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Commercial Counsel

Fireworks · San Mateo · Remote

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About Fireworks

Fireworks’ state of the art training and inference platform take you beyond the frontier, transforming open models into your specialized intelligence. Backed by Insight.

About the role

As Commercial Counsel, you'll be a foundational member of a growing legal team, serving as a trusted partner to our go-to-market organization as it scales rapidly. You'll own commercial contracting across the deal lifecycle — drafting, negotiating, and closing customer agreements — and show up confidently and credibly across the table with our customers and partners. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 9+ years of relevant experience, with a mix of law firm and in-house ideal. Experience in hypergrowth environments preferred
  • A JD and membership in at least one US state bar
  • Strong command of commercial contracting, able to operate independently and show up confidently in negotiations
  • Comfort supporting a fast-moving, rapidly maturing sales organization, and translating legal complexity into practical guidance
  • Fastidious attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, and energized by standing up process rather than inheriting it
  • AI-forward, builder’s mindset, with a demonstrated ability to use AI tools to streamline daily workflows and accelerate efficiency
More about this role

Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.

We're building the infrastructure that democratizes access to intelligence. By serving state-of-the-art models to enterprises and advancing open source, we enable organizations to truly own their own intelligence. Our legal team exists to make that mission possible, responsibly and at scale, because we believe broad access to AI is one of the most consequential things we can build for society. Our legal team is defined by high integrity, high character, and high trust. We're low-ego, collaborative, kind, and supportive people who are genuinely excited to be part of a team. We win...

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