Baseten
Technology
AssistantGeneralCounsel,Commercial
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“Assistant General Counsel, Commercial at Baseten. Skills: Commercial agreements, Product counsel, AI infrastructure. Own enterprise commercial agreements lifecycle. Serve as product counsel”
Industry & Context.
Risk assessment
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
JD and active bar membership, 8+ years commercial/technology transactions experience, In-house time at B2B SaaS/cloud/developer-infrastructure company, Advised technical product org, Negotiate enterprise agreements, Manage high deal volume, Working knowledge data privacy, Working knowledge security provisions
Nice to Have
Experience at AI/ML/developer-infrastructure company, Experience with usage-based pricing, Familiarity with marketplace agreements, Familiarity with model distribution agreements, Familiarity with platform/ecosystem agreements, Experience structuring strategic partnerships, Experience structuring OEM arrangements, Experience structuring co-sell arrangements, People-management experience, Team-building experience, Comfort with AI-assisted legal tooling
What You'll Do.
Own enterprise commercial agreements lifecycle
Serve as product counsel
Advise on inference/multi-tenancy/model deployment
Translate technical architecture into risk positions
Own commercial/legal terms for model marketplace
Own commercial/legal terms for model distribution
Lead legal workstream for go-to-market partnerships
Structure collaboration arrangements
Structure reseller arrangements
Structure co-sell arrangements
Build commercial templates
Own commercial playbooks
Improve standard positions
Partner with Finance on revenue recognition
Partner with Finance on non-standard deal structures
Partner with Security/Compliance on data protection
Partner with Security/Compliance on regulated-data
Partner with Security/Compliance on security commitments
Advise CLO on commercial risk
Advise CLO on contractual risk
Advocate for changes to positions
Advocate for changes to playbooks
Advocate for changes to risk posture
Assist on strategic transactions
Assist on one-off transactions
Help build commercial legal team
Mentor commercial legal team
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Partner with Sales; Partner with Finance; Partner with Engineering; Partner with Security; Partner with Compliance; Partner with CLO
Communication Scope
Translate legal concepts; Translate technical concepts
Full Job Description
ABOUT BASETEN Baseten powers mission-critical inference for the world's most dynamic AI companies, like Cursor, Notion, OpenEvidence, Abridge, Clay, Gamma and Writer. By uniting applied AI research, flexible infrastructure, and seamless developer tooling, we enable companies operating at the frontier of AI to bring cutting-edge models into production. We're growing quickly and recently raised our $300M Series E https://www.baseten.co/blog/announcing-baseten-s-300m-series-e/, backed by investors including BOND, IVP, Spark Capital, Greylock, and Conviction. Join us and help build the platform engineers turn to to ship AI products. THE ROLE Baseten is the AI inference infrastructure that serves the traffic and endpoints behind the most innovative AI-native and enterprise products in the market. We're hiring an Assistant General Counsel, Commercial to own our commercial deal surface as we scale from a high-growth startup into an enterprise-grade AI infrastructure platform. You'll be our primary commercial contracts attorney - embedded directly in the business and partnering day-to-day with Sales, Finance, and Engineering. At Baseten, commercial and product are the same thing. What we build and sell is inference — compute, orchestration, deployment, and optimization delivered as the production backbone for our customers' products. Closing a deal here means understanding multi-tenancy, model deployment, latency and throughput SLAs, and how a customer's workload actually runs on our platform. This is a role for a commercially minded product lawyer who wants to sit at that intersection, not run a siloed contracts function. You'll own enterprise commercial contracting end to end, and you'll also own several related strategic surfaces, including model marketplace initiatives and go-to-market partnerships. Your center of gravity is the commercial deal surface; like everyone on this team, you'll also flex onto cross-functional and one-off work where you're needed. RESPONSIBILIT
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