Senior Commercial Counsel

🔥 12 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $170.7k - $256.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Lyten

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2015

⚡ Energy

🔧 Hardware

🤝 B2B

💰 Venture Round - Lyten on 2024-07

Energy • Hardware • B2B

Lyten is a supermaterials applications company that pioneers Three-Dimensional Graphene and uses it to develop advanced materials and products for heavy industries. The company develops lithium-sulfur battery systems, 3D printer filament, concrete admixtures, and high-strength structural adhesives, aiming to make products lighter, stronger, lower-cost, and cleaner. Lyten targets industrial customers across transportation sectors (motorsports, space, aviation, shipping) and energy markets, and is expanding manufacturing capability through acquisitions and industrial hubs to scale sustainable, low‑carbon solutions.

📋 Description

• Serve as primary commercial counsel advising on contract risk, liability, indemnification, warranty, IP, and termination provisions across customer-facing, enterprise, and OEM agreements. • Draft, review and negotiate a high volume of commercial agreements, including supply, distribution/reseller, manufacturing/services, purchase orders and vendor contracts. • Provide practical, business-oriented legal guidance that enables deal velocity while maintaining appropriate risk controls. • Build out contract templates, playbooks, clause libraries, and workflows, in coordination with paralegal and operations team; drive continuous improvement of the contracting process. • Advise on export control, trade compliance, and data protection issues arising in commercial agreements, escalating specialized questions to outside counsel as needed. • Support M&A workstreams as needed. • Lean into legal matters outside core commercial scope as needed to support the broader legal team given its lean size.

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. and active license to practice law in the jurisdiction where the candidate resides. • Minimum 7 years of legal experience, with time spent on commercial transactions in the technology sector, ideally spanning both in-house and law firms; start-up or high-growth company experience is a plus. • Excellent drafting, redlining, negotiation, and issue-spotting skills, with the ability to manage multiple contracts and stakeholders at once while keeping deals moving and communicating clearly to non-lawyers. • Low ego, high accountability, and comfort operating independently in a lean, fast-moving legal function with evolving process and reporting lines. • Sound business judgment and the ability to distinguish legal issues from commercial issues, communicating risk clearly and practically without over-lawyering. • Comfort with contract lifecycle activities beyond negotiation, including intake, routing, approvals, signature tracking, repository hygiene, and contract status management. • Comfort using and implementing AI tools across the contracting lifecycle.

🏖️ Benefits

• tier based bonus • equity • healthcare • dental • vision • corporate discounts • paid holidays • PTO • sick time • 401K • employee relocation plan (if applicable)