Senior Commercial Counsel, Anyscale
$249.5k
+ Stock Options
3+ days a week in office (Hawthorne Street, SF)
Scalable compute for AI and Python
Job no longer available
Scalable compute for AI and Python
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$249.5k
+ Stock Options
3+ days a week in office (Hawthorne Street, SF)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make scalable computing effortless.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for someone with significant B2B SaaS experience, honed in top-tier legal environments and academic institutions
- The ideal candidate thrives in dynamic settings, leverages their creativity and persuasive skills, and has experience in heavily regulated industries
- Education & Credentials: JD from a top law school
- Experience: 10+ years of legal experience, with a significant portion spent in top law firms and in-house roles. Proven track record of handling SaaS B2B transactions is essential
- Industry Expertise: Experience negotiating deals with customers in regulated sectors with a deep understanding of the legal landscape in these industries
- Autonomy & Judgment: Demonstrated ability to work independently and make informed decisions with minimal supervision
- Commercial Acumen: Strong business judgment with a focus on balancing legal risks with business outcomes. Capable of understanding what matters and effectively communicating that perspective
- Creativity & Persuasiveness: Proven capability in crafting innovative legal strategies, and the ability to persuasively advocate for solutions that align with both legal and business objectives
What the job involves
- As Senior Commercial Counsel, you will be a key member of our legal team, responsible for leading and negotiating complex commercial transactions, providing strategic counsel to our internal stakeholders, and driving initiatives that support our business growth
- Lead and Negotiate Deals: Take the lead in structuring, drafting, and negotiating complex customer and vendor agreements
- Provide Strategic Guidance: Advise internal stakeholders on commercial strategy, risk mitigation, and regulatory implications, ensuring alignment with our business objectives
- Autonomous Decision-Making: Exercise significant autonomy in managing legal matters, making calls, and providing practical solutions tailored to our rapidly evolving business environment
- Regulatory Compliance: Significant experience with managing data privacy and processing risk (including GDPR, CCPA, etc;); negotiate deals with regulated business (including healthcare (HIPAA)), including business associate agreements, identifying compliance risks and collaborating with relevant departments
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Work closely with teams across the organization, including sales, product, finance, and operations, to support key business initiatives and strategic partnerships
- Creative Problem-Solving: Apply your legal acumen and innovative thinking to craft solutions that address both legal and business priorities, persuasively advocating for outcomes that drive business growth
- External Partner Management: Engage with and manage external counsel when necessary, optimizing efficiency and quality of legal services
Our take
Anyscale operates at the heart of the rapidly expanding AI infrastructure market, where organizations increasingly need systems build to handle large-scale, multimodal, and compled Ai workloads. Founded by the original creators of Ray - and open-source distributed computing framework powering companies like Netflix, Uber, and OpenAI - Anyscale was built to overcome the "AI complexity wall" that legacy compute can't handle. And its providing an AI-native platform that can scale seamlessly from as ingle machine to thousands of GPUs.
The company's impact come from making distributed AI development faster, easier, and far more efficient. By pairing Ray's flexible compute framework with managed clusters, advanced developer tooling, and performance optimization, Anyscale removes the operational burden of scaling AI. Companies like Canva, Recursion, and RunwayML have seen dramatic gains in utilization, speed and cost. So it's fair to say Anyscale has helped teams deliver AI applications faster and with greater reliability.
The company recently strengthened its position through major partnerships with Azure, CoreWeave, and Google CLoud, bringing AI-native compute directly into enterprise environments. New capabilities like RayTurbo, Kubernetes-native deployment, and first-party managed Ray services make it easier than ever to run high-performance AI at dscale. With model sizes and multimodal workloads growing rapidly, Anyscale is in a good position to remain a foundational platform for organizations building the next generation of AI systems.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
133% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Aug 2022
$99m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $259.6m
Company benefits
- Health, Vision, and Dental Care: We offer a wide range of health, dental, and vision coverage options for you and your family—including many plans that are 99% covered by Anyscale
- Fertility Benefits & Paid Parental Leave: Anyscalers can access fertility benefits through Kindbody. Team members can take advantage of 12 weeks of paid leave following the arrival of a new little one.
- Flexible Time Off: We believe all team members should be able to rest up and recharge when needed, which is why we’ve embraced a flexible time off policy at Anyscale.
- Learning & Wellness Stipend: We believe in investing in our #1 asset: our people. We offer a monthly learning and wellness stipend so employees can better themselves at work or pursue personal interests.
- In-Office Meals: Lunch is served everyday in our San Francisco and Palo Alto Offices. Dinner, too, if you’re ever working late. And did we mention boba runs?
- Commute Reimbursement: Whether you’re hopping on public transit or driving yourself to work, Anyscale covers a portion of your commuting costs each month.
- Paid Volunteer Time Off: Give back to the causes and communities you love with paid time off specifically for volunteer work.
- Mental Health Benefits: All Anyscalers can take advantage of included mental health benefits through our Headspace offering.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Phillip Moritz
(Co-Founder & CTO)Phillip graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a PhD in Computer Science.
Keerti Melkote
(CEO)Prior to joining Anyscale in 2024, Keerti spent 5 years at Hewlett Packard Enterprise at the President of Intelligent Edge. He also co-founded Aruba Networks where he spent nearly 20 years in roles including CTO and CEO.
Jooree Na
(CFO)Prior to joining Anyscale in 2024, Jooree spent over 5 years at Confluent, joining as a Director of Technical Accounting & Reporting before working through different roles and becoming the VP of Finance.
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