Commercial and International Counsel

meckaai; Richmond Hill; On-site; CAD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mecka AI is seeking a Commercial and International Counsel to draft and negotiate data licensing, capture partner, BPO and vendor agreements, while protecting data ownership and pricing risk. You will build templates and playbooks so our commercial teams can close deals without constant legal review.

In addition, you will lead the legal workstream for each new market, handling entity formation, local contractor and employment agreements, permanent establishment and tax exposure, plus licenses

Qualifications

• Law degree and admission to practice in at least one jurisdiction.
• 5 to 8+ years of commercial and transactional practice, including in-house time at a high-growth company operating in several countries.
• Deal work: drafting and negotiating customer agreements, data licensing, technology, vendor, and partnership agreements with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate data licensing agreements, capture partnerships, BPO and vendor agreements, and compute, cloud, and software contracts while protecting data ownership.
• Build standard agreements, negotiation playbooks with approved fallback positions, and an approval matrix so sales and partnerships can close routine deals without a full legal review.
• Lead the legal workstream for each new country, covering entity formation, local contractor and employment agreements, permanent establishment and tax exposure with finance, and the licences and filings a market needs before it opens.
• Advise on import/export of capture devices, customs classification, radio and product certification, warranties, and repair and logistics contracts in every market where our hardware is deployed.
• Select, brief, and manage local law firms across markets, set scopes and deadlines, and translate their assessments into decisions for operating teams.

Job description

About Mecka AI

Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI.
We design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by leading AI labs and robotics companies to train and validate humanoid and embodied AI systems.
We work closely with frontier robotics teams to bridge real-world data, simulation, learning-based systems, and deployed hardware.

About the Role

We sign contracts on both sides of our dataset. On the supply side we work with capture partners, merchants, BPO vendors, and enterprise partners under a mix of commercial structures, and on the demand side we license datasets to AI research labs. Each new market adds entity setup, local contractor and employment terms, and capture hardware that has to be imported, certified, and serviced.

As Commercial and International Counsel, you will draft and negotiate these agreements, build the templates and playbooks that let our commercial teams close deals without waiting on legal, and run the legal workstream for each new market alongside the operations team. You will protect our ownership of the data we collect and fund, and make sure the risk we accept in any contract is priced and capped.

What You Will Do

• Commercial contracts: Draft and negotiate data licensing agreements with AI customers, capture partnership agreements, BPO and vendor agreements, and compute, cloud, and software contracts, holding a firm line on data ownership and on vendor use of our data.
• Templates and playbooks: Build standard agreements, negotiation playbooks with approved fallback positions, and an approval matrix so that sales and partnership teams can close routine deals without a legal review of every term.
• Market entry: Lead the legal workstream for each new country, covering entity formation, local contractor and employment agreements, permanent establishment and tax exposure with finance, and the licences and filings a market needs before it opens.
• Hardware and trade: Advise on the import and export of capture devices, customs classification, radio and product certification, warranties, and repair and logistics contracts in every market where our hardware is deployed.
• Outside counsel: Select, brief, and manage local law firms across markets, set scopes and deadlines, hold firms to budget, and turn their assessments into clear decisions for the operating teams.

What You Bring

• Qualification: Law degree and admission to practice in at least one jurisdiction.
• Experience: 5 to 8+ years of commercial and transactional practice, including in-house time at a high-growth company operating in several countries.
• Deal work: A proven record of drafting and negotiating customer agreements, data licensing, technology, vendor, and partnership agreements with limited supervision, and of advising and training commercial teams on deal structure and risk allocation.

Even better if you have

• Data and IP: Experience with complex commercial contracts, including dataset licensing, ownership of collected data, and contracts with AI and machine learning companies.
• International: Direct experience setting up operations in new countries, including entity formation, contractor classification, and hardware imports.
• SOC 2 compliance or audit-readiness initiatives is an asset.

We strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, we will partner with you to meet your needs.

We may use AI-assisted tools to help evaluate applications against the requirements of this role. These tools support our recruiting team in identifying qualified candidates but do not replace human judgment or limit which applications may be reviewed or considered.