Senior Commercial Counsel

Rescale is the platform engineering and science teams use to run their hardest computational work. You'll serve as the primary point-of-contact for the GTM team and negotiate commercial contracts including customer agreements, DPAs, order forms, partner and reseller agreements, vendor contracts, and NDAs. As an early member of the legal team, you'll help establish the legal infrastructure to scale: playbooks and templates, contract automation, AI-assisted review and drafting, earlier product counseling, and more mature privacy and compliance operations.

Responsibilities

Serve as primary point-of-contact for the GTM team and negotiate commercial contracts including customer agreements, DPAs, order forms, partner and reseller agreements, vendor contracts, and NDAs; Draft, review, and negotiate the commercial book: SaaS customer agreements, order forms, DPAs, partner and channel agreements, vendor contracts, and NDAs; Run deals end to end as the legal point of contact, pulling in finance, security, product, and engineering when a deal needs them; Maintain the standard legal toolkit: MSA, DPA, NDA, and SOW templates, negotiation playbooks, and self-service paths so sales can move on routine paper without waiting on legal; Design and stand up AI and automation workflows for contract intake, review, and drafting; Train and equip GTM and cross-functional teams so good legal judgment is built into how the business operates from the start

Requirements

JD and active bar admission in good standing in at least one US jurisdiction; 5+ years of commercial transactional experience, in-house or at a firm, with real depth in SaaS and technology agreements; A track record of running commercial deals independently and getting to signature without hand-holding; Strong legal operations instincts; Sound business judgment; Fluency with privacy requirements in commercial contracting, including DPAs, data-handling terms, and cross-border transfer obligations; Excellent communication skills, written and verbal; Comfort in a fast-moving, lean team where you own outcomes and figure things out

Nice to have

Time inside a software or technology company; experience with AI products; counseling product and engineering teams; export control; government and public sector contracting