Director and Commercial Counsel (AI Infrastructure)

Location: Hybrid in Durham, North Carolina or Fremont, California, with onsite work three days per week; strong remote candidates may work from the United States. Periodic travel to the California Bay Area may be required.

Base pay: $225,000–$260,000 annually, plus bonus eligibility and benefits.

Company

hirify.global designs, builds, deploys, and manages AI factories, computing, memory, and high-performance enterprise infrastructure solutions.

What you will do

• Own complex commercial transactions from structuring through negotiation and execution.
• Draft and negotiate enterprise customer, vendor, supplier, procurement, manufacturing, logistics, and distribution agreements.
• Advise on delivery, acceptance, performance standards, warranties, support models, liability, and downstream obligations for AI infrastructure and hardware deployments.
• Partner with sales, product, finance, operations, supply chain, and other business teams to enable strategic transactions.
• Develop contract templates, playbooks, scalable contracting processes, and training for business stakeholders.
• Identify and escalate regulatory, compliance, export-control, and other non-standard risks.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing.
• 12+ years of relevant legal experience with substantial commercial contracting expertise.
• Demonstrated ability to independently negotiate complex customer and vendor agreements.
• Experience supporting technology, hardware, infrastructure, or supply chain-driven businesses.
• Strong business judgment, communication skills, autonomy, organization, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Comfort working in a remote, fast-paced environment and using AI tools in legal workflows.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI infrastructure, data centers, memory systems, or advanced computing.
• Familiarity with export controls or regulated customer environments.
• In-house experience at a high-growth technology or infrastructure company.
• Prior law firm experience handling complex commercial transactions.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, low-ego, and team-oriented environment with autonomy and accountability.
• Exposure to AI systems, memory architectures, data center infrastructure, and advanced computing.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) savings plan, paid time off, life insurance, and employee assistance plan.
• Purposeful travel planned around customer, transaction, and team meetings.