Senior Commercial Counsel

Synthesia; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Synthesia is seeking a Senior Commercial Counsel to partner with Sales, Marketing and Finance in the Americas. This role will work with the Director, Commercial Legal (NYC-based) and handle a broad array of commercial legal matters, including software licenses, data processing agreements, and NDAs.

You’ll advise on IP, privacy, and data security while shaping contract terms to balance business and risk. Ideal candidates have a U.S.

Qualifications

• Completion of a law degree from an accredited U.S. institution and eligibility to practice as an in-house U.S. attorney.
• 6+ years of post-qualification experience on commercial transactions (e.g., SaaS, IP licensing).

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate a range of commercial agreements with customers, partners, and vendors.
• Provide practical legal advice across IP, data privacy, data security, and go-to-market arrangements.
• Develop and improve internal policies, playbooks, and processes to scale the legal team.
• Stay current on evolving laws and industry developments affecting the business; advise on risk and strategy.

Skills

Drafting & negotiating contracts

IP/licensing

Data privacy & security

Go-to-market advice

Regulatory awareness

Education

J.D. from an ABA-accredited law school

Job description

Synthesia

Synthesia is the world’s leading AI video platform for business, used by over 90% of the Fortune 100. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in London, with offices and teams across Europe and the US. As AI continues to shape the way we live and work, Synthesia develops products to enhance visual communication and enterprise skill development, helping people work better and stay at the center of successful organizations.Following our recent Series E funding round, where we raised $200 million, our valuation stands at $4 billion. Our total funding exceeds $530 million from premier investors including Accel, NVentures (Nvidia's VC arm), Kleiner Perkins, GV, and Evantic Capital, alongside the founders and operators of Stripe, Datadog, Miro, and Webflow.

The Role

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 Director, Commercial Legal (NYC-based, overseeing commercial legal work for the Americas), and be responsible for various legal-related matters and projects involved with supporting the teams that sell and build our products.

What You'll Do

• 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.
• We’ll ask you to draw from the experience you’ve 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, AI, and other laws, regulations, and developments.
• Developing the company’s knowledge in areas of special interest, including intellectual property, data protection, financial services, healthcare, AI governance, and other regulatory matters.
• Operating independently and providing practical, decisive guidance to our business teams that balances business objectives with legal risk, taking into account our company policies, practices and negotiation positions.

We’d love to hear from you if you haveCompletion of a law degree from an accredited U.S. institution, and qualified to practice law as an in-house U.S. attorney;6+ years of post‑qualification experience working on different kinds of commercial transactions (e.g., SaaS, IP licen