Senior Commercial Counsel
Alphasense
About the role
About AlphaSense:
The world’s most sophisticated companies rely on AlphaSense to remove uncertainty from decision-making. With market intelligence and search built on proven AI, AlphaSense delivers insights that matter from content you can trust. Our universe of public and private content includes equity research, company filings, event transcripts, expert calls, news, trade journals, and clients’ own research content.
The acquisition of Tegus by AlphaSense in 2024 advances our shared mission to empower professionals to make smarter decisions through AI-driven market intelligence. Together, AlphaSense and Tegus will accelerate growth, innovation, and content expansion, with complementary product and content capabilities that enable users to unearth even more comprehensive insights from thousands of content sets. Our platform is trusted by over 6,000 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Founded in 2011, AlphaSense is headquartered in New York City with more than 2,000 employees across the globe and offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, India, Singapore, Canada, and Ireland. Come join us!
About the Team:
AlphaSense has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Commercial Counsel to join our legal team. Legal is a critical function in supporting the company’s fast-paced, high-growth environment and acts as a true business partner to all of our leaders across the organization. We work hand-in-hand with cross-functional teams to provide solutions to enable and empower the company to achieve substantial targets while managing risk and protecting our business.
About the Role:
This role can either be based in our New York, New York headquarters or remote in the USA, with a preference for the Eastern Time zone. Regardless of location, Eastern Time working hours are a minimum requirement.
The Senior Commercial Counsel is primarily responsible for leading the drafting, reviewing, and negotiating revenue-generating contracts with our customers. The Senior Commercial Counsel will partner with all levels and functions of the business, including Sales, Information Security, Product, and Content, among others, to help AlphaSense achieve its goals. This role is essential to our growth and will have an immediate impact in our dynamic, fast-paced culture.
What You’ll Do:
Take ownership of drafting, reviewing, and negotiating the company’s commercial contracts supporting the sales organization.
Help create and enhance playbooks to establish company parameters and scale the legal function as the company grows.
Provide legal and strategic business advice to ensure agreements are consistent with playbooks, internal policies, and processes.
Remain informed of the shifting legal landscape relating to applicable laws, regulations, and industry guidance that impact commercial agreements.
Who You Are:
J.D. from a top law school and admitted to practice law in at least one jurisdiction.
Minimum of 5 years’ experience drafting, reviewing, and n