Senior Counsel, Together AI
Commercial
$225-275k
+ Equity
Cloud platform for building generative AI
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Cloud platform for building generative AI
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
$225-275k
+ Equity
21-100 employees
Company mission
To empower developers and researchers at organizations of all sizes to train, fine-tune, and deploy generative AI models.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of commercial law, with the ability to balance both legal expertise and commercial savvy, be able to work cross-functionally with a dynamic team to solve complex legal issues and thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- 8+ years of relevant legal experience (preferably with some in-house counsel experience at a technology company)
- Deep experience negotiating and drafting software and hardware customer contracts, as well as a variety of other commercial agreements including supplier contracts, financing agreements and partnership agreements
- Excellent legal and business judgment with the ability to provide practical advice and creatively address complex legal matters with sensible solutions
- Proven ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize and work under tight timelines with close attention to detail
- Highly responsive and driven with a “doer” attitude, strong work ethic, accountability, and professionalism
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly and concisely to non-lawyers, and ability to work cross-functionally
- Experience creating and refining systems, processes and workflows to streamline contract management, optimize efficiency, and ensure consistency across the business as it scales
- J.D. degree from an ABA-approved law school; admitted to the bar and in good standing in California, or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status)
What the job involves
- As a Senior Counsel, Commercial at Together, your mission will be to support and enable the business to rapidly scale by providing legal counsel on commercial transactions
- You will have the opportunity to be at the cutting edge of one of the most important technological shifts of our time, interfacing with a variety of companies seeking to build successful AI-driven products and businesses
- Your primary focus will be to negotiate, draft, and manage commercial agreements with customers, suppliers and other key partners
- You will be the first legal hire at the company with an opportunity to build and shape the legal function of a rapidly growing AI startup
- Lead the negotiation, drafting, and review of key customer contracts, working closely with our sales team to close revenue deals
- Lead the negotiation, drafting and review of supplier contracts, debt financing agreements and other types of commercial contracts
- Provide expert legal advice to internal stakeholders, including sales, business development, and product teams, on customer contracts, legal risks, and commercial transactions. Ensure the contracts allow the business to both appropriately manage legal risk while facilitating business growth
- Develop and refine contract templates to streamline contract negotiations and ensure consistency in contract terms across the business
- Develop and implement processes for contract lifecycle management. Ensure that all agreements are properly tracked, that the business has an understanding of commercial terms across contracts, and that risk is appropriately managed across the business
- Build expertise to deeply understand the company’s product offerings, product portfolio and associated nuances
- Be ready to roll up your sleeves and wear multiple hats to help the company grow
Our take
Founded in 2022, Together AI is a research-driven AI company that operates a cloud platform for building and running generative AI. The company also contributes to open-source research, models and datasets to advance the use of machine learning.
Together AI's platform enables developers, researchers and businesses to train, fine-tune and deploy generative AI for their needs. With Generative AI gaining a lot of attention recently, the company has some high-profile competitors such as ChatGPT, but its focus on research makes it stand out.
The company has has an incredibly strong start, evidenced by its substantial funding and Unicorn status. It is using these funds to develop its products to cater for larger organisations, as well as expanding its compute capacity across the world.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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back within 2 weeks
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Mar 2024
$106m
SERIES A
Nov 2023
$102.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $228.5m
Company benefits
- Competitive health insurance plans
- Dental and vision insurance
- Pre-tax flexible spending accounts
- Mental health support and services
- Income protection & retirement
- 401(k) plan
- AD&D insurance
- Life insurance
- STD & LTD insurance
- Monthly team lunches
- Flexible time off policy
- Team-driven celebrations and events
- Monthly commuting stipend + pre-tax bene
Company values
- Empower Innovation - Everything works best when we help the open-source community work better together
- Discover the magic - Our wonder, curiosity, and hope drive us to find ways to make everyone’s lives better
- Do more with less - We are optimizers, making the most with what we have and not taking more than what we need
- Open to any prompt - We don’t know what’s possible until we try
- Model stewardship - We build everything with the purpose of benefiting society
Company HQ
The Castro, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Ce Zhang
(CTO)Previously Professor at ETH Zurich, Postdoc Researcher at Stanford University and Research Assistant at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Vipul Ved Prakash
(CEO)Previously Senior Director at Apple, CEO and CTO at Topsy and Founder at Cloudmark.
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