Founding Commercial Attorney
San Francisco · Full time · Posted 13D AGO
$180K - $250K; 0.20% - 0.40% equity
About the role
What you'll do
- Act as a lead for commercial work and shaping product strategy and go-to-market approach
- Own commercial legal work end to end — drafting, reviewing, and negotiating MSAs, commercial contracts, NDAs, and other core agreements when needed
- Build, test, and refine our US product from a legal perspective, evolving core templates and playbooks
- Partner with the founding team to design scalable legal workflows that drive product adoption and growth
- Provide strategic guidance on US commercial and corporate matters as we scale
What we're looking for
- 4+ years of experience with commercial/contracts law at a leading law firm or in-house at a major tech company or growth startup
- Deep experience drafting and negotiating contracts and MSAs
- JD and active license to practice law in NYC or SF (non negotiable requirement)
- Based in, or willing to move to, San Francisco
- Entrepreneurial mindset and excitement about building something new
- Genuine interest in innovation, AI, and legal tech
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced, early-stage startup environment
- Reside in SF/Bay-area and ready to work 5 days a week in office
Compensation: $ 180K-250K + equity.
About Moritz
Moritz is a global AI-native law firm that will handles legal work with same day turnaround.
Our lawyers have closed $ 3bn in deals with an average turnaround of 4-hours. No other law firm offers this kind of speed for complex deals.
We're backed by YC, 20VC and the founders of Dropbox, Gusto, Instacart, Reddit, Superhuman, Producthunt, HuggingFace and 15 other unicorn founders.
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