Senior Commercial Counsel

Join Array Labs as our first internal legal hire. In this role, you will partner with our business development and sales teams to structure and close agreements across various business lines, including imagery and data licensing, radar hardware sales, and government contracting. You will act as a strategic advisor, helping to solve complex business problems while appropriately calibrating risk. Additionally, you will build out our foundational legal infrastructure and serve as the central liaison for our specialized outside counsel.

• Partner directly with business development and sales teams to structure and close agreements across diverse business lines, including imagery and data licensing, radar hardware/payload sales, and government contracting.
• Build out foundational legal infrastructure, draft standard templates, establish scalable contracting processes, and work with capture teams to develop negotiation playbooks.
• Serve as the central liaison for specialized outside counsel, ensuring alignment with the company's operational priorities and broader business strategy.
• A strong background in technology agreements, data and software licensing, and hardware sales, with demonstrated experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts. Experience with government contracting is highly desirable
• Comfortable building a legal function from the ground up, with a track record of translating ad-hoc legal work into repeatable, scalable processes and templates, including doing the foundational work required of a startup environment
• 8+ years of relevant legal experience, including at least one in-house counsel role where you have operated as an embedded business partner
• J.D. from an accredited law school and an active membership in good standing with the California State Bar
• Demonstrated business acumen to distinguish between theoretical legal risk and actual commercial exposure. You have a track record of offering constructive solutions that find a way to “yes” without compromising critical legal protections
• Demonstrated experience structuring and negotiating complex hardware component, manufacturing, and supply chain agreements, with an understanding of the legal and operational interdependencies across the full commercial lifecycle
• Familiarity with the regulatory and IP landscape governing hardware development, with experience directing external counsel on IP and compliance matters ensuring legal strategy remains aligned with operational realities
• Prior legal experience in aerospace, satellite, or Earth observation, with a particular emphasis on commercializing geospatial data or Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) products
• Deep understanding of the Legal and Business dynamic, with experience establishing clear roles and responsibilities during negotiations to ensure legal strategy is fully integrated with and supportive of business execution
• Understands the critical dynamic between Legal and Business. Takes a collaborative approach to defining clear roles and responsibilities with the business team, presenting a unified front during negotiations and ensuring legal strategy seamlessly supports business execution
• Experience operating within a high-growth, venture-backed environment, including supporting corporate governance and venture financing rounds in close coordination with outside corporate counsel
• Practical experience navigating complex defense or intelligence community procurements, including demonstrated familiarity with FAR/DFARS requirements
• Experience leveraging modern legal technology, including contract lifecycle management (CLM) systems and AI-driven drafting and review tools, to drive efficiency, automation, and scale the legal function without immediately adding headcount