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Corporate Counsel

Hyperbolic

Skills

Required

  • usage-based pricing
  • SLAs
  • indemnities
  • termination economics

Preferred

  • GPU cloud

Hyperbolic, an AI infrastructure business, as a Corporate Counsel. In this high-impact role, you will work directly with the founders and leadership team on important transactions, own agreements related to GPU capacity, strategic partnerships, and customer service. You will also navigate regulatory and compliance landscapes, lead the company's response to disputes and litigation, and advise on corporate governance and fundraising. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of relevant legal experience, significant experience with complex infrastructure agreements, and a strong understanding of commercial technology transactions.

Responsibilities

  • Draft, review, and negotiate Master Service Agreements (MSAs) with neocloud providers and customers, ensuring alignment of terms across various aspects.
  • Design and implement a wide range of innovative commercial agreements, including creative deal structures with neoclouds, channel partners, and technology providers.
  • Lead the company’s response to disputes, litigation, and regulatory inquiries, providing clear and decisive counsel under pressure.
  • Able to compare interconnected supplier and customer agreements, identify mismatched obligations, and develop practical risk mitigations

Requirements

  • 5+ years of relevant legal experience, including commercial technology transactions and meaningful in-house experience
  • Significant experience drafting and negotiating complex infrastructure, cloud, or enterprise customer MSAs
  • J.D. and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. state bar
  • Commercial, collaborative, and comfortable making sound decisions in a fast-moving environment
  • Strong understanding of committed capacity, usage-based pricing, SLAs, security obligations, indemnities, liability caps, and termination economics

Preferred

  • Experience at a neocloud, GPU cloud, public-cloud provider, data-center operator, high-performance computing company, or infrastructure marketplace
  • Experience with channel, reseller, marketplace, referral, capacity-sharing, or other non-standard commercial arrangements
  • Experience supporting an early-stage company across commercial, corporate, regulatory, and product matters