Commercial Counsel

San Mateo · New York · 9+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Oct 15, 2026

At a glance

Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.

As Commercial Counsel, you will be a foundational member of a growing legal team, serving as a trusted partner to the go-to-market organization as it scales.
You will own commercial contracting across the deal lifecycle, including drafting, negotiating, and closing customer agreements.
Beyond core sales support, you will counsel the marketing team on sponsorship and partnership agreements and handle standard vendor and procurement matters.

Serve as lead commercial counsel on customer contracts, NDAs, and related agreements supporting the sales organization.
Partner strategically with sales teams to structure deals, manage risk, and keep deals moving.
Advise marketing on sponsorship agreements and go-to-market campaigns.
Handle standard vendor and procurement agreements.
Help build the scalable templates, playbooks, and processes a founding legal function needs.

9+ years of relevant experience, with a mix of law firm and in-house experience.
A JD and membership in at least one US state bar.
Strong command of commercial contracting, able to operate independently and show up confidently in negotiations.
Comfort supporting a fast-moving, rapidly maturing sales organization.
Ability to translate legal complexity into practical guidance.
Fastidious attention to detail and excellent organizational skills.
AI-forward, builder’s mindset with a demonstrated ability to use AI tools to streamline workflows.