Senior Commercial Counsel, AI Hardware & Growth

Creandum; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity & Ownership

Proximity Bonus

Retirement Benefits

Job summary

OLIX is seeking a Senior Counsel (Commercial) to lead and scale the commercial legal function as the company accelerates. You will own end-to-end commercial contracting, lead negotiations on major deals with hyperscalers and partners, and build a high-performing team in a fast-moving hardware tech environment.

You will work closely with engineers and commercial leaders, shape playbooks and templates, and design AI-enabled workflows to scale the function with business growth.

Qualifications

• Qualified solicitor in England and Wales, or US-qualified attorney with 8–12 years of post-qualification experience.
• Experience leading complex commercial contract negotiations end to end.
• Demonstrable ability to draft precise contracts and to build scalable playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Own commercial legal work end to end, collaborating with the CLO on strategy, team, deal flow, tooling and standards.
• Lead negotiations on OLIX’s largest and most complex commercial deals, including customer agreements with hyperscalers and supply-chain agreements.
• Help build and scale the commercial legal team as OLIX grows, including hiring and mentoring junior lawyers.
• Set commercial legal standards, playbooks, fallback positions, and templates for contracting.
• Design and build scalable legal workflows using AI tooling and automation.
• Integrate AI into day-to-day contracting: triage, first-pass review, redline generation, clause extraction, precedent search and enforcement.
• Work with the CLO to define positions on key terms: liability caps, indemnities, IP, data protection, warranties, termination and SLAs.
• Own the IP dimension of commercial work: ownership, background/foreground IP, licensing, confidentiality and know-how provisions.
• Partner with Sales, Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations and Engineering to align legal with business strategy.
• Manage external counsel for US contracting, IP, data, and export controls.
• Contribute to cross-functional governance and regulatory work touched by commercial contracting.
• Support CLM tooling selection and internal enablement across the legal team.

Skills

Commercial negotiations

Contract drafting

Leadership

AI tooling

IP understanding

Regulatory compliance

Clear communication

Job description

OLIX is seeking a Senior Counsel (Commercial) to lead and scale the commercial legal function as the company accelerates. You will own end-to-end commercial contracting, lead negotiations on major deals with hyperscalers and partners, and build a high-performing team in a fast-moving hardware tech environment.

You will work closely with engineers and commercial leaders, shape playbooks and templates, and design AI-enabled workflows to scale the function with business growth.