Braintrust
Commercial Counsel
- Location
- San Francisco, US
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Posted
- 19 August 2026 (about a month ago)
Checked about a month agoApplications go to the employer, never to RoleSprint
About this role
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Braintrust is the agent observability platform. By actively applying intelligence to agent traces and automatically surfacing the most critical patterns, Braintrust gives teams the visibility to understand how agents behave in production and the tools to improve them.
Teams at Notion, Stripe, Box, OpenAI, and Cloudflare use Braintrust to trace their agents, find the issues in their observability data, and run evals that tell them how to improve.
ABOUT THE ROLE
We’re looking for our first in-house legal hire to join Braintrust. This role will be critical as we scale our sales and customer base, helping us close deals, navigate data privacy, and build a scalable legal function from the ground up.
You’ll work closely with sales, product, engineering, and leadership to negotiate enterprise contracts, ensure compliance with data regulations, and design the processes that allow us to move quickly without unnecessary risk. This is a hands-on role where you’ll set strategy and also roll up your sleeves to get deals across the line.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
Contracts and Commercial Support
- Negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements including SaaS and on-prem agreements, MSAs, NDAs, vendor agreements, consulting agreements, DPAs, and partnership agreements
- Lead legal support for complex, high-value enterprise sales transactions, and work closely with our sales team to close deals
- Build strong working relationships with customer legal teams to accelerate adoption
Scaling the Legal Function
- Develop contract playbooks, template agreements, and streamlined processes for the sales team
- Implement tools and systems to increase visibility, improve workflows, and maintain deal velocity
- Support governance, risk, and compliance programs
Cross-Functional Partnership
- Collaborate with Sales, Finance, HR, Product, and Engineering to ensure legal alignment across the business
- Provide strategic guidance on commercial legal matters, emerging regulations, and market trends
- Support leadership with corporate governance and fundraising as needed
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- JD from an accredited law school and admitted to the bar and in good standing in California, or otherwise authorized to practice law (e.g., have registered in-house status)
- 6+ years of relevant legal experience, including at least 2 years in-house at a high-growth SaaS company
- Extensive experience with enterprise software agreements and technology transactions
- Ability to balance legal risk with business objectives and keep deals moving
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
- Comfort operating as a team of one while building the function for scale
NICE TO HAVE
- Experience with AI, developer platforms, or cloud infrastructure
- Familiarity with the legal considerations around AI-assisted development and enterprise adoption
- Background working with customers in regulated industries such as healthcare or finance
- Experience building legal processes through a hyper-growth phase
BENEFITS INCLUDE
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Daily lunch, snacks, and beverages
- Flexible time off
- Competitive salary and equity
- Wifi & cellphone stipend
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
Braintrust is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
Work location
- US
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Published 19 August 2026, last checked about a month ago. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.