Senior Commercial Counsel

Profound is the fastest-growing AI marketing platform, used by 15% of the Fortune 500 including Comcast, Estée Lauder, and Walmart, and innovators like Ramp, MongoDB, and Figma. It is where marketing teams do the work: research, briefs, content, campaigns, reporting, all in one place, alongside agents that carry the load with them.

Built on 2B+ real user prompts and growing, Profound’s data shows you what people ask AI and what the models say back. Profound's AI Marketer joins that data with deep context about our customers to find the opportunities worth acting on, and then puts agents to work: automating reporting, drafting content, auditing pages for readability, running competitive research. It measures what works and gets better every day.

As our Senior Commercial Counsel, you’ll be the legal backbone of our sales motion: responsible for reviewing, redlining, and negotiating contracts with a wide variety of customers and partners. You’ll work closely with Sales and Leadership to keep deals moving while protecting Profound’s interests.

• Review, redline, and negotiate a variety of outbound (sell-side) commercial agreements, procurement agreements, partnership agreements, and bespoke business development deals

• Act as the primary legal contact for Sales to facilitate the entire deal process from A to Z through contract execution

• Create and maintain contract templates and playbooks for efficiency

• Implement and continue to iterate on the company’s AI legal ops strategy

• Monitor data privacy, AI, and IP regulations to provide actionable guidance

• 6-10 years of legal experience, with at least 2 years negotiating B2B SaaS contracts at a global in-house data-centric SaaS organization with high deal velocity.

• Above all, you must have excellent judgment and critical thinking skills.

• You have an obsession with internal client and external customer happiness, with a demonstrated history of promoting scalable processes and procedures.

• You are independent, patient, thoughtful, and adept at managing shifting priorities in a demanding, fast-paced environment, but at the same time possess the judgment to know when and how to escalate issues.

• Ability to manage the sales contract review process autonomously

• Skilled in the transactional aspects of GDPR

• Pragmatic approach to balancing legal risk and business needs

• Exceptional communication skills for conveying legal concepts to non-lawyers

• Experience in-house at a high-growth AI/data-centric products is a major plus

• Licensed to practice law in the U.S.

This is an on-site role based in our Union Square, NYC office, designed for builders who thrive on speed, iteration, and meaningful impact.

For this role, the expected base salary range is $200,000 to $240,000. Profound’s total compensation package is designed to be competitive and includes base salary, equity, and a full range of benefits and perks. Final compensation will depend on factors such as your skills, experience, qualifications, and location, and will be determined during the interview process. Our recruiting team will share more details about the full compensation package and benefits as you move through hiring.

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