Commercial and International Counsel (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Toronto GTA, with New York listed as another location; Canada

Salary: $150K–$180K plus equity

Company

hirify.global is building data infrastructure for robotics and embodied AI, including global systems for data capture, labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by AI labs and robotics companies.

What you will do

• Draft and negotiate data licensing, capture partnership, BPO, vendor, compute, cloud, and software agreements.
• Protect ownership of collected and funded data and manage contractual risk allocation, pricing, and caps.
• Build standard agreements, negotiation playbooks, fallback positions, and approval matrices for commercial teams.
• Lead legal workstreams for new-country entry, including entity formation, contractor and employment arrangements, permanent establishment and tax exposure, licences, and filings.
• Advise on import and export of capture hardware, customs classification, radio and product certification, warranties, repairs, and logistics.
• Select and manage local law firms, including scope, deadlines, budgets, and translating legal assessments into operating decisions.

Requirements

• Law degree and admission to practice in at least one jurisdiction.
• 5 to 8+ years of commercial and transactional practice, including in-house experience at a high-growth company operating in several countries.
• Proven experience drafting and negotiating customer, data licensing, technology, vendor, and partnership agreements with limited supervision.
• Experience advising and training commercial teams on deal structure and risk allocation.

Nice to have

• Experience with complex commercial contracts, dataset licensing, ownership of collected data, and contracts with AI and machine learning companies.
• Direct experience setting up operations in new countries, including entity formation, contractor classification, and hardware imports.
• SOC 2 compliance or audit-readiness initiative experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time hybrid employment with equity eligibility.
• Inclusive work environment committed to equal opportunities and recruitment accommodations.
• Capability and trajectory are valued even when candidates do not meet every preferred qualification.

Hiring process

• Applications may be evaluated with AI-assisted tools that support, but do not replace, human recruiting judgment.
• Applicants requiring accommodations during recruitment can request support.