Senior Commercial Counsel, Taktile

$170-215k

Offers equity

Senior and Expert level

New York

Remote from US

Agentic decision platform for financial institutions

Job no longer available

Agentic decision platform for financial institutions

201-500 employees

FintechCredit ScoringB2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseBig dataMachine LearningFinancial ServicesSaaSCloud Computing

Job no longer available

$170-215k

Offers equity

Senior and Expert level

New York

Remote from US

201-500 employees

FintechCredit ScoringB2BArtificial IntelligenceEnterpriseBig dataMachine LearningFinancial ServicesSaaSCloud Computing

Company mission

To empower financial institutions to quickly unlock AI-driven efficiencies across the customer lifecycle, reducing manual work while optimizing decisions and enabling seamless end-user experiences.

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Company

Role

Who you are

Qualified: JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership
Experienced: 5+ years of experience in tech transactions, with significant time spent in-house at a high-growth SaaS or Fintech company
We're eager to meet talented and driven candidates regardless of whether they tick all the boxes. We're looking for someone who will add to our culture, not just fit within it. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underestimated and underrepresented in tech to apply

Desirable

Fintech-Fluent: You understand the nuances of credit risk, lending data, and the regulatory scrutiny our customers face
Systems Thinker: You don't just want to review redlines; you want to implement a CLM and automate the 80% so you can focus on the strategic 20%

What the job involves

We at Taktile are seeking our first US-based Legal hire
As (Senior) Commercial Counsel, you will be the primary legal architect for our North and South American operations
You will sit at the intersection of law, sales, and product, ensuring our agentic decision platform scales safely and rapidly
This is a "player-coach" role: you will draft the contracts today while building the legal operations that will support the company for years to come
This role reports into our CFO
Lead the Deal: Own the end-to-end sales contract lifecycle for the Americas. Draft and negotiate high-stakes MSAs, SaaS agreements, DPAs and NDAs with sophisticated fintechs and global banks
Build the Machine: As the first US legal hire, you will design and implement Taktile’s US sales-legal workflow. This includes creating playbooks, fallback positions, and "self-service" tools for our GTM team
Partnership Expansion: Lead legal strategy for our burgeoning reseller and partner ecosystem, ensuring our indirect sales channels are robust and compliant
Vendor & Procurement: Review and negotiate key vendor and technology agreements
Regulatory Landscape: Advise on US privacy laws, AI and automated decision-making regulations, financial services requirements (FCRA, ECOA, GLBA, AML/BSA, UDAP/UDAAP), and data security standards as they impact Taktile's platform and customer contracts
Bridge the Atlantic: Coordinate with our German HQ (Taktile GmbH) regarding IP licensing and intercompany agreements under the Taktile Holding umbrella

Our take

Taktile’s goal is to enable financial services enterprises to adopt machine learning (ML) technology and deliver ML applications. Whilst ML may seem old news, these businesses have been slow to adopt it due to a shortage of expertise, IT resources and regulatory freedom.

This means that the wealth of data at their fingertips tends to go underutilized. With Taktile, these organizations can easily deploy, maintain, and monitor ML applications on a single platform, finally putting crucial ML tools in the hands of enterprise level businesses.

Taktile has inspired impressive confidence in some high-profile backers, including Y Combinator, and the founders of industry behemoths like Datadog and Github. With platforms like Taktile's playing a facilitating role in the AI revolution of financial services, the road ahead should provide ample opportunity for innovation and growth.

Freddie

Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle

Insights

Top investors

103% employee growth in 12 months

Glassdoor (4.9)

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Feb 2025

$54m

SERIES B

Nov 2022

$20m

SERIES A

Total funding: $78.9m

Company HQ

Chelsea, New York, NY

Leadership

Maximilian Eber

(Co-Founder & CPTO)

Maximilian holds a PhD in Philosophy from Harvard University. Prior to co-founding Taktile in 2020, he worked in Machine Learning and Casual Interface at QuantCo for over 4 years.

Maik Taro Wehmeyer

(Co-Founder & CEO)

Maik is a Member of the European Commission European AI Alliance, and Founding Member at KI Bundesverband. Previously, he was a Machine Learning Engineer at QuantCo and a Research Associate at Harvard Business School.

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