Managing Counsel, Commercial
- Countries
- Hybrid, Remote, USA, Canada
- Job Types
- sales & business development, operations
- Experience
- late
- Organization Types
- transportation & mobility, robotics, startups
- Location
- San Francisco - Pittsburgh - Toronto - Hybrid - Remote
- Posted Date
- Company
- Waabi
- Salary
- USD186,000.0 - USD203,000.0 yearly
AI Summary
Job Description
As Managing Counsel, Commercial, you will lead Waabi's commercial contracting function, advising on deals that drive business growth. This includes managing the full contract portfolio, from NDAs to strategic partnerships, and developing efficient contracting processes. You will also advise engineering, supply chain, and business development teams, and support IP, regulatory, and data privacy matters.
Hard Requirements
- 8+ years of legal experience, with significant time in-house, handling complex commercial transactions in the automotive, hardware, or technology space
- Demonstrated depth in hardware supply chain agreements
- Experience structuring and negotiating strategic partnerships or corp-dev-style agreements
- Effective communicator, with the ability to give legal advice in plain language
- Comfort working directly alongside technical and business teams throughout a deal
- Well-calibrated risk judgment
- Experience building or maintaining a forms library, templates, or contracting playbooks
- Ability to handle any contract type independently, at any level of complexity or stakes
- J.D. and active bar membership in a relevant jurisdiction (US or Canada)
Soft Requirements
- In-house experience at an automotive OEM, Tier 1 supplier, or autonomous vehicle company
- Familiarity with automotive supply standards (e.g., IATF, AIAG, APQP/PPAP)
- Experience with applying AI tools to improve legal workflows and contracting efficiency
- Familiarity with open-source licensing, export control, or data privacy issues in the AV or hardware space