Commercial Counsel

Suki AI Suki AI · Vertical AI · Suki HQ · Legal

Commercial Counsel for an AI voice solutions company in healthcare, focusing on drafting, negotiating, and advising on commercial agreements, business development, software licenses, partnership agreements, and vendor contracts. The role involves streamlining contracting processes, providing legal advice on commercial transactions, data privacy, and AI regulation, and managing the entire contracting cycle.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the point person for commercial deals. You’ll draft, negotiate, and advise cross-functional teams on a wide variety of commercial agreements, including new business development initiatives, software licenses, partnership agreements, and vendor contracts.
  2. Build, streamline, and operationalize Suki’s contracting process to help us scale, including creating new playbooks to help the Sales team automate their sales motions.
  3. Provide thoughtful and practical business and legal advice on various legal risks, business strategies, and other issues related to commercial transactions, data privacy, and the shifting landscape of AI regulation.
  4. Own the entire contracting cycle--from initial draft to execution--working with business teams to drive contract negotiations to quick and successful completion.

Skills

Required

  • JD, with strong academic credentials and membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
  • 5+ years of legal experience, with significant experience drafting, negotiating, and managing commercial deals for technology companies (either in-house or at a law firm).
  • Proven ability to provide entrepreneurial, pragmatic, business-oriented advice, with a dedication to superior customer service.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex legal concepts into actionable, collaborative business advice.
  • Highly organized, reliable, detail-oriented, and diligent.
  • Ability to work on multiple issues simultaneously and to set appropriate priorities with clients and to deliver results efficiently.
  • Ability to operate autonomously, while being a team player who brings a positive attitude to the job.

Nice to have

  • Experience working on healthcare, AI, and SaaS commercial agreements.
  • Experience and knowledge of privacy laws, including HIPAA and GDPR, and emerging regulatory policies on Generative AI and data security.
  • Start-up experience.
  • Demonstrated ability to operationalize and scale the commercial contracting process.

What the JD emphasized

  • commercial contracts
  • commercial agreements
  • commercial growth
  • commercial transactions
  • commercial deals
  • commercial contracting process
  • commercial agreements