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# Commercial Counsel at Brain Co.

- **Company:** Brain Co.
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-05-22
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brainco/ccc7753c-83a4-4961-ae50-ef866f5c7f96/application

**Skills:** Commercial contract negotiation, SaaS contract negotiation, AI contract negotiation, Enterprise software contract negotiation, Employment law, Real estate law, Regulatory compliance, AI regulatory frameworks, Data privacy, Security provisions, AI advisory experience, Data privacy advisory experience, Regulatory frameworks experience, DPAs, BAAs, Business development support, Strategic partnership support

> Brain Co. is seeking an experienced Commercial Counsel to serve as the first-in-line attorney, building legal foundations for a fast-growing AI startup. The role involves advising on employment, fundraising, real estate, and regulatory compliance while supporting strategic partnerships and product advisory initiatives.

## Job description

## OUR MISSION

Rebuild how the world works, to make institutions work better for the people they serve.

ABOUT BRAIN CO.

Brain Co. builds AI-native operating systems for large, regulated institutions. Each system is built for a specific industry, powered by agents that push real workflows forward. Underneath it all is Atlas, our proprietary platform that keeps customers in control, secure by design, and never locked into one model.

## WHY NOW

Brain Co. is entering its next phase of production deployments on a national scale with an elite team built from Palantir, Google, Meta, and Nvidia, and a growing footprint across government, insurance, health, and financial services.

Joining now means shaping both the company and a new category of applied AI. Every project here ships to production and is expected to create measurable customer value and impact.

You'll work alongside exceptional peers on some of the hardest problems in applied AI. It’s the kind of work you'll still be proud of in ten years from now.

## ABOUT THE ROLE

Brain Co. is hiring an exceptional, business-minded deal lawyer to be our first in-house attorney and build our Legal foundations. You will work alongside key partners throughout the company — including Sales, Business Development, Finance, and the executive team — to close first-of-kind strategic partnerships and high-value deals. You’ll work on a wide variety of deal types, many of which open new routes to market for Brain Co. across government, regulated industries, and major enterprises. You’ll also be the lawyer on major deals and projects that make an immediate impact on our fast-growing, dynamic business. Above all, you’ll help our business partners and executives solve problems and take down roadblocks.

We’re looking for an experienced lawyer with a strong work ethic, excellent analytical and communication skills, and incredibly solid fundamentals as a lawyer. The ideal candidate is creative and thinks outside-the-box, is a self-starter who takes ownership over initiatives, and is hands-on taking into consideration the lowest level of detail.

This role reports to the COO. Approximately 95% of the work is substantive commercial legal; the remaining ~5% is product advisory support for Brain Co.’s legal AI tools. There’s meaningful room to grow the scope and the function over time.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Employment: Advise on offer letters, contractor agreements, equity grants, employee policies, and terminations; coordinate with outside employment specialists as needed.
- Fundraising: Support review and negotiation of term sheets, SAFEs, and equity financing documents alongside company and investors’ counsel.
- Real Estate: Handle commercial lease review and negotiation; manage outside counsel where appropriate.
- Regulatory Awareness: Stay ahead of legal and regulatory developments affecting our business, including AI, govtech, data privacy, security, and permitting.
- Product Advisory: Serve as legal SME for the teams building Brain Co.’s AI-assisted legal and regulatory tools.

## WHO YOU ARE

- J.D. and active bar membership (California admission or eligibility to waive in strongly preferred).
- 5-8 years of legal experience, with a combination of large law firm and in-house experience at a tech company.
- Strong background negotiating complex commercial contracts, preferably in SaaS, AI, or enterprise software, including a track record of leading the negotiation of major deals with C-level execs.
- Strong communication skills, verbal and written; able to partner with both legal and non-legal stakeholders and translate complex legal issues into clear, actionable guidance.
- A proactive mindset and the ability to navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Sound judgement and a pragmatic approach — protective of the company’s interests without being an obstacle to getting deals done.

## BONUS POINTS FOR:

- Experience advising on AI, data privacy, or regulatory frameworks (DPAs, BAAs, security provisions).
- Experience supporting business development or strategic partnership teams.
- Background at or adjacent to regulated industries, government agencies, or policy institutions, given Brain Co.’s permitting and govtech focus.
- Comfortable and effective in front of customers.

## JOIN US

If you’re excited about helping modernize government and bringing frontier AI into the public sector, we’d love to hear from you.

## LOCATION

San Francisco preferred, but flexible on location. Regular travel to government partners and Brain Co. offices will be expected.

## COMPENSATION

Competitive compensation including salary, equity, and performance incentives.

## About Brain Co.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Brain Co. builds applied AI platforms and applications that automate complex, manual workflows for the world’s most important institutions, turning permitting, insurance, supply chain, and patient-care processes from months-long bottlenecks into minutes-long transactions.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States (also offices in the United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and Spain)
- **Founded**: 2024 (founding conversation in February 2024; public launch in 2025)
- **Founders**: Jared Kushner, Dan Ashton (CEO), Elad Gil, Dr. Luis Videgaray, Eric Wu, Mircea Pasoi, Revant Kapoor

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Artificial intelligence, government technology, healthcare, insurance, energy, hospitality, supply chain logistics
- **Target customers**: Global 2000 enterprises, federal/state governments, large healthcare systems, insurance carriers (B2B / Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “Empower the world’s most important institutions to create an abundant AI future” and “reinvent the broken processes that hold governments and institutions back.”

## Products & Services
- **Permitting**: Automates construction and other permitting workflows, cutting the process from months to minutes (claims 99% faster, $375M+ unlocked annually). SaaS / AI workflow platform.
- **Specialty Insurance**: Cuts complex underwriting and adjusting workflows from hours to minutes. AI-powered decision engine.
- **Supply Chain**: Optimizes end-to-end supply chain operations, delivering 30% lower cost, 99% reliability, and mitigating $100M+ in lost revenue. Integrated AI platform.
- **Patient Pathways**: Automates patient care-path management, returning patients to optimal care faster. Healthcare AI application.
- **General AI Platform**: An underlying platform that automatically incorporates advances in foundation models, enabling applications to stay current without traditional re-development.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed (private company; Series A at $30M raised)
- **Key Metric**: $30 million total funding (Series A, led by Elad Gil and Affinity Partners, announced October 2025)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Lead investors: Elad Gil (Gil Capital), Affinity Partners
  - Strategic partner: OpenAI
  - Angel investors include Ali Ghodsi (CEO Databricks), Andrej Karpathy, Aravind Srinivas (CEO Perplexity), Brian Armstrong (CEO Coinbase), Kevin Weil (CPO OpenAI), Reid Hoffman, Patrick Collison (CEO Stripe), Sarah Guo (Conviction), and many more.
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Headcount: 73 employees (LinkedIn, June 2026), monthly growth of +20.2%, quarterly job posting growth +47.4%
  - 10+ Global 2000 customers and multiple government engagements
  - $375M+ annual value unlocked in permitting alone; $100M+ supply chain revenue loss mitigated
  - Strategic partnership with OpenAI for model access and co-innovation
  - Engineering talent sourced from Stripe, Palantir, Amazon, Adobe, Roblox, and Alchemy

## Competitive Advantages
- **Outcome-based pricing**: Revenue model tied to client results, not software licenses – clients pay based on value delivered.
- **Production deployment, not pilots**: Every engagement begins with a value case; solutions go straight into production.
- **Domain-expertise embedded**: Subject matter experts in each vertical (government, insurance, healthcare) work alongside AI engineers to build around specific rules, regulations, and workflows.
- **Future-proof AI**: Applications automatically incorporate new capabilities from foundation models as they are released, avoiding obsolescence.
- **Enterprise-grade security**: SOC 2 and HIPAA-ready infrastructure with hallucination controls and guardrails.

## Strategic Focus
- Scale the platform across additional government and enterprise verticals (e.g., energy, hospitality)
- Deepen the partnership with OpenAI to rapidly leverage newest model capabilities
- Expand headcount (28 active job postings, especially in AI engineering, infrastructure, security, and deployment)
- Extend presence in the Middle East (Qatar, UAE) and Europe (UK, Spain)
- Continue building a new software-development paradigm where applications auto-update with AI advances

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “World-class talent built to deliver applied AI in production.” The team includes engineers from Tesla, NVIDIA, DeepMind, and top tech companies. Emphasis on solving hard, high-impact problems for the largest institutions.
- **Remote/hybrid/office**: Not explicitly stated, but headquarters in San Francisco with distributed teams in UAE, UK, and Spain. Likely a hybrid or office-first model given the nature of client engagements.
- **Notable perks or engineering culture**:
  - Outcome-driven work: every project tied to measurable value cases
  - Direct partnership with OpenAI and access to cutting-edge models
  - High-caliber co-founders (Kushner, Gil, Videgaray, Wu) and leadership (Marne Levine, former COO Instagram/Meta)
  - Rapidly growing (~73 people, +20% monthly headcount growth) – offers early-stage ownership
  - Roles span AI platform engineering, agentic systems, infrastructure, security, and deployment consulting

## Sources
1. [brain.co](https://brain.co/) – Main site overview
2. [brain.co](https://brain.co/blog/introducing-brain-co-9gk9a) – Introducing Brain Co. blog post (funding, founders, investors, customers)
3. [braincompany.ai](https://braincompany.ai/about) – About page (team, approach, security)
4. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/brainco-ai/jobs) – LinkedIn company page (headcount, growth, job postings, talent sources)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brainco/) – Careers page (open positions)

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