Senior Commercial Counsel

Synthesia; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI video technology company in the UK is seeking a Senior Commercial Counsel to draft and negotiate agreements, advise on legal matters, and support business operations. The ideal candidate has a law degree, fluency in English and French, and experience in commercial transactions, particularly within the tech sector. This full-time position offers a dynamic work environment and the opportunity to work on innovative projects.

Qualifications

• 6 years of post-qualification experience with commercial transactions.
• Experience in an in-house legal department in the tech sector.
• Exposure to negotiating with customers in EMEA.

Responsibilities

• Draft and negotiate commercial agreements.
• Advise on intellectual property and data privacy.
• Provide practical guidance balancing business objectives with legal risk.

Skills

Fluent in English and French

Comfortable negotiating data processing agreements

Clean and concise drafting

Experience working with large enterprise companies

Understanding of cloud services technology

Experience negotiating artificial intelligence terms

Education

Law degree from an accredited institution

Qualified to practice law as an in-house attorney

Job description

Welcome to the video first world!

From your everyday PowerPoint presentations to Hollywood movies AI will transform the way we create and consume content. Today people want to watch and listen not read both at home and at work. If youre reading this and nodding check out our brand video .

Despite the clear preference for video communication and knowledge sharing in the business environment are still dominated by text largely because high-quality video production remains complex and challenging to scaleuntil now.

Meet Synthesia

Were on a mission to make video easy for everyone. Our AI video communications platform makes it simple for anyone regardless of skill level to create collaborate and share high-quality video.

Trusted by brands like Heineken Zoom Xerox McDonalds and more we hit unicorn status in 2023 were named G2s fastest-growing company in the world in 2024 and in 2025 announced our Series D bringing total funding to $330M from world-class investors like NEA Accel Nvidia Kleiner Perkins GV and founders from Stripe Datadog and Webflow.

About the role

As a Commercial Counsel at Synthesia you will work closely with our Sales Marketing Finance Business Operations and Go-To-Market organizations. Our team is a network of knowledgeable and supportive professionals who work as a unit bringing bold ideas to the table and providing collaborative problem-solving. This role will report to the Head of Commercial Legal and be responsible for various legal-related matters and projects involved with supporting the teams that sell and build our products.

What you will be doing

As a Senior Commercial Counsel at Synthesia you will work closely with our Sales Marketing Finance Business Operations and Go-To-Market organizations. Our team is a network of knowledgeable and supportive professionals who work as a unit bringing bold ideas to the table and providing collaborative problem-solving. This role will report to the Head of Commercial Legal and be responsible for various legal-related matters and projects involved with supporting the teams that sell and build our products including :

• Drafting reviewing and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements to support sales partnerships and our purchase of software and services from vendors. Your primary focus will be on our service agreements software licenses data processing agreements and NDAs for our prospective customers in EMEA (particularly in France Italy and Spain). Well ask you to draw from the experience youve gained from supporting hundreds or thousands of commercial transactions to help define business terms and structure deals in an optimal way;
• Advising on a variety of areas ranging from intellectual property data privacy data security software licensing agreements and go-to-market strategy;
• Providing input on processes policies and playbooks to help scale the organization and make our team more effective and efficient;
• Providing effective advice by staying up-to-date on relevant industry commercial open source IP privacy employment and other laws regulations and developments;
• Developing the companys knowledge in areas of special interest including intellectual property data protection financial services healthcare and other regulatory matters; and
• Operating independently and providing practical decisive guidance to our business teams that balances business objectives with legal risk taking into account our company policies and practices negotiation positions.

Youre a great fit for the role if have the following characteristics

• Fluent in English and French
• Completion of a law degree from an accredited institution and qualified to practice law as an in-house attorney;
• 6 years of post-qualification experience working on different kinds of commercial transactions (e.g. strategic alliance SaaS IP licensing software licensing product resale and distribution working with contractors outsourcing facilities etc.) including with large enterprise companies companies in regulated industries (e.g. financial services healthcare etc.) government and edu companies
• Experience working in an in-house legal department ideally in the tech sector.
• Comfortable negotiating data processing agreements including a working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA as they relate to commercial contracts;
• Clean and concise drafting of documents policies Slack messages emails and other communications in a manner that is digestible for non-lawyers;
• Experience negotiating with customers in regions across EMEA;
• Understanding of cloud services technology and professional services contracts;
• Knowledge of non-legal business processes gained in-house relating to sales operations and revenue recognition;
• Experience managing workload on tight timelines with multiple competing demands; and
• Exposure and experience negotiating artificial intelligence terms including an understanding on AI models and the use of training data for building such models.

Required Experience

Senior IC

Key Skills

Forecasting,Hyperion,Cost Management,Construction Estimating,QlikView,Bus Driving,Analysis Skills,HubSpot,Salesforce,Market Research,negotiation,Financial Planning

Employment Type : Full Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1