Commercial Counsel

Why This Role

We are looking for a sharp, motivated, commercially minded Commercial Counsel to join BFL’s legal team. You will support a broad range of commercial transactions across our EU and US go-to-market deals. This is a high-ownership role in which you will draft, review, and negotiate agreements, and help structure and maintain operations across the legal and go-to-market teams.

This is an exciting opportunity for a lawyer who wants to work at the cutting edge of AI: advising on novel agreement structures for foundational generative AI models, negotiating complex licensing and API deals, and helping build the legal and commercial infrastructure of a high-growth company.

What You’ll Work On

• Partner closely with the GTM, Marketing, FDE, Infrastructure, and Finance teams to negotiate contracts and provide practical, deal-enabling legal advice

• Support EU (and, as needed, US and UK) commercial transactions, focusing primarily on EU-centric deals across a variety of industry verticals, and advise on German corporate law

• Contribute to company-wide compliance and legal operations initiatives as the legal team scales

• Help develop and maintain scalable legal frameworks, contract templates, playbooks, and approval workflows

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of legal experience, including commercial transactions in the technology sector, ideally spanning both in-house roles and private practice. Start-up or high-growth company experience would be an advantage.

• Demonstrated experience negotiating and closing complex technology agreements, including software licensing, API and platform deals, data and content agreements, and partnership contracts.

• Prior experience supporting EU commercial deals, with comfort navigating cross-border transactions and a strong awareness of key jurisdictional differences.

• Excellent drafting and negotiation skills, with the ability to identify material issues quickly and communicate them clearly to non-lawyers.

• Low ego and high accountability: as comfortable rolling up your sleeves on routine agreements as you are handling high-stakes or novel deal structures.

While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have

• Experience negotiating robotics, technical manufacturing, and hardware contracts

• Experience with products subject to export regulation in the EU

• Experience with AI/ML, developer platforms, or foundational model licensing

• Exposure to generative AI in prior roles; familiarity with how AI products are built, licensed, and deployed will meaningfully accelerate your effectiveness in this role

• A JD from an accredited law school and qualification in Germany or the UK

• Familiarity with German corporate law, the EU AI Act, GDPR, or other international regulatory frameworks relevant to AI and data

• A background advising on IP, copyright, or data licensing matters in the context of AI training or model development

Compensation

EU: €150,000 - €200,000 + equity

Note: We may use AI-assisted tools to help organize applications. All hiring decisions are always made by our team.