Junior Commercial Counsel

About EliseAI

At EliseAI were improving the industries that matter most: housing and healthcare. Everyone needs a place to live and access to quality healthcare yet both are often harder to secure than they should be.

By integrating AI agents deeply into existing workflows we make them more efficient reduce costs and improve the experience for everyone.

• Housing: We simplify how renters tour apartments sign leases submit maintenance requests and stay connected with their property teambringing everything they need for their home into one place.

• Healthcare: We make it easy to schedule appointments complete intake forms and we help patients communicate with providers so everyone can focus on health instead of paperwork.

With EliseAI organizations reduce manual work improve accessibility and deliver a seamless experience across essential services. We recently raised a $250 million Series E round led by Andreessen Horowitz to accelerate this mission.

About the role

This is a hands-on commercially focused role on our legal team. Youll partner day-to-day and support our Legal Counsels to draft negotiate and close a high volume of contracts and to support our deal desk. Its an ideal opportunity for an early-career attorney who wants to build deep commercial contracting expertise at a rapidly scaling SaaS company and grow alongside our legal function.

In this role you will be responsible for tracking and triaging a large number of contracts and requests at any given time. We are seeking a candidate who is equally comfortable prioritizing velocity or meticulous attention to detail as circumstances merit and who possesses a strong instinct for how to effectively balance these competing priorities.

Because this role centers on contracts and deal support were looking for someone with strong drafting instincts sound commercial judgment and the ability to get up to speed quickly on new agreement types and business needs.

If youre excited by the opportunity to contribute to the success of a growing company with a cutting-edge product wed love to hear from you!

Key Responsibilities

• Drafting reviewing and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements including SaaS customer agreements order forms partner and reseller agreements vendor and procurement contracts NDAs and data processing agreements

• Helping to establish contracting and organizational processes that will allow us to move with greater efficiency as we continue to scale

• Serving as a point of contact for our Sales and Partnerships teams gathering context so agreements can be drafted accurately and efficiently

• Supporting deal desk operations including managing contract intake review and approval workflows and helping deals move efficiently to signature

• Helping to improve contract templates playbooks fallback positions and negotiation guidelines to help the team scale

• Speaking with customers and counterparties to resolve questions and keep negotiations moving

• Taking on other ad hoc projects as needed

Move at rocket speed build something massive.

Were scaling fast solving real client problems with precision and ambition. Here you own your impact; full autonomy no micromanagement no fluff.

We hire the best expect the best and give you the masterclass of your career. Its hard its intense and its the most rewarding work youll ever do. If youre hungry driven and ready to build something massive climb aboard.

Requirements

• Qualifications

  • Juris Doctor (JD) degree (or foreign equivalent) with a strong record of academic achievement

  • Admitted to practice law in New York State with good standing or willing and able to waive into New York

  • 1-3 years of legal experience (at a law firm and/or in-house) involving commercial and transactional work

• Skills

  • Ability to effectively and clearly communicate with customers and other outside parties

  • Strong legal drafting skills

  • Strong legal researcherdemonstrated ability to reliably and thoroughly source data/information interpret such information and augment with necessary context and provide actionable recommendations or guidance to decision makers

  • Highly organized; rigorous attention to detail

  • Sufficient mathematical aptitude and financial literacy to effectively partner with Sales and Finance

• Mindset

  • Comfortable both owning deadlines with minimal supervision and taking instruction/working in close partnership with others

  • Enthusiastic can-do approach; excited to work hard at a fast-growing startup

  • Has a startup mindset strong sense of ownership and a proper balance of quality and sense of urgency

  • Willingness to work in person at NYC headquarters 4-5 days a week

Why join

Growth and impact. Its not often that you can get in on the ground floor of a funded (unicorn!) startup thats scaling. That means that instead of following a playbook youll be helping to write it. Every single day you will be challenged to identify how we can scale and execute on it. Youll learn what works when you succeed and what doesnt when you fail. Either way the rest of the team will be here to support you.

Benefits

In addition to the growth and impact youll have at EliseAI we offer competitive salaries along with the following benefits:

• Equity in the company

• Medical Dental and Vision premiums covered at 100%

• Fully paid parental leave

• Commuter benefits

• 401k benefits

• Fitness & home services stipend to cover part of your expenses so you can focus on what matters

• A collaborative in-office environment with an open floor plan fully stocked kitchen and all meals covered in the office

• Unlimited vacation and paid holidays

• Well cover relocation packages and make the move exciting not painful!

Well cover relocation packages from outside of the Greater NYC metro area - well make the move exciting not painful.

Job Compensation Range

The salary range for this role is $160000 - $175000. EliseAI offers a competitive total rewards package which includes base salary equity and a comprehensive benefits & perks package. Exact compensation inclusive of salary and any bonuses is determined based on a number of factors including experience and skill level location and qualifications which are assessed during the hiring process.

EliseAI provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetic information protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law.

Employment with EliseAI is on an at-will basis meaning that either the employee or the company may terminate the employment relationship at any time with or without cause or notice subject to applicable law.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We will also consider qualified applicants in accordance with the Austin Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance.

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Required Experience:

Junior IC