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# Commercial Counsel at Socket

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![Socket](https://alljobboard.com/wp-content/plugins/wp-job-manager/assets/images/company.png)

 **Socket**

**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 to see for yourself!)

Founded by  **Feross Aboukhadijeh**  , a long-time open source maintainer with software downloaded over a billion times a month, Socket has raised  **$**   **125M in funding**  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 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.

**Source:** this listing was published by [Jobicy](https://jobicy.com/). [View the original posting and apply](https://jobicy.com/jobs/158127-commercial-counsel) — applications are handled there, not on this site.

To apply for this job please visit [jobicy.com](https://jobicy.com/jobs/158127-commercial-counsel).

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