Commercial and Product Counsel
- Location
- San Francisco
- Workplace
- On-site
- Compensation
- $150k – $210k + equity
About this role
About the Role
You'll serve as Commercial and Product Counsel at Arceus, working directly with customers as an extension of their in-house legal team while helping us scale contract review and legal operations. This high-responsibility role sits at the intersection of law and technology, where you'll turn judgment and playbooks into innovative products that reshape how legal services are delivered. You'll own meaningful equity and help define the future of legal technology over the next decade.
What You'll Do
- Review and negotiate commercial contracts, advising on product and privacy matters for growing tech companies.
- Partner closely with legal and product teams to move contracts through efficiently and accurately.
- Interpret contract terms and surface key obligations, risks, and anomalies to clients.
- Operate internal tooling to streamline review and collaborate with product and engineering to improve platform speed and accuracy.
- Spot inefficiencies and patterns in the review process, then design and implement fixes.
- Standardize and codify recurring contract types, review playbooks, and quality standards.
- Protect turnaround and SLA commitments while maintaining our quality bar.
- Partner with operations to evolve how we deliver legal services as we scale.
What We're Looking For
- J.D. and active California bar membership in good standing.
- 5–8 years of law practice with significant experience supporting technology companies; in-house counsel or sole legal counsel experience required.
- Expertise in corporate, commercial, product, and privacy law; venture capital and emerging company exposure a plus.
- Impeccable attention to detail and ability to spot risks others miss.
- Thrives in high-intensity, fast-paced environments and operates with consistent urgency.
- Experience with or genuine enthusiasm for AI-assisted legal workflows.
- Strong grounding in professional responsibility and legal ethics.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Comfortable in ambiguous, high-ownership environments.
Location
In-person, San Francisco.
What happens next
Skip the application pile. I get you in front of the people who decide.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
When the company wants to meet, I get the call on your calendar. You just show up.
Culture & values
You'll sit next to attorneys and AI engineers, turning real legal judgment into software that ships fast and holds a high bar.
Set the engineering culture and standards for everyone who comes after you.
Make pragmatic architecture and tooling decisions that let us move fast now without painting us into a corner later.
Own quality: write maintainable code, build for reliability, and take responsibility for what you ship in production.
Help define engineering culture, standards, and hiring as the team grows.
Move work over the finish line when it matters — customer experience always comes first.
We are building an exceptional company and engineering team.
Intense, fast-paced environment: We work 6 days a week with long hours and expect a high level of commitment.
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