Senior Commercial Counsel

About this role

Human Interest is on a mission to ensure that people in all lines of work have access to retirement benefits.

More than half of all working Americans are not saving enough for their future. Too often, it’s because they are employed by a company that doesn’t offer a retirement plan. Human Interest is changing that by making it affordable and accessible for small and medium-sized businesses to offer employees a path to financial independence through retirement savings.

We’re a high-growth fintech company changing the retirement industry. We are backed by a number of investors. This includes funding from Marshall Wace and Baillie Gifford, as well as top investors such as BlackRock, TPG (The Rise Fund), SoftBank, Glynn Capital, NewView Capital, USVP, Wing, Uncork, and more.

About the role

In this role, you'll own and elevate Human Interest's commercial legal function. We're looking for a senior commercial attorney to take ownership and set the standard for how commercial legal work gets done here. We work as one team where everyone does their part, so you'll own commercial and bring genuine interest in stretching into other areas of the team's work. We change fast, so you'll keep the function agile and moving as the business evolves.

You'll report to the Assistant General Counsel, Corporate & Commercial, bringing seasoned commercial judgment and translating legal and risk issues into guidance the business can act on with confidence. As a senior member of the team, you'll lead our highest-stakes negotiations, set the standard for what excellent commercial legal work looks like, and mentor the colleagues who work alongside you. There's real room to grow as the team and the company continue to scale.

Our legal team runs on modern AI tooling, and this role is expected to push it further. Fluency with AI in your day-to-day legal work, and the instinct to build workflows that make the whole function faster, are essential.

What you get to do every day

Your work centers on helping the business get deals done - and building the infrastructure that lets it move faster. Day to day, you will:

• Lead commercial contracting end to end: Structure, draft, and negotiate the full range of agreements that keep the business moving, including customer contracts, partnerships (including white-label), vendor and SaaS agreements, and NDAs. You take the lead on our most complex, highest-stakes deals and the sophisticated counterparties behind them, with a Contracts Manager handling high-volume and routine work.

• Own the data and privacy terms in the deal: Negotiate DPAs and the data rights, security, and confidentiality provisions that sit at the center of a financial-data business, and know when a financial-privacy or information-security question needs a specialist alongside you.

• Handle the AI terms: Negotiate the AI and data use provisions that increasingly show up in both outbound and inbound contracts, and turn them into positions the business understands.

• Be the trusted advisor to the business: Be the responsive, go-to resource that gives clear, practical guidance and gets deals done, whether you're talking to a sales rep or a counterparty's general counsel.

• Spot issues and pull in the right experts: Recognize when a deal raises questions beyond commercial, such as ERISA and fiduciary, investment adviser, securities, employment, consumer marketing, or product, and bring in the right expert at the right time while keeping ownership and driving the deal to close.

• Make the function faster and more scalable: Set and execute the strategy for how the function scales, including leading our CLM implementation, building the templates, playbooks, and self-service that let the business move quickly, and folding AI and other tools into the workflow.

• Raise the legal IQ of the business: Equip go-to-market, procurement, and other teams to handle routine matters themselves, and mentor the Contracts Manager and other colleagues as the function grows.

• Support new and expanding products: Partner with Product Counsel to advise on the commercial side and build out terms of…