Commercial & Product Counsel

Join Givebutter, a leading fundraising platform for nonprofits, as a Commercial & Product Counsel. In this high-ownership role, you will manage the commercial contracting function, counsel product teams on legal risk, negotiate deals, and build the contracting infrastructure. You will have the autonomy to run the contracting motion end-to-end and use modern tools, including AI-powered contract review. This is an opportunity to be a business partner who happens to have a law degree and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

• Assumer la responsabilité de la fonction de contractualisation commerciale de Givebutter, en négociant et en finalisant les contrats avec les fournisseurs et les clients.
• Développer et maintenir des modèles, des manuels et des outils d'auto-service qui permettent aux équipes opérationnelles et commerciales d'agir plus rapidement.
• Conseiller les équipes produit sur les risques juridiques avant le lancement des fonctionnalités, en identifiant les problèmes juridiques dans les spécifications du produit.
• Have built contracting processes from scratch: templates, playbooks, fallback language, approval workflows, self-serve tools. You've done it before, and you can stand it up overnight if needed
• Communicate clearly and directly with non-legal stakeholders: sales, PDE, finance, operations, people, and leadership
• Understand that reputation is everything for a platform that nonprofits trust with their fundraising, and you factor that into every decision
• Can operate independently at high speed: you don't need to be told what to do next, you manage your own queue, and you exercise sound judgment about when to escalate
• Have strong product counseling skills: you can spot the legal issue in a product spec, explain the risk in plain language, and propose a path forward that doesn't kill the feature
• Have deep commercial contracting experience: you've negotiated hundreds of agreements across SaaS, vendor, customer, and data processing contexts, and you can do it quickly without sacrificing quality
• Have hands-on experience with AI tools for legal work: you've used AI-powered contract review, AI agents, or agentic workflows in practice (not just read about them), and you have opinions about what works
• High-volume commercial contracting execution
• Product counseling in a high growth, tech environment
• Applied use of legal technology and AI tools
• 5–7 years of legal experience, with meaningful time spent in-house at a growth-stage fintech company (experience at a payments company or fundraising platform strongly preferred)
• A J.D. and active bar membership in at least one US jurisdiction
• Contracting systems & infrastructure buildout