Senior Commercial Counsel
Profound is the marketing platform for the AI era. As people increasingly turn to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini to decide what to buy, we give brands the intelligence to see how AI represents them and the Agents to act on it. Today, ~13% of the Fortune 500, plus companies like Ramp, Figma, Chime, Calendly, and DocuSign, use Profound to turn AI Search from a black box into a measurable growth channel.
Backed by Lightspeed, Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, and Khosla Ventures at a $1B valuation, we're a lean, fast-moving team across NYC, SF, Buenos Aires, and London, shipping at a relentless pace and defining a new category at the biggest shift in marketing in 25 years. If you want to do the best work of your career at the frontier of AI, come build it with us.
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.
What you’ll do
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
Who you are
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.
Location
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.
Note: All official communication from Profound will come from a @tryprofound.com email address. If you're contacted by anyone using a different domain, please disregard and report it as spam.
