# Commercial Counsel - Procurement

**Company**: xAI
**Location**: Palo Alto, CA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $225,000 - $285,000 USD
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q120599684

**Apply**: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/xai/jobs/5013537007
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_b680a85a-246

## Description

As a Commercial Counsel at xAI, you'll support procurement efforts by negotiating high-value deals for software, SaaS, hardware, infrastructure, services, and more. You'll work closely with the Data Center and Procurement Lead to tackle complex agreements, ensure compliance, and streamline processes in a fast-paced environment.

Responsibilities:

- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements for frontier AI companies.

- Partner closely with engineering, finance, and operations teams to align contracts with business needs.

- Create processes, templates, and playbooks to support efficient and scalable contracting.

- Be extremely versatile, highly responsive, and pitch in for anything needed in the Legal department.

Basic Qualifications:

- 5-10 years of legal experience, ideally through a combination of experience at innovative technology companies and/or excellent law firms.

- Experience in commercial contracting, with a focus on procurement in technology or infrastructure sectors.

- Proven track record of negotiating complex deals for software, SaaS, hardware, data licenses, capital equipment, or AI-related technologies.

- Tech-savvy with an understanding or keen interest in data centers and emerging technologies like AI.

- Strong sense of ownership, inquisitive, and enthusiastic about technology, with sound judgment in ambiguous situations.

Compensation and Benefits:

- $225,000 - $285,000 USD base salary, plus equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

## Skills

### Required
- commercial contracting
- procurement
- software
- SaaS
- hardware
- infrastructure
- services
- data licenses
- capital equipment
- AI-related technologies
- data centers
- emerging technologies