Commercial Counsel

🔥 12 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $160k - $300k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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SandboxAQ

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔒 Cybersecurity

💊 Pharmaceuticals

Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity • Pharmaceuticals

SandboxAQ is a company developing quantitative AI and quantum-inspired technologies to solve real-world problems across drug discovery, materials science, cybersecurity, and navigation. They build large quantitative models (LQMs) grounded in physics and chemistry to predict molecular properties, accelerate therapeutic design, and simulate complex chemical and catalytic processes, while also applying their expertise in AI and post-quantum cryptography to enhance digital security and navigation in GPS-denied environments.

📋 Description

• Own customer deals end to end, focusing on life sciences and computational chemistry deals • Structure, draft, and negotiate customer engagements, including material science and drug-discovery deals • Handle research collaborations, sponsored research agreements, industry partnerships, commercial pilots, and data in-licenses • Work closely with sales and business teams • Negotiate customer agreements and statements of work across business units • Handle channel and technology partnerships, NDAs, vendor agreements, SaaS agreements, and professional services agreements • Partner directly with PhD chemists, biologists, ML researchers, general managers, finance, and R&D leadership • Identify key issues proactively and lead cross-functional problem solving • Create and maintain playbooks, templates, fallback positions, and escalation paths • Establish self-serve routes for routine agreements • Use AI tooling to accelerate legal review, triage, and drafting • Help build a forward-thinking, business-savvy legal team as an early legal hire

🎯 Requirements

• Juris Doctor (J.D.) or equivalent law degree • Admission to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction • 6+ years of substantive commercial transactional experience • Demonstrated record of independently owning and closing complex technology or science-driven deals • Deep fluency in business and commercial engagement and transaction structures • Knowledge of IP ownership and license scope, confidentiality, data rights and privacy, limitation of liability, indemnification, warranties, and termination • Ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments • Strong desire to build commercial infrastructure from the ground up • Ability to build relationships across diverse teams • Ability to translate complex legal concepts into actionable business strategies • Life sciences and/or material science transactional experience is highly desired • In-house and Big Law experience is highly desired • Experience with AI/ML products is highly desired • Exposure to data licensing, data-sharing, and privacy requirements across multiple jurisdictions is highly desired • Demonstrated use of, or specific interest in, AI tooling to accelerate legal work is highly desired • Candidates cannot participate in foreign talent programs sponsored by China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea • Must be legally authorized to work in the country where the job is located • Undergraduate or graduate STEM degree is valued but not required

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance-based incentives or bonuses, where applicable • Equity participation • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents • Generous employer premium contributions • Retirement savings with company matching • Paid parental leave • Inclusive family-building benefits • Fully remote work • Flexible paid time off • Company-wide seasonal breaks • Support for flexible work arrangements • On-the-job development • Cross-functional collaboration • Access to internal learning and development programs • Career-defining work advancing drug and material discovery, human health, and sustainable technologies