Senior Commercial Counsel - North America (AI)

Location: Remote; United States and Canada / North America market

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered identity verification and security solutions that help banks, fintechs, marketplaces, governments, and other organizations prevent fraud and protect privacy.

What you will do

• Own customer-facing commercial contracting across the U.S. and Canada from initial review through signature, including POC agreements, MSAs, DPAs, order forms, renewals, amendments, OEM and reseller agreements, and NDAs/MNDAs.
• Lead drafting, review, redlining, customer-paper negotiations, issue resolution, and final execution as the accountable owner for assigned deals.
• Advise Sales, Account Management, Customer Success, Product, Engineering, Privacy, InfoSec, and Legal Operations on commercial terms, product launches, go-to-market activities, and contracting workflows.
• Identify and mitigate legal, privacy, biometric, AI, consumer-protection, and regulatory risks across products, features, marketing communications, and customer commitments.
• Lead negotiations on limitation of liability, indemnification, term and renewal, SLAs, fees and pricing, intellectual property, trademark use, and termination.
• Monitor U.S. and Canadian legal and regulatory developments, translate complex issues into practical guidance, and integrate AI governance and ethics frameworks into product development.

Requirements

• J.D. or equivalent and admission to, with good standing in, at least one U.S. state bar.
• 7+ years of relevant experience as a commercial or technology transactions lawyer.
• Experience combining top law firm and in-house work at a fast-paced technology company is preferred within the required experience.
• Demonstrated success negotiating and closing complex customer agreements end-to-end, including agreements on customer paper.
• Strong working knowledge of North American data privacy law, including U.S. state privacy laws, biometric privacy statutes such as BIPA, PIPEDA, and Québec's Law 25, with the ability to apply it in commercial contracting with support from the Privacy Legal Team.
• Experience supporting customers in highly regulated environments such as financial services and banking, government or public sector, gaming, gambling, adult entertainment, medical or healthcare, or similar industries.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and judgment skills, including the ability to distinguish essential protections from lower-priority provisions and take clear positions under deal pressure.
• Highly responsive and organized, with the ability to manage many simultaneous deals and stakeholders in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

Nice to have

• Qualification to practice law in Canada.
• Experience with CLM tooling and Salesforce.
• Familiarity with identity, biometrics, or fraud-prevention technology.
• A mix of top law firm and in-house experience at a fast-paced technology company.

Culture & Benefits

• High-performance culture with freedom and responsibility.
• Context rather than control, with highly aligned and loosely coupled teams.
• Continuous feedback, promotions, and development opportunities.
• Flexible working hours and workplace.
• Open vacation policy.
• Inclusive and diverse work environment with reasonable accommodations available during the hiring process.