Vercel
Legal Counsel - Commercial
$207K–$253K
Hybrid - San Francisco +1 · Full-time · Posted Sep 18, 2026
- Location
- Hybrid - San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- 6+ years of legal experience, including 2+ years of in-house commercial experience at a technology company.
About the job
Negotiates Vercel’s commercial agreements and advises business teams while using AI to improve legal workflows and contracting efficiency.
What you'll do
- Independently negotiate customer, vendor, partnership, and reseller agreements; advise go-to-market and procurement teams.
- Draft and maintain agreement templates, playbooks, and fallback positions, and improve contracting processes and tools using AI.
- Advise on regional expansion and support commercial legal work in EMEA and APAC, as well as product, privacy, and security initiatives.
What they ask for
- Qualified and in good standing to practice law in California or another US jurisdiction.
- 6+ years of legal experience, including 2+ years of in-house commercial experience at a technology company (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, or AI).
- Proven experience independently negotiating technology agreements with enterprise customers and vendors.
- Working knowledge of US privacy regulations and the regulatory landscape for AI and cloud services, plus experience using AI tools to build legal workflows.
Nice to have
- Have used Vercel's products and services.
- Have supported channel or reseller partnerships; are fluent in another language.
Pay
$207,000 - $253,000 USD base salary
Tools
SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, AI
AI focus
Use AI tools to build legal workflows and improve contracting processes, deal speed, and consistency.
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