Director, Legal – AI/GPU Commercial

🔥 19 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $185.7k - $272.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Rackspace Technology

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5001 - 10000 employees

Founded 1998

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Consulting • Logistics • Artificial Intelligence

Rackspace Technology is a global managed cloud services provider that designs, builds, migrates and operates multicloud, hybrid and private cloud environments for enterprises. It offers consulting, professional and managed services across cloud infrastructure, application modernization, data platforms, AI/ML (Foundry of AI/FAIR), and cybersecurity, along with managed hosting, colocation and platform integrations with major hyperscalers. Rackspace serves regulated and mission-critical industries with a focus on security, compliance, cost optimization and operational reliability.

📋 Description

• Serve as lead commercial counsel for Rackspace's GPU-as-a-service, bare-metal, and AI infrastructure offerings • Draft and negotiate solution and product terms, master service agreements, and order forms • Partner with Sales and Sourcing on complex GPU/AI capacity transactions • Handle customer-facing sales agreements and supply-side arrangements, including capacity reservations, data center colocation, partner agreements, semiconductor manufacturer backstop agreements, and power/infrastructure agreements • Negotiate novel commercial structures with chip and hardware suppliers, hyperscalers, and neocloud/GPU providers • Monitor and advise on legal and regulatory issues affecting AI infrastructure and advanced computing items • Advise on export controls, end-user/end-use screening, deemed exports, RASA, licensing, data sovereignty, and AI-specific commercial risks • Partner with the Chief Privacy Officer on AI training, inference, and customer data privacy issues • Support M&A, strategic partnerships, and investment activity involving AI/GPU infrastructure targets or counterparties • Act as RackLaw's internal subject-matter expert on the GPU/neocloud competitive and regulatory landscape • Advise Sales Legal, Sourcing, Solutions Counsel, and other practice leads • Develop and maintain playbooks, templates, and self-service tools for GPU/AI commercial terms • Provide business-oriented legal guidance balancing deal velocity with legal and regulatory risk • Report to the VP & Deputy General Counsel and partner with existing legal practice leads

🎯 Requirements

• J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school • Active license to practice law in at least one U.S. jurisdiction, in good standing • 8+ years of post-bar experience in commercial/transactional practice • Substantial experience with technology, cloud, or data infrastructure transactions • Deep knowledge of commercial contracting for cloud and IaaS/SaaS transactions • Working knowledge of U.S. export control regimes applicable to advanced computing and semiconductor technology, including EAR / BIS / RASA • Familiarity with data privacy and protection frameworks applicable to AI training and inference workloads • Ability to operate as a cross-functional subject-matter expert without direct management authority • Sound business judgment • Ability to translate fast-moving, ambiguous business requirements into workable legal terms • Executive-level written and verbal communication • Independent judgment and ability to operate with minimal supervision • Prior in-house experience at a hyperscaler, neocloud/GPU cloud provider, semiconductor company, or AI infrastructure company preferred • Experience with export control, data privacy, or M&A matters preferred • Experience negotiating equipment financing, lease, or offtake structures preferred • General knowledge of M&A and strategic transaction structuring preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Annual bonus or incentives • Equity awards • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) • Benefits package • Equal employment opportunity • Disability or special-needs accommodation