Head of Commercial Legal

About this role

## Location

San Francisco

## Employment Type

Full time

## Department

Legal

## Compensation

• $250K – $300K • Offers Equity

fal is the generative media ecosystem powering the next generation of AI products. We build the infrastructure, tools, and model access that teams need to move from idea to production, and do it at scale without compromise. For developers and enterprises, fal is the foundation that makes generative media not just possible, but practical: a unified platform where high-performance inference, orchestration, and observability come together to unlock new categories of AI-native products.

As generative media reshapes industries across a market projected to grow by hundreds of billions over the next decade, fal is becoming the ecosystem that ambitious teams build on.

### About the role

fal is hiring its Head of Commercial Legal — the first dedicated commercial hire on our legal team. You'll own the commercial legal function end-to-end as an individual contributor: drafting and negotiating the deals that power our business, and building the templates, playbooks, and processes from the ground up. This is a builder's role for someone who wants the ownership of a founding hire without stepping into a department-management seat.

### What you'll do

• Draft and negotiate complex commercial transactions on both buy-side and sell-side: enterprise customer agreements, SaaS and API licensing, IP and model/content licensing, and data center/capacity and hyperscaler/infrastructure partnerships
• Build our commercial legal foundation from scratch — templates, playbooks, contract processes, and CLM
• Partner directly with GTM, sales, and leadership to move deals quickly while managing risk
• Advise on privacy and related matters as the business scales

### What we're looking for

• **8+ years** of relevant commercial legal experience
• A **top-tier law firm foundation** combined with **in-house experience** at a technology...