Assistant General Counsel, Commercial

BaseTen Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Own the full lifecycle of enterprise commercial agreements including MSAs, order forms, DPAs, BAAs, SOWs, and NDAs as the primary legal partner to Sales and Go-To-Market teams throughout the deal cycle.
• Serve as product counsel by advising on how AI inference, multi-tenancy, model deployment, data flows, and SLAs translate into contract terms, and translate technical architecture into actionable risk positions for Sales and customers.
• Own the commercial and legal terms for Baseten’s model marketplace and model distribution agreements, including defining responsibility allocations between Baseten and third-party model providers.
• Lead the legal workstream for go-to-market and strategic partnerships, structuring collaboration, reseller, and co-sell arrangements that protect Baseten’s IP and independence while enabling distribution.
• Build, own, and continuously improve commercial templates, playbooks, and standard contractual positions based on market feedback and leadership risk appetite.
• Partner with Finance on revenue recognition for non-standard deal structures and with Security and Compliance on data protection, regulated-data, and security commitments in customer contracts.
• Drive deal velocity by identifying which contractual terms are negotiable versus non-negotiable, and clearly explaining trade-offs to Sales Executives, CFOs, and Chief Legal Officers.
• Advise the Chief Legal Officer on commercial and contractual risk, proactively advocating for updates to Baseten’s legal positions, playbooks, and risk posture as the product and market evolve.
• Assist on M&A and other strategic or one-off transactions as needed.
• Help build and mentor the commercial legal team as it scales, contributing across team needs including cross-functional and ad-hoc legal work.
• Engage directly with Engineering, Sales, and Product teams to understand how Baseten’s AI inference platform operates — including compute, orchestration, deployment, and optimization — to inform contract drafting and negotiation.
• Maintain deep familiarity with data privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA) and security provisions as they appear in commercial contracts.
• Leverage AI-assisted legal tooling to self-serve efficiently and operate at high velocity in a fast-moving environment.
• Contribute to shaping Baseten’s commercial legal strategy as the company scales from a high-growth startup to an enterprise-grade AI infrastructure platform.
• Act as a trusted advisor to non-lawyers, translating complex legal and technical concepts into clear, actionable guidance without creating deal friction.
• Maintain autonomy in a lean legal function, knowing when to own decisions independently and when to escalate for leadership input.
• Become a recognized thought leader in commercial law at the intersection of AI infrastructure and enterprise SaaS.

🎯 Requirements

• JD and active bar membership in good standing
• 8+ years of commercial / technology transactions experience, with meaningful in-house time at a B2B SaaS, cloud, or developer-infrastructure company
• Demonstrated product-counsel instinct: advised a technical product org, not just papered deals, and can hold your own in conversations about product architecture
• Proven ability to negotiate sophisticated enterprise agreements at the redline level and manage high deal volume without losing detail
• Strong working knowledge of data privacy (GDPR, CCPA) and security provisions (DPAs, security addenda) in commercial contracts
• Clear, direct communicator who can translate legal and technical concepts for non-lawyers and push back constructively without creating deal friction

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation, including meaningful equity
• 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance for employee and dependents
• Flexible PTO policy including company-wide Winter Break (offices closed from Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day)
• Paid parental leave
• Fertility and family-building stipend through Carrot
• Company-facilitated 401(k)
• Exposure to a variety of ML startups, offering unparalleled learning and networking opportunities

Skills & Technologies

Apache Spark

Onsite

Degree Required

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About BaseTen Inc.

BaseTen provides a serverless, GPU-accelerated platform that lets machine-learning teams deploy, scale and monitor custom models behind autoscaling inference endpoints. The service abstracts infrastructure management, supports PyTorch, TensorFlow and Hugging Face artifacts, and offers built-in observability, A/B testing and fine-tuning. Customers integrate via REST or GraphQL APIs and pay only for compute used. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, BaseTen targets data scientists and product teams seeking production-grade ML serving without Kubernetes complexity.

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