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.