Senior commercial counsel

✍🏽 About Writer

Writer is the full-stack generative AI platform delivering transformative ROI for the world’s leading enterprises. Named one of the top 50 companies in AI by Forbes, Writer empowers hundreds of customers like Accenture, Intuit, L’Oreal, and Vanguard to transform the way they work. 

Our all-in-one solution makes it easy to deploy customized AI apps and workflows that accelerate growth, increase productivity, and ensure compliance. Designed to provide enterprise-grade accuracy, security, and efficiency, Writer’s suite of development tools is supported by Palmyra – Writer’s state-of-the-art family of LLMs – alongside our industry-leading graph-based RAG and customizable AI guardrails. 

Founded in 2020 with offices in San Francisco, New York City, and London, Writer is backed by strategic investors, including ICONIQ Growth, Insight Partners, WndrCo, Balderton Capital, and Aspect Ventures. 

Our team of over 200 employees thinks big and moves fast, and we’re looking for smart, hardworking builders and scalers to join us on our journey to create a better future of work.

📐 About this role :

Do you want to help build and scale a commercial legal function from the ground up? Do you enjoy thinking at a strategic level and rolling up your sleeves to get things done? Then look no further. We are a small, yet mighty team of lawyers and are  looking for an experienced commercial legal professional to help support our rapidly-growing sales org, foster Writer’s mission to build the generative AI platform for the enterprise, and continue our mission of building a legal team that does things differently.  Reporting to our Head of Commercial, you will work together to build and scale Writer’s commercial legal function, and provide additional legal support across the company on additional projects as necessary. Let’s break the mold together, not be afraid to think outside the box, and have some fun building something special. 

🦸🏻‍♀️ Your responsibilities:

• Provide legal advice and support on a wide range of commercial matters, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating in-bound and outbound commercial agreements along with supporting our strategic partnerships team  - particularly with large, enterprise companies.  SaaS experience is a must have

• Create thoughtful processes that benefit the business (not just legal) and support our internal stakeholders

• Help train and enable the sales and other go-to-market teammates on navigating our commercial agreements in order to accelerate sales cycles

• Go above and beyond - find creative ways to bring value to the legal team and Writer as a whole (building and improving on contract management tools, creating helpful workflows, systems and policies… you get the idea!)
  

⭐️ Is this you? 

• Law degree from an accredited law school and admitted to practice law in the U.S.

• 7+ years of experience where you’ve spent the majority of time working in-house supporting a SaaS-based platform

• Experience negotiating commercial contracts with large enterprise companies  (bonus points if you’ve navigated the end of month/quarter/year sales rush and lived to tell the tale)

• You are a business person first that also happens to be a lawyer (check your legalese at the door!)

• You are curious, reliable, like to move fast, and have a low ego

• You are a great communicator and are solutions-oriented

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🍩 Benefits & perks

• Generous PTO, plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family

• Paid parental leave for all parents (12 weeks)

• Fertility and family planning support

• Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri

• Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options

• Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution

• Annual work-life stipends for:

  • Home office setup, cell phone, internet

  • Wellness stipend for gym, massage/chiropractor, personal training, etc.

  • Learning and development stipend

• Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites

• Competitive compensation, company stock options and 401k

Writer is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to diversity. We don't make hiring or employment decisions based on race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state or federal law. Under the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.