1. GC AI
  2. /
  3. Senior Commercial Counsel
Sign in

Role description

Senior Commercial Counsel

GC AI logoGC AI
TypeFull-time
WorkplaceOn-site
SenioritySenior
Salary$170,000–$225,000
LocationSan Mateo, CA
Posted9/10/2026
Legal

GC AI is the legal intelligence platform built for in-house legal teams and companies. Your decisions shape the product, your impact is immediate, and you own your work from day one.

More than 2,100 companies run their legal work on GC AI, including 300+ public companies, 75+ unicorns, and teams at Nestlé, Hitachi Digital, Lockheed Martin, Miro, Bass Pro Shops, Riot Games, SKIMS, Liquid Death, Vercel, TIME, and Post Holdings. The platform holds an 80 NPS, more than double the B2B SaaS industry average, reinforcing GC AI as the leading legal AI platform for companies of all sizes.

GC AI has doubled ARR in six months. We won #1 Highest Customer Satisfaction at the 2026 SaaS Awards. Our investors include Scale Venture Partners, Northzone, Sound Ventures, and Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel.

You’ll define how things get built, not follow someone else’s playbook. Six principles guide how the team works:

  • 📈 1% Better Every Day: small, compounding improvements across everything you ship.

  • ❤️‍🔥 Customer Obsession: start with the customer and work backward.

  • 🚀 Ship Today: bias toward action and iteration over perfection.

  • 🧗 Find a Way: resourcefulness and ambition over constraint.

  • 🤝 Care: be direct, like an honest friend, even when it’s uncomfortable.

  • 🎯 Own It: full accountability, proactive communication, and attention to detail.

About The Role

As Senior Commercial Counsel, you'll be a core member of GC AI's commercial legal team, owning a high volume of customer-side negotiations while helping build the processes and templates that let the business move faster. This role is for someone who can run independently on complex deals, knows when to escalate, and genuinely enjoys the rhythm of supporting a sales team that's closing business at speed. You'll work across MSAs, order forms, DPAs, NDAs, and customer paper, and you'll have real influence over how GC AI's commercial legal function scales.

The Impact You Will Have

  • Directly enable GC AI's revenue growth by keeping deals moving with speed and sound judgment.

  • Strengthen commercial legal processes by contributing to playbooks, templates, and self-serve resources that scale with the business.

  • Build trust with sales and customer success teams as a reliable, business-minded legal partner.

  • Help shape how GC AI uses its own product in day-to-day commercial legal work.

What You'll Do

  • Manage a high volume of customer-side negotiations, including reviewing and redlining customer paper and bespoke terms.

  • Draft, review, and negotiate commercial agreements (MSAs, order forms, DPAs, NDAs).

  • Support sales teams through deal cycles, understanding their timelines and quarter-end pressures.

  • Work independently on the full range of commercial matters while knowing when to escalate complex issues.

  • Explain legal concepts clearly to non-legal stakeholders across sales, product, and customer success.

  • Balance legal risk management with business objectives to maintain deal velocity.

  • Contribute to developing scalable legal processes, templates, and playbooks for go-to-market teams.

  • Support vendor-side contracting as needed.

  • Take on additional projects and tasks as needed in response to the evolving needs of a fast-growing startup.

Required Experience

  • JD and active bar membership in at least one US jurisdiction.

  • 5-9 years of technology transactions experience in a B2B SaaS environment.

  • In-house legal experience.

  • Strong drafting and negotiation skills, particularly with commercial agreements (MSAs, order forms, DPAs, NDAs).

  • Ability to manage a high volume of customer-side negotiations, including reviewing and redlining customer paper and bespoke terms.

  • Experience supporting sales teams and understanding their timelines and pressures.

  • Ability to work independently while knowing when to escalate complex matters.

  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain legal concepts clearly to non-legal stakeholders.

  • Proven ability to balance legal risk management with business objectives.

  • Comfort working under pressure, particularly during month-end closing periods.

Nice To Have

  • Experience at a high-growth startup or scale-up company.

  • Experience at a big law firm in a technology group.

  • Familiarity with AI, machine learning, or legal technology sectors.

  • Privacy certification (CIPP/US, CIPP/E) or substantive privacy experience.

  • Experience advising on AI-related legal issues.

  • Experience developing scalable legal processes, templates, or playbooks for go-to-market teams.

  • Vendor-side contracting experience.

  • You are already a GC AI user.

A Note On Pace

We’re building something new in a once-in-a-generation shift in technology and the legal industry, so we move at a relentless pace. We expect urgency, ownership, and good judgment even when things aren’t perfectly clear. If you need structure and consensus to do your best work, this isn’t the right place for you. If you thrive in ambiguity and growth, work with intensity, and want real responsibility, keep reading. We’re excited to meet you.

How We Work Together

GC AI is a distributed company with team members across North America, and soon Europe. We believe that because our business is AI, human connection matters more, not less. We invest in bringing people together through our hub model: regular coworking sessions, customer dinners, team and company offsites. If you’re in a location without an office, expect up to 10% travel (and more for customer-facing roles).

Team members in the San Francisco Bay Area and Provo, UT (within 50 miles of the office) work together on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. As we grow, we plan to establish permanent offices in more hub cities, and we will look to our team members to help build that in-person culture. We currently hire across the United States and Canada.

Perks & Benefits

We proudly offer the following benefits for our full-time employees:

🏥 Medical, Dental & Vision — Comprehensive coverage for you and your family
❤️ Life & Disability Insurance — Added protection when you need it most
💰 Retirement Plan — Plan and save for your future
👶 Parental Leave — Time to focus on what matters most
📚 Continuous Development — Up to $3,000/year for job-related learning & development
🍽️ In-Office Meals — DoorDash credits for breakfast, lunch & dinner
🌴 Paid Time Off — 15 PTO days + 5 sick days, with opportunities to accrue more
🎉 Company Holidays — 15 company holidays + 3 additional “Me Days”
💻 Home Office Setup — $500 for new hires to build out their workspace
📱 Cell Phone Reimbursement — $50/month toward your phone bill
🚚 Relocation Support — Assistance to help make your move easier

Equal Opportunity Employment

GC AI is an equal opportunity employer that supports workplace diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity/expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, physical or mental disability, or any other protected class. GC AI is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. #LI-GCAI

Fraud Notice to GC AI Applicants

To protect yourself against phishing and recruitment fraud, please note that GC AI only accepts job applications through our official careers page at https://gc.ai/careers and through sponsored jobs on LinkedIn. All legitimate communication from our team regarding job opportunities will come from a GC AI team member with a @gc.ai or @getgc.ai email address.

GC AI will never:

  • Refer you to external websites to apply

  • Conduct interviews over email, chat platforms, or messaging apps

  • Ask you to provide payment or purchase equipment

  • Request personal or financial information such as your mailing address, social security number, credit card numbers, or banking information during the application process

Examples of fraudulent email addresses:

  • info.gcai.careers.com@gmail.com

  • info.gc.aicareers.online.com@gmail.com

  • Any email address ending in @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, or other free email services

If you are contacted by someone claiming to be from GC AI via an unofficial channel or from a suspicious email address, please do not share any information. Mark the communication as "phishing" or "spam" and do not respond.

Relevant archetypes

Apply on Ashby
Save

Company info

GC AI logo

GC AI

AI that gets in-house legal.

GC AI is the legal AI platform built for in-house teams. Draft, review, research, and redline faster with clickable, verifiable sources. Search U.S. Case Law, automate recurring legal work with Automations, and ask plain-English questions across your contract portfolio with Contract Intelligence. Work where you already do with 20+ Agent Connectors, GC AI for Word, playbooks, shared skills, and an API. Customer data is isolated, encrypted, and never used to train AI provider models. GC AI supports zero-data-retention arrangements wherever feasible and customer-directed deletion. It is SOC 2 Type II and SOC 3 certified and GDPR compliant. Trusted by 2,100+ legal teams worldwide, including Skims, Vercel, Liquid Death, TIME, Gusto, Columbia Sportswear, and Arc’teryx. Try GC AI free or book a demo at gc.ai

Private companySeries BIn the news
Founded2023
HQSan Mateo, United States
Size
51–200 employees
IndustrySoftware Development
Latest fundingSeries B · Nov 12, 2025
Investors
Scale Venture PartnersNorthzone
News
  • GC AI and Docusign Partner to Turn Agreements into Legal Intelligence
  • GC AI and Docusign Partner to Turn Agreements into Legal Intelligence
  • Conga Partners with GC AI to Bring Purpose-Built Legal AI Directly into Contract Lifecycle Management
  • Conga Partners with GC AI to Bring Purpose-Built Legal AI Directly into Contract Lifecycle Management

Claim gc.ai

Work at gc.ai? Sign in to claim this org and manage its profile.

ThesisExploreTermsPrivacy
© 2026 Saywise Inc.