Senior Commercial Counsel

Synthesia

  • London
  • Permanent
  • Full-time
  • 4 days ago
Welcome to the video first world!From your everyday PowerPoint presentations to Hollywood movies, AI will transform the way we create and consume content. Today, people want to watch and listen, not read - both at home and at work. If you're reading this and nodding, check out our .Despite the clear preference for video, communication and knowledge sharing in the business environment are still dominated by text, largely because high-quality video production remains complex and challenging to scale-until now….Meet SynthesiaWe're on a mission to make video easy for everyone. Our AI video communications platform makes it simple for anyone, regardless of skill level, to create, collaborate, and share high-quality video.Trusted by brands like Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald's and more, we hit unicorn status in 2023, were named G2's fastest-growing company in the world in 2024, and in 2025 announced our Series D - bringing total funding to $330M+ from world-class investors like NEA, Accel, Nvidia, Kleiner Perkins, GV, and founders from Stripe, Datadog, and Webflow.About the roleAs a Commercial Counsel at Synthesia, you will work closely with our Sales, Marketing, Finance, Business Operations, and Go-To-Market organizations. Our team is a network of knowledgeable and supportive professionals who work as a unit, bringing bold ideas to the table and providing collaborative problem-solving. This role will report to the Head of Commercial Legal, and be responsible for various legal-related matters and projects involved with supporting the teams that sell and build our products.What you will be doingAs a Senior Commercial Counsel at Synthesia, you will work closely with our Sales, Marketing, Finance, Business Operations, and Go-To-Market organizations. Our team is a network of knowledgeable and supportive professionals who work as a unit, bringing bold ideas to the table and providing collaborative problem-solving. This role will report to the Head of Commercial Legal, and be responsible for various legal-related matters and projects involved with supporting the teams that sell and build our products, including:
  • Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements to support sales, partnerships, and our purchase of software and services from vendors. Your primary focus will be on our service agreements, software licenses, data processing agreements, and NDAs for our prospective customers in EMEA (particularly in France, Italy, and Spain). We'll ask you to draw from the experience you've gained from supporting hundreds or thousands of commercial transactions to help define business terms and structure deals in an optimal way;
  • Advising on a variety of areas ranging from intellectual property, data privacy, data security, software licensing agreements, and go-to-market strategy;
  • Providing input on processes, policies, and playbooks to help scale the organization and make our team more effective and efficient;
  • Providing effective advice by staying up-to-date on relevant industry, commercial, open source, IP, privacy, employment, and other laws, regulations, and developments;
  • Developing the company's knowledge in areas of special interest, including intellectual property, data protection, financial services, healthcare, and other regulatory matters; and
  • Operating independently and providing practical, decisive guidance to our business teams that balances business objectives with legal risk, taking into account our company policies and practices negotiation positions.
You're a great fit for the role if have the following characteristics:
  • Fluent in English and French
  • Completion of a law degree from an accredited institution, and qualified to practice law as an in-house attorney;
  • 6+ years of post-qualification experience working on different kinds of commercial transactions (e.g., strategic alliance, SaaS, IP licensing, software licensing, product resale, and distribution, working with contractors, outsourcing, facilities, etc.), including with large enterprise companies, companies in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, etc.), government, and edu companies
  • Experience working in an in-house legal department, ideally in the tech sector.
  • Comfortable negotiating data processing agreements, including a working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA as they relate to commercial contracts;
  • Clean and concise drafting of documents, policies, Slack messages, emails, and other communications in a manner that is digestible for non-lawyers;
  • Experience negotiating with customers in regions across EMEA;
  • Understanding of cloud services, technology, and professional services contracts;
  • Knowledge of non-legal business processes gained in-house relating to sales operations and revenue recognition;
  • Experience managing workload on tight timelines with multiple competing demands; and
  • Exposure and experience negotiating artificial intelligence terms, including an understanding on AI models and the use of training data for building such models.

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