Counsel, Commercial

Location: Remote - India

About Turing

Based in Palo Alto, California, Turing is the world’s first AI-powered tech services company. It has reimagined tech services from the ground up with AI by offering AI-vetted and matched talent, AI-accelerated development, and access to AI transformation experts who have built many of the most iconic Silicon Valley companies.

Founded in 2018, the company has experienced tremendous growth with three million global developers on its Talent Cloud and 900+ clients. Turing has received numerous awards, including Forbes’s 2022 “One of America’s Best Startup Employers,” being ranked #1 in The Information’s 2021 Annual List of most promising B2B Companies and Fast Company’s “Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.”

The company’s leadership team comprises both AI technologists from leading organizations including Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, Stanford, Caltech, MIT as well as tech consulting veterans from Accenture, Cognizant, Capgemini, McKinsey, Bain, and more.

Turing is seeking a highly motivated and business-minded Commercial Counsel to join our growing legal team. As a key member of Turing Legal, you will report to the Head of Commercial Legal to advise on and negotiate an array of commercial deals. The ideal candidate has some experience in a fast-paced tech environment drafting and negotiating complex deals in evolving areas of technology. The successful candidate is able to juggle and shift multiple competing priorities while maintaining a high level of client satisfaction.

Responsibilities:

• Draft and negotiate a variety of legal agreements ranging from MSAs and SOWs to NDAs and vendor procurement agreements.
• Assist senior legal members with various deals, projects, templates, or process improvements.
• Assist with other legal matters on an as-needed basis, including advising internal teams on legal and regulatory compliance matters.
• Identify areas and opportunities for improvement, risk mitigation, and efficiencies within the commercial legal templates and standard operating processes and subsequently assist in implementing appropriate updates and changes.
• Advise our business teams on relevant legal issues and risks, approval processes, and company policies and procedures.

Requirements:

• Ability to support US business hours.
• 2+ years of commercial legal experience, in-house at a tech company.
• Active license or membership in good standing to practice law in compliance with local law.
• Excellent communication, writing, and persuasion skills.
• Self-starter with strong organization and project management skills.
• Pragmatic, creative legal thinker with excellent judgment and a willingness to take on new responsibilities and challenges.
• Ability to think quickly on your feet, convey grace under pressure, and simultaneously manage workloads, multiple client demands, and shifting priorities.
• Ability to operate autonomously while being a team player who brings a positive attitude to the workplace.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced, rapidly-evolving workplace.
• Good sense of humor, low ego, disdain for drama, curiosity, and desire to get things done.

• Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
• Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta, Google, LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible working hours
• Full-time remote opportunity

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Turing we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace and celebrate authenticity, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.