Alembic Commercial Counsel at Alembic to own commercial contracting end-to-end including negotiation of master agreements and data protection compliance. Partner with multiple departments to support sales and infrastructure legal needs.
Responsibilities
Legal at Alembic is not a review queue. Our Patent Attorney sits in the codebase with the scientists. Our Commercial Counsel sits in the room where deals get done — on both sides of the table.
We’re looking for a Commercial Counsel to own Alembic’s commercial contracting end to end. You’ll report to our Head of Corporate Legal and be the person Sales, Finance, Partnerships, Security and Infrastructure come to when something needs to move.
If you want a defined slice of a twelve-lawyer department, this isn’t it. If you want to build a commercial legal function at a Series B company and have it be visibly, unambiguously yours, keep reading.
Own the enterprise deal desk. Lead negotiation of master agreements, order forms, DPAs, security exhibits and NDAs with Fortune 100 customers and their procurement organizations. You’re the single legal point of contact on every deal, and the reason deals close on time.
Build the playbook. Create the templates, fallback positions and escalation paths that let Sales self-serve on standard terms — so Legal becomes a speed advantage rather than the last gate before signature.
Paper the partnerships. Structure and negotiate reseller, co-sell, SI and strategic alliance agreements, including with partners who are also investors and customers.
Secure the stack. Serve as legal lead on the infrastructure behind our causal engine — compute and capacity, colocation, hardware procurement, data licensing and the vendors who support it — and keep supplier terms aligned with the commitments we’ve already made to customers.
Defend the data. Own the data-protection and AI-regulatory posture that enterprise security reviews live or die on: GDPR, CCPA, DPAs, sub-processor chains, and the emerging AI rules our customers are already asking about.
Support what’s next. Partner with the Head of Corporate Legal on financing and strategic transactions, and on the diligence and contract work that follows them.
What Will Help You Succeed
A JD and active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar — California preferred, or eligible to register as in-house counsel here.
5–9 years in commercial and technology transactions, with substantial in-house time at a high-growth technology company. Big-law training plus an in-house tour is the classic shape.
Qualification
Substantial in-house experience
Required
JD and active membership in good standing of at least one US state bar
5–9 years in commercial and technology transactions
