Senior Counsel, Commercial

Responsibilities: — Take full ownership of commercial legal work end to end, collaborating with the Chief Legal Officer on strategy, team development, deal flow, tooling, and standards. — Lead negotiations on OLIX's largest and most complex commercial deals, including agreements with hyperscalers, manufacturing and supply chain contracts, NREs, JDAs, technology licenses, and strategic partnerships. — Help build and scale the commercial legal team, including hiring, developing, and managing team members. — Establish commercial legal standards, playbooks, fallback positions, and templates for contracting. — Make risk decisions and assist the business in making informed risk calls. — Navigate ambiguity, frame legal and commercial risks clearly, recommend positions, and own decisions even in rapidly changing contexts. — Design and implement scalable legal workflows using AI tools and automation to increase efficiency beyond headcount growth. — Integrate AI into daily contracting tasks such as triage, review, redline generation, clause extraction, precedent search, and playbook enforcement. — Define OLIX's positions on key commercial terms including liability caps, indemnities, IP ownership and licensing, data protection, warranties, termination, and service levels. — Manage the intellectual property aspects of commercial work, including structuring and negotiating IP ownership, licensing, confidentiality, and know-how provisions. — Collaborate closely with engineering and IP counsel to protect core technology and define IP strategy. — Partner with Sales, Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, and Engineering to align legal work with business strategy. — Manage external counsel for specialized workstreams such as US contracting, specialist IP, data, and export controls. — Contribute to legal tooling selection, CLM implementation, and internal enablement across the legal team. Requirements: — Qualified solicitor in England and Wales or US-qualified attorney with 8 to 12 years post-qualification experience. — Training at a top-tier City, US, or comparable international firm. — Technically excellent lawyer with rigorous legal analysis, precise drafting, and structured approach to playbooks and standard forms. — Proven track record leading complex commercial contract negotiations end to end as the responsible lawyer. — Technical IP experience negotiating IP ownership, licensing, confidentiality, and know-how provisions in technology development and manufacturing agreements, ideally in semiconductors, hardware, or deep technology. — Ability to operate comfortably in ambiguity and make risk decisions. — Experience building or contributing to a commercial legal function in a fast-moving technology or hardware business, preferably a venture-backed scale-up. — Line-management or mentoring experience with junior counsel or paralegals. — Comfortable with technical subject matter and able to engage credibly with engineers. — AI-native approach to legal work, actively using AI tools and focusing on scalable systems over manual work. — Commercially pragmatic, able to move quickly and own positions independently. — Direct and clear communicator with high ownership and team-oriented mindset. Nice to Have: — Experience in technology or technical manufacturing, especially B2B hardware, semiconductors, or infrastructure. — Supply chain experience including manufacturing, component, and logistics arrangements. — Familiarity with enterprise or cloud customer contracting and bespoke negotiations with hyperscalers. — Understanding of export controls and data protection in commercial contracts. — Experience with CLM or legal AI tooling implementation or selection. — Light coding or low-code skills for building internal workflows. Benefits: — Competitive salary commensurate with experience, skills, and location. — Meaningful stock options. — Annual Living-Local Bonus for residents within 20 minutes of the office. — Employer-contributed retirement plans. Additional Information: — Open to UK-based candidates and US-qualified attorneys willing to relocate to London. — Full visa sponsorship and relocation support provided. — Eligibility to work at OLIX depends on recent citizenship or permanent residency due to U.S. export control regulations. — Certain countries are restricted for applicants based on citizenship or residency. — Applicants with subsequent citizenship or residency in eligible countries may still apply. Relocation support is provided for the UK (London).