Senior Commercial Counsel (AI)

Location: Hybrid, with in-office work required 3 days per week at the San Jose, California location only.

Salary: $196,350–$292,600 per year; final compensation may vary based on location, qualifications, experience, and education.

Company

hirify.global delivers intelligent data infrastructure, unified storage, integrated data services, and enterprise-grade storage services across Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure.

What you will do

• Provide strategic, business-oriented legal advice to the North America Sales organization and support revenue growth and customer and partner relationships.
• Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial technology agreements covering hardware, software, SaaS, storage-as-a-service, professional services, data privacy, and information security.
• Advise on direct and channel-based distribution involving distributors, resellers, and other partners.
• Assess contractual, regulatory, privacy, intellectual property, compliance, commercial, AI, and emerging technology risks.
• Partner with Finance, Information Security, Privacy, Sales Operations, Product, and other stakeholders to resolve complex issues and execute transactions.
• Improve legal templates, playbooks, training, self-service resources, contract lifecycle management, automation, analytics, and knowledge management.

Requirements

• Juris Doctor degree and active membership in good standing in at least one state bar.
• At least 10 years of legal experience, including at least 5 years in-house with a technology company.
• Substantial experience drafting and negotiating complex technology agreements with customers, distributors, resellers, and other business partners.
• In-depth understanding of transactions and business models involving software, hardware, SaaS, services, data privacy, information security, and evolving delivery models.
• Ability to identify and assess legal, contractual, privacy, intellectual property, compliance, commercial, and AI-related risks and translate complex issues into practical business advice.
• Demonstrated interest in using technology, AI-enabled tools, automation, and data-driven insights responsibly to improve legal service delivery and business outcomes.
• Excellent communication, drafting, negotiation, stakeholder-management, collaboration, judgment, professionalism, accountability, and interpersonal skills.
• Solution-oriented, growth-minded, adaptable, and able to manage competing priorities and execute with speed and attention to detail in a fast-paced environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working environment focused on connection, collaboration, and culture.
• Health insurance, life insurance, retirement or pension plans, paid time off, leave options, performance-based incentives, employee stock purchase plans, and/or RSUs, subject to regional variations.
• Culture values initiative, impact, ownership, innovation, inclusion, and work-life balance.
• AI tools may support selected hiring stages, with human decision-making retained.