Head of Commercial Legal, Writer
Plus company stock options
AI writing assistant
Job no longer available
AI writing assistant
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
Plus company stock options
201-500 employees
Company mission
To bring generative AI to the enterprise.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience where you’ve spent the majority of time working in-house supporting a SaaS-based platform
- Law degree from an accredited law school and admitted to practice law in the U.S
- You are a business person first that also happens to be a lawyer
- You’ve seen what it takes to successfully scale and grow a legal team within a high-growth business, and you have opinions on what to repeat and what to avoid
- You have experience supporting teams both in the United States and abroad
- You know how to bring people along with you and are a great communicator
- Prior management experience is a plus
- You are curious, reliable, like to move fast, and have a low ego
What the job involves
- We are looking for our first head of commercial legal who will report directly to our General Counsel and work together to build and scale Writer’s commercial legal function differently
- Provide legal advice and support on a wide range of commercial matters, including drafting, reviewing, and negotiating in-bound and outbound commercial agreements - SaaS experience is a must-have
- Build templates and playbooks that don’t just rinse and repeat old legal and commercial positions and that can adapt to the evolving legal, AI landscape
- Create thoughtful processes that benefit the business (not just legal) for how we support our internal stakeholders that will grow and scale
- Develop success metrics to help the commercial legal function take a date-informed approach to our work
- Support our partnerships team as they continue to build out Writer's strategic and channel partnerships function
- Enable and train our go-to-market teammates by giving them practical advice and guidance
Our take
AI-assisted writing tools have taken off over recent years. With the likes of high-exposure company Grammarly accelerating adoption of such tools, a flurry of startups have appeared to offer their own takes. Writer’s angle is to leverage AI as a means of standardizing and scaling both content and communications for business teams. The tool offers autofilling and inline suggestions that keep content aligned with pre-determined company language and style guides.
This branded fine-tuning function distinguishes it from full copy-generation competitors, as well as from Grammarly itself, which is a more generalist copyediting tool. It subsequently caters to major enterprise clients looking to maintain standards across multiple and sprawling teams, and the company has managed to net major clients like Deloitte, Twitter, UiPath, and Accenture.
While AI-related buzz remains solidly around generative AIs like ChatGPT and Bard, Writer's narrow target market - in which it has already found success - supplies plenty of scope to grow, as AI copyediting tools look set to rapidly become content industry standard. With continued new launches and updates to its offerings, as well as an impressive $200 million Series C awarded in 2024, the company is well-placed for further success.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
229% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Nov 2024
$200m
SERIES C
Sep 2023
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $326m
Company benefits
- Selection of employer-covered medical plans, plus dental, vision, life insurance, and FSA
- Flexible location and schedule options
- Competitive parental leave policy
- Company stock options
- 401k plan with employer contributions
- Learning and development stipend
- Generous PTO
- Distributed from Day 1: Our processes and operating cadence are built around a distributed culture
- SF office space: If you prefer working from an office, we have a beautiful sunny one in Union Square, the heart of San Francisco
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
May Habib
(Co-Founder & CEO)Harvard economics graduate, who was previously VP of sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Development Company, and a global shaper at the World Economic Forum. Also co-founded Qordoba.
Waseem Alshikh
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously co-founded CloudAppers, then served as CTO at iMENA. Subsequently co-founded AI content editor Qordoba.
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