Commercial Counsel
San Francisco
About the company
Braintrust is the agent observability platform. By actively applying intelligence to agent traces and automatically surfacing the most critical patterns, Braintrust gives teams the visibility to understand how agents behave in production and the tools to improve them.
Teams at Notion, Stripe, Box, OpenAI, and Cloudflare use Braintrust to trace their agents, find the issues in their observability data, and run evals that tell them how to improve.
About the Role
We’re looking for our first in-house legal hire to join Braintrust. This role will be critical as we scale our sales and customer base, helping us close deals, navigate data privacy, and build a scalable legal function from the ground up.
You’ll work closely with sales, product, engineering, and leadership to negotiate enterprise contracts, ensure compliance with data regulations, and design the processes that allow us to move quickly without unnecessary risk. This is a hands-on role where you’ll set strategy and also roll up your sleeves to get deals across the line.
What You’ll Do
Contracts and Commercial Support
Negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements including SaaS and on-prem agreements, MSAs, NDAs, vendor agreements, consulting agreements, DPAs, and partnership agreements
Lead legal support for complex, high-value enterprise sales transactions, and work closely with our sales team to close deals
Build strong working relationships with customer legal teams to accelerate adoption
Scaling the Legal Function
Develop contract playbooks, template agreements, and streamlined processes for the sales team
Implement tools and systems to increase visibility, improve workflows, and maintain deal velocity
Support governance, risk, and compliance programs
Cross-Functional Partnership
Collaborate with Sales, Finance, HR, Product, and Engineering to ensure legal alignment across the business
Provide strategic guidance on commercial legal matters, emerging regulations, and market trends
Support leadership with corporate governance and fundraising as needed
What We’re Looking For
JD from an accredited law school and admitted to the bar and in good standing in California, or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status)
6+ years of relevant legal experience, including at least 2 years in-house at a high-growth SaaS company
Extensive experience with enterprise software agreements and technology transactions
Ability to balance legal risk with business objectives and keep deals moving
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
Comfort operating as a team of one while building the function for scale
Nice to Have
Experience with AI, developer platforms, or cloud infrastructure
Familiarity with the legal considerations around AI-assisted development and enterprise adoption
Background working with customers in regulated industries such as healthcare or finance
Experience building legal processes through a hyper-growth phase
Benefits include
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
Flexible time off
Competitive salary and equity
Wifi & cellphone stipend
Equal opportunity
Braintrust is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.