Global Head of Commercial Legal

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🗽 New York – Remote

🗽 New York – Remote

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💼 Attorney / Lawyer

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VAST Data

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501 - 1000 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $83M Series D on 2021-05

Artificial Intelligence

VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era, focused on delivering scalable performance and simple data management to enhance productivity for workload-intensive applications. Founded in 2019, it has become the fastest-selling data infrastructure startup in history, specializing in cloud storage, data storage, flash storage, and universal storage. VAST particularly targets innovations in deep learning, all flash, QLC flash, and NVMe technologies, making it a vital player in the data center architecture and storage solutions market.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary executive legal partner on VAST’s most strategic, complex multi-year software and infrastructure commitments • Design, implement, and continuously refine global commercial contract templates, including master software agreements, product-specific AI terms, and vendor procurement frameworks • Establish standardized fallback positions and tiered risk-escalation matrices to enable global GTM and Revenue Operations teams to close deals quickly while maintaining corporate governance • Address novel legal questions involving parallel computing, massive data ingestion, and real-time data processing • Ensure commercial terms align with international compliance landscapes, including the EU AI Act, GDPR, CCPA, and cross-border data transfer limitations • Recruit, mentor, and lead a geographically distributed team of commercial counsel and legal specialists across North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific • Build Legal Ops supporting legal AI and CLM infrastructure; implement automated triage, playbooks, and contract intelligence tools • Develop structured enablement and training programs for enterprise sales teams • Establish and monitor team KPIs covering contract volumes, cycle times, and negotiation friction points to optimize resource allocation

🎯 Requirements

• 12+ years of legal experience, combining top-tier law firm training with significant in-house leadership at a hyper-growth enterprise SaaS, deep tech, or AI infrastructure company • Experience leading a commercial team through rapid international scale or a pre-IPO transition is highly desirable • Exceptional background drafting and negotiating complex software licenses, technology partnerships, and cloud infrastructure agreements with highly sophisticated counterparties • A strong interest in and clear understanding of modern AI stacks, data storage architectures, GPU-accelerated environments, and enterprise data lifecycle management • Outstanding ability to make rapid, pragmatic business decisions in an ambiguous, evolving regulatory environment where clear legal precedents do not yet exist • JD from an accredited law school • Active bar membership in good standing