Legal Counsel Commercial, Remote Work

Our partner is looking for a Commercial Counsel based in Spain. As Commercial Counsel, you’ll be the first dedicated legal hire supporting a rapidly growing AI business with complex commercial and regulatory needs. You’ll take ownership of customer, supplier, and partner agreements, handling drafting and negotiations under US law from initial review through signature or resolution. A key part of the role will be addressing emerging AI-contracting questions around data use, training, output ownership, liability, and warranties. You’ll also provide practical guidance on data protection, enterprise deals, diligence, and legal readiness across a cross-border organization. Working closely with Finance, founders, customers, and external advisers, you’ll build reusable templates, negotiation positions, and workflows that make legal work more efficient. You’ll have significant autonomy in a small, high-trust environment where decisions are made by owners and legal judgment directly influences commercial outcomes. This is an opportunity to build a legal function from the ground up while staying deeply involved in the business and the deals it signs. Accountabilities
- Review, draft, and negotiate customer, supplier, and partner agreements under US law, including SaaS terms, order forms, NDAs, and DPAs.
- Provide clear, commercially practical legal recommendations and remain involved with matters through signature, resolution, or final escalation.
- Own AI-specific contracting issues, including data use and training, ownership of outputs, liability allocation, warranties, and related commercial risks.
- Lead legal readiness for enterprise transactions and due diligence processes.
- Develop and maintain practical contract templates, negotiation positions, and an organized contract archive covering recurring commercial, AI, and data issues.
- Own practical data-protection work by translating regulatory and specialist advice into clear actions, owners, deadlines, and follow-up.
- Manage relationships with external counsel, including preparing briefs, coordinating advice, monitoring budgets, and engaging jurisdiction-specific or specialist advisers when required.
- Support fundraising and corporate transactions, including maintaining records, approvals, filing deadlines, and authorities across US, Polish, and German entities.
- Coordinate legal matters across jurisdictions while recognizing the limits of US-law expertise and involving appropriate local or specialist counsel when necessary.
- Improve legal intake, drafting, obligation tracking, and administrative workflows through approved AI tools combined with appropriate human review.
- Track legal obligations after contracts are signed and ensure relevant teams understand material commitments and follow-up actions.
- Build and maintain a prioritized legal-readiness roadmap covering enterprise reviews, data protection, and relevant AI regulatory requirements.
- Establish practical workflows for external-counsel briefs, budgets, advice, and outstanding corporate-support matters. Requirements
- Admission to practice in a US state with substantial hands-on experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements governed by US law.
- Demonstrable experience personally handling agreements such as SaaS contracts, order forms, NDAs, DPAs, and other B2B commercial agreements.
- Strong commercial judgment and the ability to distinguish material business risks from non-critical drafting preferences.
- Ability to propose practical, workable alternatives that support commercial objectives while appropriately managing legal risk. -