bar
- 10+ years of legal experience
- extensive experience drafting and negotiating complex commercial transactions

### Nice to have
- infrastructure-as-a-service industry
- privacy
- data security
- compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001)

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