VAST Data
Global Head of Commercial Legal
Boston · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 12+ years of legal experience; must combine top-tier law firm training with significant in-house leadership.
- Education
- JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing.
About the job
Leads VAST Data’s global commercial legal function, handling strategic technology transactions while scaling its contract frameworks, team, and legal operations.
What you'll do
- Lead legal negotiations for complex software and infrastructure transactions and develop global commercial contract playbooks.
- Align commercial terms with international AI, privacy, and cross-border data requirements.
- Build and lead a distributed commercial legal team and implement AI-enabled legal operations, training, and performance metrics.
What they ask for
- JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing.
- 12+ years of legal experience, combining top-tier law firm training with significant in-house leadership at a hyper-growth enterprise SaaS, deep tech, or AI infrastructure company.
- Exceptional experience drafting and negotiating complex software licenses, technology partnerships, and cloud infrastructure agreements.
- Strong interest in and clear understanding of AI stacks, data storage architectures, GPU-accelerated environments, and enterprise data lifecycle management.
Nice to have
- Experience leading a commercial team through rapid international scale or a pre-IPO transition is highly desirable.
Tools
AI, CLM, GDPR, CCPA, EU AI Act
AI focus
Address legal issues involving AI and data governance, align terms with evolving AI regulations, and implement legal AI and contract lifecycle management infrastructure.
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