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title: 'Counsel, Commercial at Snorkel AI'
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# Counsel, Commercial at Snorkel AI

- **Company:** Snorkel AI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Compensation:** $125k–$185k
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-09-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai/jobs/6193309004

## Job description

## About Snorkel

Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. We combine technology with research-driven AI data development to create datasets, benchmarks, evals, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises to move from better data to better outcomes.

Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler!

Counsel, Commercial

## What You’ll Do

Snorkel AI is looking for a Counsel, Commercial to join our growing Legal team, reporting to Snorkel’s Associate General Counsel, Commercial. This is a key role across Snorkel’s commercial contracting function, including vendor agreements and customer agreements.

You will serve as a trusted legal partner to business teams across the company, drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts while helping build scalable processes. You’ll work closely with cross-functional stakeholders, combining strong commercial legal skills with the hands-on, execution-oriented approach required in a fast-growing technology company.

This hybrid role is based in San Francisco or New York City.

## Responsibilities

- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts, including vendor and customer agreements, NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, order forms, and other commercial arrangements.
- Serve as a trusted legal partner to cross-functional teams on commercial contracts.
- Manage a high volume of contracts and competing priorities, ensuring timely execution and alignment with business objectives.
- Review and negotiate commercial agreement efficiently and identity when issues require escalation or cross-functional input.
- Contribute to the development and continuous improvement of contract templates, playbooks, and negotiation guidelines to drive consistency and efficiency across the commercial contracting process.
- Manage contract workflows and lifecycle processes, including intake, routing, approval, execution, and archival.
- Support the Associate General Counsel, Commercial on ad hoc legal projects and other matters as needed.

## Who You Are

## Minimum Qualifications

- J.D. and active membership in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
- 2–5 years of relevant commercial or transactional legal experience in-house.
- Strong experience drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts, including vendor agreements, customer agreements, NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, and order forms.
- Excellent drafting, negotiation, and communication skills, with the ability to explain complex legal concepts clearly to business stakeholders.
- Experience with Ironclad or similar contract lifecycle management (CLM) platforms.
- Comfort with using AI workflows and operating in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong business judgment and the ability to balance legal risk with business objectives in a fast-moving environment.
- Ability to manage a high volume of contracts and competing priorities in a fast-moving environment.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience at a technology, AI company, or at a high-growth startup.
- Experience helping build or improve contracting workflows, templates, or vendor review processes.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where priorities evolve and the Legal team is expected to be both strategic and highly execution-oriented.

Actual compensation will be determined based on factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and geographic location.

Salary range(s) for this role $125,000—$185,000 USD

Be Your Best at Snorkel

Joining Snorkel AI means becoming part of a company that has market proven solutions, robust funding, and is scaling rapidly—offering a unique combination of stability and the excitement of high growth. As a member of our team, you’ll have meaningful opportunities to shape priorities and initiatives, influence key strategic decisions, and directly impact our ongoing success. Whether you’re looking to deepen your technical expertise, explore leadership opportunities, or learn new skills across multiple functions, you’re fully supported in building your career in an environment designed for growth, learning, and shared success.

Snorkel AI is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Snorkel AI embraces diversity and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Snorkel AI prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, performance, merit, and business need.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

## About Snorkel AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: The frontier AI data lab helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier models and agentic AI.
- **Entity Type**: Private (multiple funding rounds; latest venture round in 2024; total funding $250.2M)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2019
- **Founders**: Not explicitly listed in provided sources; company originated from the Stanford AI Lab

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI data development, software development, AI/ML research
- **Target customers**: B2B; frontier AI labs, enterprises, government agencies
- **Mission**: “We’re building the data and environments behind the world’s most advanced AI systems.”

## Products & Services
- **Custom Data Development**: Bespoke datasets, evaluation frameworks, and benchmark expansions for specialized AI models and agents. Type: Service / Platform.
- **Specialized Agents**: Agents grounded in expert data, evaluated against task-specific rubrics and programmatic checks. Type: AI solution.
- **Snorkel Data Series**: Curriculum-structured datasets with rubrics, reviewer guidance, difficulty tiers, and eval slices. Type: Dataset product.
- **Evaluation Research**: Proprietary frameworks like RIFT (Rubric Failure Mode Taxonomy) and benchmarks such as OSWORLD 2.0 and Terminal-Bench 2.0. Type: Research / tooling.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue $38.6M (LinkedIn estimate) | Total Funding $250.2M (9 rounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Addition, Greylock, GV (Google Ventures), In-Q-Tel, Lightspeed Venture Partners, funds managed by BlackRock, QBE Ventures
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 62.5% YoY to 801 employees; operates in 15 countries; trusted by leading AI labs and enterprises; 250+ publications at top conferences (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, etc.)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Proprietary data development process** based on programmatic data labeling and weak supervision, pioneered at Stanford AI Lab
- **Deep academic roots** with ongoing research collaborations and peer-reviewed publications
- **Focus on frontier AI data quality** (task specification, calibrated review, provenance) rather than volume
- **Embedded delivery model** combining platform, research, and domain expertise

## Strategic Focus
- Building the data and environments for frontier models and agentic AI
- Expanding into enterprise and government deployments
- Advancing research on RLVR (Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards) in low-data regimes
- Creating evaluation standards for agentic systems (e.g., Terminal-Bench, OSWORLD 2.0)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Quality first”, “Push the frontier”, “Competitive yet kind” – fast-moving, high bar, no ego
- **Locations**: Primarily San Francisco, Redwood City, and New York City, with remote/hybrid options globally
- **Benefits**: Comprehensive medical coverage, parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents, flexible PTO, equity refresh grants, wellbeing allowance, company events
- **Engineering culture**: Work with PhDs, subject matter experts, and domain specialists on cutting-edge AI data challenges
- **Open roles**: 45 positions across Research, Engineering, Sales, Operations, Product, etc. (as of latest posting)

## Sources
1. [snorkel.ai/company/](https://snorkel.ai/company/)
2. [snorkel.ai/](https://snorkel.ai/)
3. [snorkel.ai/join-us/](https://snorkel.ai/join-us/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/snorkel-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/snorkel-ai)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/snorkelai/jobs/5990959004)

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