Commercial Counsel

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $185k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧑‍⚖️ Legal Counsel / General Counsel

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Terabase Energy

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2019

⚡ Energy

☁️ SaaS

Energy • Renewable Energy • SaaS

Terabase Energy is a company focused on revolutionizing the solar energy industry by developing an interconnected digital and automation platform designed to reduce costs and enhance scalability for utility-scale solar power plants. The company offers innovative solutions such as robotics-assisted construction automation and cloud-based digitization, which aim to optimize the entire lifecycle of solar power projects. With a commitment to maximizing efficiency and providing end-to-end support, Terabase is empowering clients to achieve more with their solar initiatives.

📋 Description

• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, order forms, SaaS agreements, software and technology agreements, vendor agreements, procurement agreements, partner agreements, services agreements, and construction-related agreements. • Support Sales, Supply Chain/Procurement, Operations, Product, Project Management, and other business teams with practical, business-oriented contracting guidance. • Provide construction-aware legal support for EPC-adjacent, subcontractor, field services, robotics deployment, equipment, and project-based commercial arrangements. • Identify, explain, and escalate legal and commercial risks in a clear, practical way that enables business stakeholders to make informed decisions. • Help distinguish legal risk from business risk and support appropriate internal decision-making and approvals. • Coordinate with external counsel for overflow support, specialized subject matter areas, or high-volume periods. • Project manage contracts and deals to closure by driving timelines, coordinating approvals, tracking open issues, and helping unblock negotiations. • Support contract intake, triage, routing, signature coordination, and post-signature handoff activities. • Help maintain organized contract records, contract status tracking, and key contract metadata. • Support contract repository hygiene, reporting, and data integrity to improve visibility into contract obligations, renewal dates, approval status, and deal risk. • Prepare or contribute to internal deal approval materials, including risk summaries, issue lists, and commercial/legal overviews for key stakeholders. • Help administer, improve, and scale Terabase’s Ironclad workflows, including intake forms, approval flows, routing logic, templates, metadata fields, and contract repository practices. • Partner with Legal, Sales Ops, Supply Chain/Procurement, Finance, and other stakeholders to improve contracting workflows and reduce unnecessary friction. • Develop and maintain contracting playbooks, fallback positions, escalation procedures, clause libraries, template repositories, and training materials. • Identify process bottlenecks and recommend practical improvements to intake, approvals, contract routing, signature processes, and contract lifecycle automation. • Support implementation and continuous improvement of contracting policies, including when legal review is required, who approves deviations, and how exceptions are documented. • Help create lightweight dashboards, reports, or tracking tools to monitor contract volume, cycle times, approval status, and recurring negotiation issues.

🎯 Requirements

• JD and active license to practice law in the jurisdiction where the candidate resides. • 4–6+ years of commercial contracting experience, preferably in-house or in a business-facing commercial legal role. • Strong drafting, redlining, negotiation, and issue-spotting skills across a variety of commercial contracts. • Experience negotiating technology, construction, SaaS, software, services, vendor, customer, or procurement agreements. • Ability to manage multiple contracts and stakeholders at the same time while keeping deals moving. • Strong business judgment and ability to distinguish legal issues from commercial issues. • Clear, practical communication style with the ability to explain risk without over-lawyering. • Comfort with contract lifecycle activities beyond negotiation, including intake, routing, approvals, signature tracking, repository hygiene, and contract status management. • Interest in legal operations, process improvement, and scalable contracting systems. • Ability to work independently in a lean legal function and partner closely with non-lawyer business teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous time off and holiday policy • Remote flexibility • Flexible time off • Comprehensive benefits package • Career progression • 401k match • Stock options • Home office set up allowance • And much more!