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title: 'Commercial Legal Counsel at incident.io'
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# Commercial Legal Counsel at incident.io

- **Company:** incident.io
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $150k–$200k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-10-28
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-28
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/incident/6a99dfaa-b8f0-4eb3-ad88-2904d78d0cfa

## Job description

A little about us [incident.io](http://incident.io) is the AI software reliability platform trusted by engineering teams at Netflix, Etsy, and 2,000+ companies who can't afford downtime. The stakes are real, the talent is insane, and somehow it's a genuinely lovely place to work. We all pull our weight, go the extra mile, and put in the bit of magic most companies don't have time for, all while having fun and never taking ourselves too seriously. We've raised $100+ million from Index Ventures, Insight Partners, and Point Nine, and we're growing fast. There's never been a better time to join.

## The role in one line

Be a trusted partner to our US teams, helping us close deals faster, navigate complex legal challenges, and build a legal function that scales with the business!

What that looks like day to day The legal team partners with every team at [incident.io](http://incident.io), from Sales and Marketing to Engineering and Finance. As the fifth member of our legal team, you'll join our existing US commercial counsel in San Francisco. Together, you'll help develop localized processes and shape a world-class legal function while enabling the business to scale at pace. This role is ideal for a commercially minded lawyer with a strong background in SaaS commercial contracts and data protection who thrives on autonomy and high-impact work.

- Trusted Advisor: Act as a strategic partner to our US GTM teams, providing pragmatic, high-velocity advice to manage risk and unblock complex commercial challenges.
- Deal Lead: Own the drafting, review, and negotiation of a wide range of commercial contracts (primarily SaaS agreements), balancing robust legal safeguarding with the need for commercial momentum.
- Privacy Specialist: Navigate US and international data protection and privacy issues, including negotiating DPAs and advising on associated business risks.
- Function Builder: Partner with the legal team to create "self-serve" legal tools, standard forms, and US-specific templates that empower the business to move faster.
- US Legal Expert: Serve as an internal subject matter expert on US legal nuances, including providing foundational guidance on US employment matters as we scale our local headcount.

## Who you are

- Licensed Attorney: You are a US licensed attorney, with relevant experience, ideally gained in-house at a fast-paced SaaS or startup environment.
- Negotiation: You have excellent drafting and communication skills, with a proven ability to transform complex legal concepts into clear, actionable commercial advice.
- Privacy: You are comfortable dealing with data protection and privacy issues and understand their impact on the sales cycle.
- High Autonomy: You thrive when working independently, while remaining a proactive collaborator with the wider legal team.
- Comfort in Ambiguity: You enjoy the "builder" phase of a company. You are comfortable navigating a degree of ambiguity and can pivot quickly when new information or priorities are introduced.

Supporting you We work hard and we think life outside work matters just as much. Our benefits pack is built to support both.

- Market-leading private medical insurance. The proper kind, so you're never weighing up your health against a bill.
- Competitive PTO. Showing up at your best requires switching off, and we make sure you have time to do that.
- First Friday of every month off. Yes, seriously.
- Enhanced 401k. We put real money in, because future-you deserves better than an afterthought.
- Meaningful equity. We're rapidly scaling, and everyone who helps shape the outcome should share in it.
- Unlimited AI spend. For everyone, not just engineers. We're all-in on AI across the company, and we expect you to be too.
- Generous parental leave. The early days with a new baby matter more than anything we're doing here, and we want you to be present for them.
- Two budgets that have your back. $1000 to invest in your setup, $500 a year to invest in yourself.

## About incident.io

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: incident.io provides an all-in-one AI-powered incident management platform that helps fast-moving teams respond to outages, coordinate on-call, and keep customers informed.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B, raised $62M at ~$400M valuation)
- **Headquarters**: London, UK (with offices in San Francisco and New York)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Stephen Whitworth (CEO), Pete Hamilton (CTO), Chris Evans (CPO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Incident management / IT operations / DevOps
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily mid-market to enterprise (organisations of 200+ users), including engineering, product, support, and increasingly security teams
- **Mission**: “Move fast when you break things” — empower teams to respond quickly, coordinate clearly, and get better each time something breaks

## Products & Services
- **Response**: End-to-end incident lifecycle management, deeply integrated with Slack and Microsoft Teams, with AI-powered workflows to accelerate resolution
- **On-call**: Modern on-call scheduling with noise reduction, designed for humans — competes directly with PagerDuty (used by 70% of customers)
- **Status Pages**: Automated, transparent status updates to keep customers informed during incidents
- **Investigations**: AI-driven root cause analysis that surfaces failing PRs and suggests fixes, often before the responder has opened their laptop
- **AI Copilot**: Summarises incident calls, queries monitoring tools like Datadog, and generates action items

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: ~$400 million (Series B, April 2025) — [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/incident-io-raises-62m-at-a-400m-valuation-to-help-it-teams-move-fast-when-things-break/)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $96M; annual revenue not disclosed, but customer base tripled in the last 12 months
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Insight Partners (Series B lead), Index Ventures, Point Nine Capital
- **Growth Signals**: 190 employees across London, SF, and NY; over 1,000 customers including Netflix, Airbnb, Block, Linear, Ramp, and Etsy; 250,000 incidents managed since founding; 75% of new customers are U.S.-based — [incident.io/careers](https://incident.io/careers), [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/incident-io-raises-62m-at-a-400m-valuation-to-help-it-teams-move-fast-when-things-break/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **All-in-one platform**: Combines on-call, response, status pages, and AI investigation — reducing tool fragmentation that plagues incident management
- **AI-first, pragmatically**: Uses AI where it genuinely adds value (investigation, summarisation, root cause analysis) rather than for hype — [incident.io/blog/incident-io-behind-the-curtain](https://incident.io/blog/incident-io-behind-the-curtain)
- **Office-first culture**: High-bandwidth collaboration and pace, attracting talent who thrive in an in-person environment
- **PagerDuty Rescue Program**: Aggressive migration offering (white-glove migration, contract buyout) to capture market share — [incident.io](https://incident.io/)
- **Strong product-led growth**: Engineers love the product, driving organic adoption

## Strategic Focus
- Deepen AI capabilities for incident investigation and remediation (moving toward autonomous fixes)
- Expand into security incident response (already seeing adoption from security teams)
- Grow U.S. market presence through sales and marketing
- Continue to build out the platform to cover the full incident lifecycle

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: High trust, high standards, fast execution. Values: *Make it magic*, *Find a way*, *Raise the pace*, *Trust by default*, *Win together* — [incident.io/careers](https://incident.io/careers)
- **Work environment**: Office-first in London (4–5 days/week expected, with occasional remote weeks); offices in SF and NY. Not a remote-first company — [incident.io/blog/incident-io-behind-the-curtain](https://incident.io/blog/incident-io-behind-the-curtain)
- **Engineering culture**: 1–3 week projects, broad product surface area, written alignment (scopes, design docs, thorough commit messages), AI used where it genuinely helps
- **Growth**: Well-funded, fast-growing, strong market position — career-defining problems and a wildly talented team
- **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but emphasis on sane work-life balance, autonomy, and working on a product customers genuinely love

## Sources
1. [incident.io/careers](https://incident.io/careers)
2. [incident.io](https://incident.io/)
3. [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/incident-io)
4. [incident.io/blog/incident-io-behind-the-curtain](https://incident.io/blog/incident-io-behind-the-curtain)
5. [TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/10/incident-io-raises-62m-at-a-400m-valuation-to-help-it-teams-move-fast-when-things-break/)

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