Commercial Counsel

cognition· General & Administrative
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📍 New York CityFullTime

About this role

We are an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents.

We're the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer, and Windsurf, the AI-native IDE. Together, they represent our vision for collaborative AI teammates that enable engineers to focus on more interesting problems and empower teams to strive for more ambitious goals.

Our team is small and talent-dense. Among our founding team, we have world-class competitive programmers, former founders, and leaders from companies at the cutting edge of AI including Scale AI, Palantir, Cursor, Waymo, Tesla, Lunchclub, Modal, Google DeepMind, and Nuro.

Building Devin and Windsurf is just the first step—our hardest challenges still lie ahead. If you’re excited to solve some of the world’s biggest problems and build AI that can reason on real-world tasks, apply to join us.

About the Role

As Commercial Counsel for US, you will sit at the centre of a fast-moving commercial legal function, managing a high-volume workflow of complex negotiations across AI SaaS licensing, marketing, and partnership agreements. You will work with enterprise-level deals, balancing risk and reward with pragmatism and speed, and ensuring closures that are both fair and commercially sound.

This role carries real weight. You will serve as the connective tissue between the GTM team and technical and operational teams, translating contractual commitments into guidance that non-legal stakeholders can act on.

Beyond day-to-day deal work, you will play a meaningful part in the company's growth, working cross-functionally to establish and grow contract compliance mechanisms. If you want a legal role with genuine strategic scope, this is it.

In this role you will:

  • Focus on Enterprise (US) deals and contract work

  • Manage a high-volume workflow, redlining and negotiating key legal documents, including Licensing, SaaS agreements, and NDAs

  • Provide crucial legal guidance, balancing risk/reward, with an understanding of national and international requirements and parlaying that to the technical and operational team

  • Engage with enterprise-level counsel, ensuring swift and fair deal closures

Ideally you have:

  • 7+ years experience drafting and negotiating commercial contracts

  • Experience with high-velocity, high-growth tech company preferred

  • Diverse body of work, including inbound and outbound contracts

Equal Opportunity

Cognition is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process - please let us know if you need any.

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This Commercial Counsel role at cognition is based in New York City. The position is listed as on-site or hybrid. Check the full job description or apply directly to confirm the work arrangement.
Is the Commercial Counsel role at cognition full-time or part-time?
This is listed as a FullTime position. It is posted as a Commercial Counsel role in the General & Administrative department at cognition.
Which team or department does the Commercial Counsel at cognition belong to?
This Commercial Counsel position is part of the General & Administrative department at cognition. See the full job description for more information about the team structure and responsibilities.
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When was the Commercial Counsel job at cognition posted?
This Commercial Counsel position at cognition was posted on Mar 31, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
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