# Senior Commercial Counsel

**Company:** [xAI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/xai)
**Location:** Austin, TX, Los Angeles, CA, New York, NY, Palo Alto, CA
**Role:** Legal
**Salary:** $240k – $285k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Commercial Contracts, Technology Agreements, Enterprise Agreements, Intellectual Property, Technology Transactions, Contract Negotiation, Legal Risk Mitigation, Compliance
**Posted:** 2026-05-05

> Negotiates high-value enterprise agreements, commercial contracts, and technology deals for AI products and partnerships. Collaborates with sales, product, and business teams to align legal strategies with objectives while mitigating risks in a fast-paced environment. Requires 8+ years experience and JD.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities

- Expertly draft, review, and negotiate complex technology agreements.
- Collaborate closely with technical, product, sales, finance, and legal team members to establish commercial legal strategies that align with business objectives.
- Design legal structures and operations that make it seamless to sell xAI’s incredible products while appropriately mitigating risks.
- Be a Swiss Army knife: pitch in with precision for anything needed in the legal department, even if it is unfamiliar.

## Required Qualifications

- 8+ years of legal experience–ideally through a combination of experience at innovative technology companies and top-tier law firms.
- In-house experience as commercial counsel preferred.
- Intellectual property and technology transactions experience a strong plus.
- Hungry to learn about the products and use cases xAI customers need.
- Understand the revenue-generation process and tackle legal issues with a practical, commercial-driven approach.
- Strong sense of ownership, genuine curiosity and enthusiasm for technology, a love for being continually challenged, problem solving, and consistent sound judgment when navigating complex and ambiguous situations.
- Strong drive to get things done.
- JD and license or qualification to practice law in California or New York.
- Commitment to being in-office 5 days/week.

## Compensation

**Annual Salary Range:** $240,000 - $285,000 USD

Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.

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