At a glance
- Experience
- 6+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Workplace
- Remote
- Location
- Remote
About the role
- Instacart is seeking a Commercial Counsel to work closely with business development, partnerships, product, and operations to solve legal problems and enable the business to scale and grow.
- This role involves drafting, negotiating, and implementing major enterprise and partner agreements across all areas of the business.
Responsibilities
- Draft, negotiate, and implement major enterprise and partner agreements across all areas of the business
- Lead negotiations with retailers and other strategic partners, aligning internal stakeholders and driving deals to close
- Provide strategic legal advice to internal business clients, including whether to approve, approve with conditions, decline, or escalate
- Lead special legal and cross-functional projects from start to finish
- Implement best practices for integrating AI into your work
- Stay current on advertising, competition, IP, consumer protection, gig economy, international, and privacy laws and regulations, and translate them into practical compliance advice
- Draft terms, policies, and disclosures, and build the processes that support them
- Advise internal clients on the application of executed agreements
- Create and update our form legal agreements and playbooks
- Train clients and colleagues on legal issues
Requirements
- A J.D. from a top-tier law school and membership with at least one state bar (preferably California)
- A minimum of 6 years of related experience working at a leading law firm or in-house legal department
- Strong experience with legal issues affecting the Internet and e-commerce spaces, particularly privacy, SaaS, and payments
- A strong history of managing strategic partner negotiations and contract drafting from start to finish
- Strong negotiation presence and the ability to lead teams working towards a goal
- Sound and practical business judgment and ability to manage multiple, high priority, competing priorities
- The ability to provide clear, concise legal advice, work effectively cross-functionally to drive to results
- A team player
Preferred qualifications
- In-house experience, especially at a tech company or retailer
- Experience in alcohol law, international law, and/or privacy and data security laws (including GDPR and CCPA/CPRA)
- Experience with AI governance and privacy-by-design in ML/AI product development
- Experience in AdTech
Benefits
- New hire equity grant
- Annual refresh grants
- Highly market-competitive compensation and benefits
Workplace
- Flex First team offering the flexibility to choose where to work from home, an office, or favorite coffee shop
- Role is remote
Skills
- Privacy
- SaaS
- Payments
- Contract Drafting
- Negotiation
- GDPR
- CCPA/CPRA
- AI Governance
- AdTech