Commercial Counsel (AI)

Location: San Francisco, California; on-site

Salary: $150,000–$215,000 annually, plus equity

Company

LangChain builds open-source frameworks and commercial infrastructure for developing, evaluating, deploying, and operating AI agents and LLM-powered applications.

What you will do

• Draft, review, redline, and negotiate customer, partner, vendor, SaaS, cloud, technology, NDA, MSA, DPA, security addendum, order form, and amendment agreements.
• Advise Sales, Partnerships, Finance, Security, Product, Revenue Operations, and Operations on practical legal approaches to commercial transactions.
• Support enterprise sales, technology partnerships, channel and reseller relationships, referrals, integrations, marketplaces, co-selling, and strategic collaborations.
• Develop scalable vendor review processes covering intake, risk assessment, approvals, fallback positions, and cross-functional review.
• Implement and operationalize Ironclad workflows, approval routing, templates, clause libraries, playbooks, reporting, and process improvements.
• Advise on privacy, data protection, security, intellectual property, AI/LLM usage, confidentiality, indemnification, liability, compliance, and vendor risk.

Requirements

• 5–8 years of experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating commercial technology agreements.
• Experience with SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, AI, developer tools, enterprise software, or other high-growth technology businesses.
• Experience with customer, vendor, partner, channel, reseller, marketplace, referral, integration, co-selling, NDA, MSA, DPA, and security agreements.
• Ability to independently manage negotiations, identify risk, and escalate novel or complex issues appropriately.
• Experience improving legal processes, contracting workflows, approval paths, templates, playbooks, or vendor review infrastructure.
• Admitted to practice law in the applicable jurisdiction; California admission preferred or eligibility to register as in-house counsel in California.

Nice to have

• In-house experience at a SaaS, infrastructure, AI, cloud, developer tools, or enterprise software company.
• Experience with Ironclad or another contract lifecycle management platform.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with cross-functional legal and business collaboration.
• Flexible vacation and medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) plan and meals on in-office days in the United States.
• Meaningful equity and compensation that varies by role, level, and location.