Commercial Counsel (DACH)

Welcome to the video first world!

From your everyday PowerPoint presentations to Hollywood movies, AI will transform the way we create and consume content. Today, people want to watch and listen, not read — both at home and at work. If you’re reading this and nodding, check out our brand video.

Despite the clear preference for video, communication and knowledge sharing in the business environment are still dominated by text, largely because high-quality video production remains complex and challenging to scale—until now….

Meet Synthesia

We're on a mission to make video easy for everyone. Born in an AI lab, our AI video communications platform simplifies the entire video production process, making it easy for everyone, regardless of skill level, to create, collaborate, and share high-quality videos. Whether it's for delivering essential training to employees and customers or marketing products and services, Synthesia enables large organizations to communicate and share knowledge through video quickly and efficiently. We’re trusted by leading brands such as Heineken, Zoom, Xerox, McDonald’s and more. Read stories from happy customers and what 1,200+ people say on G2.

In 2023, we were one of 7 European companies to reach unicorn status. In February 2024, G2 named us as the fastest growing company in the world. We’ve raised over $150M in funding from top-tier investors, including Accel, Nvidia, Kleiner Perkins, Google and top founders and operators including Stripe, Datadog, Miro, Webflow, and Facebook.

About the role

Synthesia is looking for a Commercial Counsel to work closely with our Go to Market organisation (Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, Finance, Operations) as we continue to scale rapidly in Europe (specifically in DACH). Using your expensive experience, you will help us define business terms and structure deals in an optimal way. 

Our legal team is highly collaborative and works as a unit; bringing bold ideas to the table and collaborating closely. This role will report to the Head of Commercial Legal in the US, and be responsible for various legal-related matters and projects involved with supporting the teams that sell and build our products. 

What you will be doing

• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a variety of commercial agreements to support sales, partnerships, and our purchase of software and services from vendors. Your primary focus will be on our service agreements, software licenses, data processing agreements, and NDAs. 
• Advising on a variety of areas ranging from intellectual property, data privacy, data security, software licensing agreements, and go-to-market strategy.
• Providing input on processes, policies, and playbooks to help scale the organization and make our team more effective and efficient.
• Providing effective advice by staying up-to-date on relevant industry, commercial, open source, IP, privacy, employment, and other laws, regulations, and developments.
• Developing the company’s knowledge in areas of special interest, including intellectual property, data protection, financial services, healthcare, and other regulatory matters.
• Operating independently and providing practical, decisive guidance to our business teams that balances business objectives with legal risk, taking into account our company policies and negotiation positions.

Requirements 

• Completion of a law degree from an accredited institution, and qualified to practice law as an in-house attorney.
• 4+ years of post-qualification experience working on different kinds of commercial transactions (e.g., strategic alliance, SaaS, IP licensing, software licensing, product resale, and distribution, working with contractors, outsourcing, facilities, etc.), including with large enterprise companies, companies in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, etc.), government, and edu companies.
• Experience working in an in-house legal department, ideally in the tech sector.
• Comfortable negotiating data processing agreements, including a working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA as they relate to commercial contracts.
• Clean and concise drafting of documents, policies, Slack messages, emails, and other communications in a manner that is digestible for non-lawyers.
• Experience negotiating with customers in regions across EMEA.
• Understanding of cloud services, technology, and professional services contracts.
• Knowledge of non-legal business processes gained in-house relating to sales operations and revenue recognition.
• Experience managing workload on tight timelines with multiple competing demands.

Culture 

At Synthesia we’re passionate about building, not talking, planning or politicising. We strive to hire the smartest, kindest and most unrelenting people and let them do their best work without distractions. Our work principles serve as our charter for how we make decisions, give feedback and structure our work to empower everyone to go as fast as possible. You can find out more about these principles here.

We'd be particularly excited if...

• You have an understanding/experience on the use of training data for building AI models.

Benefits

You will be compensated well with a competitive base salary + stock options. 

Flexible role based either remotely or hybrid from one of our offices in London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Zurich, New York, or Munich. 

You get 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays.

You will join an established company culture with regular socials and company retreats.

You get a paid parental leave and we contribute to your pension plan. 

You can participate in a generous referral scheme. 

Huge opportunity for a career defining role as we go from a series C scale-up with strong PMF to the next phase of growth.