Senior Commercial Counsel
$170,700–$256,100 year
RemoteUnited States or San Jose, California, United States
Job Summary
Draft, review, and negotiate a high volume of commercial agreements, including supply, distribution, manufacturing, and vendor contracts for Lyten's battery, concrete, composites, and sensor product groups. Serve as primary commercial counsel advising on contract risk, liability, indemnification, warranty, IP, and termination provisions across customer-facing, enterprise, and OEM agreements. Build out contract templates, playbooks, clause libraries, and workflows to drive continuous improvement of the contracting process while providing practical, business-oriented legal guidance. Advise on export control, trade compliance, and data protection issues, escalating specialized questions to outside counsel as needed. Support M&A workstreams and lean into broader legal matters to support the broader legal team given its lean size.
Required Qualifications
- J.D.
- active license to practice law in the jurisdiction where the candidate resides
- Minimum 7 years of legal experience
- time spent on commercial transactions in the technology sector
- start-up or high-growth company experience
- Excellent drafting skills
- redlining skills
- negotiation skills
- issue-spotting skills
- ability to manage multiple contracts and stakeholders at once
- ability to keep deals moving
- ability to communicate clearly to non-lawyers
- Low ego
- high accountability
- comfort operating independently in a lean, fast-moving legal function
- Sound business judgment
- ability to distinguish legal issues from commercial issues
- ability to communicate risk clearly and practically without over-lawyering
- Comfort with contract lifecycle activities beyond negotiation
- Comfort using and implementing AI tools across the contracting lifecycle
- U.S. citizenship
- access to technology and technical data subject to U.S. export control laws
Desired Qualifications
- ideally spanning both in-house and law firms
- Prior experience supporting both U.S. and EU commercial transactions
- comfort navigating cross-border transactions
- strong awareness of key jurisdictional differences
- Experience with battery, materials science, hardware, or industrial manufacturing companies
- Experience with export control (EAR/ITAR) issues as they intersect with commercial contracting
- Experience with a CLM platform (e.g., Ironclad)
- building contract playbooks, templates, or clause libraries
- Experience with using AI-assisted tools for contract drafting, review, and research support
- Prior in-house legal experience at a rapidly scaling, growth-stage technology, energy, or industrial co.
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