Counsel, Commercial

What You’ll Do

Snorkel AI is looking for a Counsel, Commercial to join our growing Legal team, reporting to Snorkel’s Associate General Counsel, Commercial. This is a key role across Snorkel’s commercial contracting function, including vendor agreements and customer agreements.

You will serve as a trusted legal partner to business teams across the company, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts while helping build scalable processes. You’ll work closely with cross-functional stakeholders, combining strong commercial legal skills with the hands-on, execution-oriented approach required in a fast-growing technology company.

This hybrid role is based in San Francisco or New York City.

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts, including vendor and customer agreements, NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, order forms, and other commercial arrangements.
• Serve as a trusted legal partner to cross-functional teams on commercial contracts.
• Manage a high volume of contracts and competing priorities, ensuring timely execution and alignment with business objectives.
• Review and negotiate commercial agreement efficiently and identity when issues require escalation or cross-functional input.
• Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of contract templates, playbooks, and negotiation guidelines to drive consistency and efficiency across the commercial contracting process.
• Manage contract workflows and lifecycle processes, including intake, routing, approval, execution, and archival.
• Support the Associate General Counsel, Commercial on ad hoc legal projects and other matters as needed.

Who You Are

Minimum Qualifications

• J.D. and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 3–5 years of relevant commercial or transactional legal experience in-house.
• Strong experience drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, including vendor agreements, customer agreements, NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, and order forms.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly to business stakeholders.
• Experience with Ironclad or similar contract lifecycle management (CLM) platforms.
• Comfort with using AI workflows and operating in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong business judgment and the ability to balance legal risk with business objectives in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to manage a high volume of contracts and competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience at a technology, AI company, or at a high-growth startup.
• Experience helping build or improve contracting workflows, templates, or vendor review processes. 
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where priorities evolve and the Legal team is expected to be both strategic and highly execution-oriented.