# Commercial Counsel **Company:** [Socket.dev](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-companies/socket-dev) **Location:** United States **Work mode:** Remote **Seniority:** Mid **Employment type:** Full Time **Salary:** USD 140K–180K/yr **Category:** Legal **Department:** G&A **Listed:** 2026-09-29 [View and apply on Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/socket-dev/commercial-counsel-c6061467-3e59-45cd-8407-f89fb0367768) ## What you'll do - Partner with sales early to shape deal terms - Own commercial contracts, drive faster turnaround - Negotiate directly with customers and counsel - Maintain risk positions, escalate exceptions to CEO - Leverage AI and automation for contract volume ## What you need - Licensed attorney with high-volume SaaS commercial agreements experience - Proven track record improving contract velocity with sales - Sound commercial risk judgement across liability, indemnities, IP, data protection - Operate with high agency and minimal direction - Experience at security, developer tools, or infrastructure company ## Job description **About Us** Socket helps devs and security teams ship faster by cutting out security busywork. Thousands of orgs use Socket to safely find, audit, and manage open source code. Our customers - from Anthropic to xAI, and Figma to Vercel - love Socket (just [check out their tweets](https://socket.dev/love) to see for yourself!) Founded by [**Feross Aboukhadijeh**](https://www.linkedin.com/in/feross/), a long-time open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised [**$**](https://socket.dev/blog/series-b)[**125M in funding**](https://socket.dev/blog/series-c) from top angels, operators, and security leaders. ### About the Role Socket is looking for a Commercial Counsel to substantially increase our commercial contracting outcomes. You'll join a lean legal team handling around 60 contracts a month, and you'll be the person sales pulls in to get deals done: fast, collaborative with customers, and always within Socket's risk positions. You'll operate with high agency and minimal direction, use AI and automation to multiply your output, and set a new benchmark for what commercial counsel looks like at Socket. ### What You'll Do - Partner closely with sales from early in the deal cycle, shaping terms before redlines arrive and helping the team win - Own a meaningful share of Socket's commercial contracts, driving faster turnaround and fewer deals stalled or escalated in legal - Negotiate directly with customers and their counsel in a way that's fair, responsive and relationship-building - Keep deals within Socket's approved risk positions, and escalate genuine exceptions to the CEO with a clear recommendation - Use Socket's existing contracting systems, AI tools and automation to handle more volume and reduce reliance on contractors - Find creative deal structures that unblock stuck negotiations ### What You'll Bring **Required:** - Licensed attorney with substantial experience working in a high-velocity environment working with SaaS or technology company contracts - Proven track record of delivering timely outcomes with excellent service and communication - Sound, commercially grounded risk judgement across liability, indemnities, IP, data protection and payment terms - Ability to operate with high agency and minimal direction - Clear, concise communicator who can explain legal trade-offs to sales and business colleagues. **Preferred:** - Experience at a security, developer tools or infrastructure company - Hands-on use of AI and automation tools to increase legal productivity - Experience negotiating directly with enterprise customers and their counsel **Our Interview Process** 1. Phone Screen with our Talent Team 2. Virtual f2f with the Hiring Manager 3. Presentation 4. Virtual f2f with a few members of the team 5. Final call with our Founder 6. References 7. Offer Hiring is a big decision on both sides. Read more about our [Hiring Philosophy](https://socket.dev/hiring-philosophy) and how we approach the process at Socket. **Benefits:** Our benefits are crafted to support you and your family, so you can take care of what matters most and thrive in and outside of work. We offer: - Market competitive salary bands - Meaningful equity program - Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family (99% coverage) - Flexible time-off, holidays, and winter shutdown to rest & recharge - Paid parental leave - Remote-first, with quarterly team off-sites **At Socket, we** 1. **Pursue Excellence:** We set ourselves apart by consistently delivering work of exceptional quality and distinction. 2. **Move with urgency and focus:** We prioritize swift, decisive action. 3. **Think rigorously:** We care about being right and it often takes reasoning from first principles to get there. We value alternative perspectives and have constructive discussions. 4. **Trust and amplify:** We overtrust, always assume good intent, and give specific feedback to help each other improve. 5. **Feel a strong sense of ownership:** We wear many hats and feel a strong sense of overall ownership of the company and we're non-territorial regarding our nominal domains. 6. **Are customer obsessed:** We relentlessly prioritize the needs of our customers, striving to exceed their expectations and delight them at every interaction. ## Other open roles at Socket.dev - [Technical Account Manager (EMEA)](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/socket-dev/technical-account-manager-emea-e3bf5aee-0ca3-423c-bee0-4e431c4f98bc) — United Kingdom - [Head of Customer Success](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/socket-dev/head-of-customer-success-2251ef1b-ef0f-439b-b0e6-b822199d19db) — United States - [Revenue Operations Manager](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/socket-dev/revenue-operations-manager-6b43fbbf-a826-4e11-9e05-0d2cb6e51714) — United States - [Manager, Sales Engineering](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/socket-dev/manager-sales-engineering-f2acca9e-3d32-486f-9111-0051f9ce0553) — United States - [Head of Product](https://zerogtalent.com/frontier-jobs/socket-dev/head-of-product-02c4af15-7ff5-4a4a-a961-cb1a557fb80a) — United States --- *Source: [Zero G Talent](https://zerogtalent.com), the job board for space, defense, AI, robotics and frontier-tech companies.*