# Commercial Counsel

**Company**: Black Forest Labs
**Location**: Freiburg im Breisgau, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, San Francisco, California, United States
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $200,000-$275,000 + Equity
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're seeking a sharp, motivated, and commercially minded Commercial Counsel to join BFL's legal team. You will support a broad range of commercial transactions spanning our US and EU go-to-market deals. This is a high-ownership role in which you will draft and review agreements, lead negotiations, and serve as a trusted advisor to the business on all things commercial.

Key responsibilities include:

- Draft and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including API licensing, enterprise SaaS, model access and deployment, partnerships, vendor agreements, and NDAs

- Support US and EU commercial transactions, with a primary focus on US deals across a variety of industry verticals, and advise on matters of German corporate law

- Partner closely with the GTM, Marketing, FDE, Infrastructure, and Finance teams to provide practical, deal-enabling legal guidance

- Advise on AI-specific legal considerations, including IP ownership and licensing, training data rights, and evolving regulatory requirements for generative AI

- Develop and maintain scalable legal frameworks, contract templates, playbooks, and approval workflows

- Engage with outside counsel on complex or specialized matters and manage those relationships efficiently

- Contribute to company-wide compliance and legal operations initiatives as the legal team scales

Requirements include:

- 7+ years of legal experience, with time spent on commercial transactions in the technology sector; ideally spanning both in-house and external firms

- Demonstrated experience negotiating and closing complex technology agreements, including software licensing, API and platform deals, data and content agreements, and partnership contracts

- Prior experience supporting both US and EU commercial deals, with comfort navigating cross-border transactions and a strong awareness of key jurisdictional differences

- Excellent drafting and negotiation skills, with the ability to identify material issues quickly and communicate them clearly to non-lawyers

- Low ego, high accountability; equally comfortable rolling up your sleeves on routine agreements as you are handling high-stakes or novel deal structures

Preferred qualifications include:

- Experience with AI/ML, developer platforms, or foundational model licensing

- Exposure to generative AI in prior roles is strongly preferred; familiarity with how AI products are built, licensed, and deployed will meaningfully accelerate your effectiveness in this role

- JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership in at least one US jurisdiction; qualification in a UK or EU jurisdiction is highly preferred

- Familiarity with German corporate law, the EU AI Act, GDPR, or other international regulatory frameworks relevant to AI and data

- Background advising on IP, copyright, or data licensing matters in the context of AI training or model development

Everything we do is grounded in four values: obsessed, low ego, bold, and kind. If this sounds like work you'd enjoy, we'd love to hear from you.

## Skills

### Required
- drafting and negotiation of commercial agreements
- AI-specific legal considerations
- German corporate law
- EU AI Act
- GDPR
- IP ownership and licensing
- training data rights

### Nice to have
- AI/ML
- developer platforms
- foundational model licensing
- generative AI
- JD from an accredited law school
- active bar membership in at least one US jurisdiction

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