Junior Commercial Counsel

Vector Legal; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Vector.inc.

Good benefits

Job summary

Vector Legal is hiring a junior attorney with 1–3 years of experience to serve as both a client advisor and negotiator, helping shape our platform and workflows. You will work across commercial contracting, from NDAs and non-reliance letters to more complex tech, services, and data privacy agreements.

You will collaborate with engineering and product teams to translate legal expertise into scalable playbooks and platform features, while learning from senior attorneys in a fast-paced,

Qualifications

• JD with active bar admission in CA or CO and eligibility for in-house practice.
• 1–3 years of experience at a law firm or in-house legal team.
• Foundation in commercial contracting law and familiarity with NDAs, SOWs, and services agreements.

Responsibilities

• Review and negotiate commercial contracts, starting with NDAs, non-reliance letters, engagement letters, and SOWs.
• Assist in building scalable legal playbooks, templates, and workflows.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to translate legal requirements into platform features.
• Support senior counsel for startups, PE firms, and large companies across transactions.
• Maintain high standards of legal quality in a fast-paced tech-enabled environment.

Skills

Contract drafting

Negotiation

Legal tech familiarity

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Juris Doctor (JD)

Active California/Colorado Bar

Job description

We’re hiring a junior attorney (1–3 years of experience) to serve as both a client advisor and counterparty-facing negotiator and a contributor to our platform. This is a hybrid role combining traditional legal practice with product-minded thinking, working directly with startup and company clients while helping shape how legal services are delivered through our system. You’ll operate across a broad range of commercial contracting work, starting with documents like NDAs and non-reliance letters, and engagement letters, and growing into more complex areas such as services, technology, and data privacy agreements. In parallel, you’ll work closely with engineering and product to translate legal expertise into scalable workflows, playbooks, and platform features. This role is best suited for a business-minded attorney who has strong fundamentals and attention to detail, is eager to learn and is a great team player, and is excited about rethinking how legal services are built and delivered. Location: San Francisco, CA; Colorado; or Remote (US).

What you will do:

• Support senior counsel for private equity firms, large public companies, and startups across commercial and transactional matters
• Review and negotiate commercial contracts, starting with inbound and outbound NDAs, non-reliance letters, engagement letters, schedules to master agreements, and statements of work
• Use a first-in-class AI tech stack (VectorOS) that creates tremendous efficiencies in your work product and workflow. VectorOS is a true game-changer.
• Grow into additional document types over time, including master and consulting services agreements, leases, DPAs and BAAs, SaaS/PaaS and AI licensing, terms of service, privacy policies, and reliance and engagement letters
• Assist in building and refining legal playbooks, templates, and best practices
• Collaborate with product and engineering to translate legal workflows into platform features
• Contribute to the development of scalable, repeatable legal processes
• Learn from and work alongside senior legal team members and paralegals
• Maintain high standards of legal quality while operating in a fast-paced, tech-enabled environment

Qualifications:

• JD and active membership in the California or Colorado Bar (or eligibility to register as in-house counsel)
• 1–3 years of experience at a law firm or in-house legal team
• Foundational knowledge of commercial contracting law
• Some experience with core commercial documents (for example: NDAs, services agreements, or SOWs) and a demonstrated desire to expand into technology agreements, data privacy, engagement and reliance letters, and other document types
• Developing ability to manage client relationships with supervision
• Strong drafting, research, and issue-spotting skills
• Interest in legal technology and building scalable systems required

Compensation:

$100,000 - $160,000

• Good benefits and eligible to receive equity in our technology partner company - Vector.inc.

About Vector Legal

A modern solution for Startup legal: we are a premier, full service, hybrid AI law firm & legal tech platform. We were recently featured in business insider, https://www.businessinsider.com/vector-legal-seed-funding-mitch-duncombe-y-combinator-2026-7