Commercial Counsel

Instacart  ยท  via Remote Communications Jobs
๐Ÿ’ฐ $193,000 - $203,500/yr ๐ŸŒŽ Remote

Job Description:

  • Draft, negotiate, and implement major enterprise and partner agreements across all areas of the business
  • Lead negotiations with retailers and strategic partners, align internal stakeholders, and drive deals to close
  • Provide strategic legal advice to internal business clients, including approval, conditional approval, decline, or escalation recommendations
  • Lead special legal and cross-functional projects from start to finish
  • Implement best practices for integrating AI into legal work
  • Monitor advertising, competition, IP, consumer protection, gig economy, international, and privacy laws and regulations, translating them into practical compliance advice
  • Draft terms, policies, and disclosures and build supporting processes
  • Advise internal clients on executed agreements
  • Create and update form legal agreements and playbooks
  • Train clients and colleagues on legal issues
  • Anticipate future legal issues and help the business prepare

Requirements:

  • A J.D. from a top-tier law school and membership with at least one state bar (preferably California)
  • A minimum of 6 years of related experience working at a leading law firm or in-house legal department
  • Strong experience with legal issues affecting Internet and e-commerce spaces, particularly privacy, SaaS, and payments
  • Strong history of managing strategic partner negotiations and contract drafting from start to finish
  • Strong negotiation presence and ability to lead teams toward a goal
  • Sound and practical business judgment and ability to manage multiple high-priority, competing priorities
  • Ability to provide clear, concise legal advice and work effectively cross-functionally to drive results
  • Team-player orientation
  • In-house experience, especially at a technology company or retailer (preferred)
  • Experience in alcohol law, international law, and/or privacy and data security laws, including GDPR and CCPA/CPRA (preferred)
  • Experience with AI governance and privacy-by-design in ML/AI product development (preferred)
  • Experience in AdTech (preferred)

Benefits:

  • Flexible choice of work location: home, office, or coffee shop
  • Regular in-person events
  • New hire equity grant
  • Annual refresh grants
  • Market-competitive compensation and benefits based on work location