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title: 'Legal Counsel, Commercial Contracts at Socure'
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# Legal Counsel, Commercial Contracts at Socure

- **Company:** [Socure](https://feeny.ai/companies/socure)
- **Location:** United States
- **Compensation:** $150k–$180k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/socure/54e40d4c-0745-4239-85d4-d2d4aeab7638

## Job description

Why Socure? Socure is building the identity trust infrastructure for the digital economy — verifying 100% of good identities in real time and stopping fraud before it starts. The mission is big, the problems are complex, and the impact is felt by businesses, governments, and millions of people every day. We hire people who want that level of responsibility. People who move fast, think critically, act like owners, and care deeply about solving customer problems with precision. If you want predictability or narrow scope, this won’t be your place. If you want to help build the future of identity with a team that holds a high bar for itself — keep reading.

Job Summary Socure's legal team is seeking a Commercial Counsel. Reporting to our Head of Commercial Legal or a Senior Legal Counsel, you will have a chance to help shape the company's legal function, build processes and policies, and partner with Sales, Finance, Product, and Engineering teams, as well as other attorneys. We offer an exciting, fast-paced company environment, with a shared mission to eliminate identity fraud and lead the identity verification market. This is a great opportunity for someone who is passionate about their work, enjoys taking ownership of projects, and is skilled at identifying pragmatic solutions. Socure's Legal team is part of the Financial Operations Center of Excellence organization, and we pride ourselves on best-in-class legal counsel contributing to Socure's mission to eliminate identity fraud.

Job Responsibilities

- Advise on a broad range of commercial matters, serving as legal partner to Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Security, and Product on deal structure, contract negotiations, risk, and compliance
- Review, draft, negotiate, and interpret a wide range of technology and commercial contracts, including SaaS agreements, partner/reseller agreements, NDAs, evaluation agreements, and vendor contracts
- Independently identify and resolve legal and regulatory risks related to IP, licensing, data use, privacy, and compliance in commercial contracts
- Become an expert on Socure's products and business models, and help bring new offerings to market
- Identify and advise on risk, and offer creative, pragmatic risk-mitigation solutions
- Prepare, maintain, and improve template agreements, playbooks, and operational guidance to help the sales and legal teams move faster
- Use AI tools as part of your everyday contract workflow — including AI-assisted drafting, redlining, and review — to accelerate turnaround on sales contracts, and surface ideas for where automation could further improve the team's efficiency
- Ensure that customer contract terms addressing data usage rights or restrictions are consistent with the rights Socure has secured under its underlying data-acquisition and vendor agreements, coordinating as needed with the Senior Corporate Counsel, Data Acquisition & Licensing, the Data Acquisition team, Product Counsel, and Privacy

Job Requirements

- JD from an accredited law school and active Bar membership in good standing
- 4-8 years of post-JD experience independently negotiating SaaS, technology, licensing, partner, and vendor agreements with minimal oversight
- Working knowledge of consumer data privacy laws relevant to commercial contracting (e.g., CCPA/CPRA, GLBA, FCRA) and how they shape customer-facing data terms
- Law firm, data use/licensing, and fintech experience preferred
- Experience with public sector (SLED and/or Federal) sales contracting, such as supporting RFP/RFx responses or government procurement processes, is preferred
- Comfort using AI tools (e.g., contract drafting, redlining, or review assistants) as part of your daily workflow; interest in helping the team adopt and refine AI-supported processes is a plus
- A drive for continuous improvement, and the willingness to voice your opinion
- Ability to independently manage and own multiple projects with varying deadlines; comfortable making decisions under ambiguous circumstances
- A focus on closing deals and finding pragmatic solutions to any issue you encounter
- Ability to adapt to change in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- Collaborative partnership and diplomatic communication with multiple constituencies
- An understanding of the commitment and hard work involved in working at a successful, fast-growing start-up Socure is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity in all its forms within our company. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you need an accommodation during any stage of the application or hiring process—including interview or onboarding support—please reach out to your Socure recruiting partner directly.

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## About Socure

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Socure provides an AI-powered platform for digital identity verification, fraud prevention, and risk decisioning, used by enterprises and government agencies to verify consumers, businesses, and employees.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series E)
- **Headquarters**: Incline Village, Nevada, USA
- **Founded**: 2012
- **Founders**: Johnny Ayers (CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Digital Identity Verification, Fraud Prevention, Risk Decisioning, RegTech
- **Target customers**: B2B — primarily Enterprise and Government. Serves financial services (18 of top 20 banks), government agencies (13 U.S. states, 2 federal agencies), gaming/sportsbooks, healthcare, telecom, e-commerce, marketplaces, and fintechs.
- **Mission or purpose**: To verify 100% of good identities and eliminate identity fraud.

## Products & Services
- **RiskOS®**: The company’s core AI platform for identity and risk decisioning. It is a fully vertically integrated platform that allows customers to design, test, and deploy identity, risk, compliance, age assurance, and authentication workflows across the entire customer journey.
- **Predictive Risk Score Solution**: A risk scoring solution that provides real-time fraud protection and decisioning.
- **Effectiv (Acquired)**: An end-to-end identity fraud and payment risk management solution that adds transaction monitoring, credit underwriting, and Know-Your-Business (KYB) capabilities to the Socure platform.
- **FedRAMP Authorized Solution**: A version of the platform authorized for use by U.S. federal government agencies.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (Private company).
- **Key Metric**: Serves over 3,000 customers. The company has access to an identity graph of hundreds of billions of records and over 40 billion historical known outcomes.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors are not explicitly listed on the provided sources, but the customer base includes Capital One, Citi, Chime, SoFi, Lili, Green Dot, Robinhood, Dave, Gusto, Poshmark, Uber, DraftKings, PrizePicks, and the State of California.
- **Growth Signals**: 
    - Achieved **FedRAMP Authorization** in April 2025, a significant milestone for selling to U.S. federal government agencies.
    - Acquired **Effectiv** to expand into payment risk management and credit underwriting.
    - Customer base includes 18 of the top 20 banks and 500+ fintechs.
    - Over 130 public sector organizations as customers.
    - Listed 100 open positions across the company.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vertically Integrated Platform**: Socure claims to be the industry’s only fully vertically integrated identity and risk platform, which it says delivers unparalleled auto-approval and fraud capture rates.
- **Massive Data Graph**: Its identity graph of hundreds of billions of records and 40 billion historical outcomes provides a deep data moat that is difficult for competitors to replicate.
- **Breadth of Use Cases**: The platform supports virtually any industry and use case, from workforce verification to prediction markets, making it a versatile partner.
- **Government Authorization**: FedRAMP authorization gives it a unique and defensible position in the public sector market.

## Strategic Focus
- **Government Expansion**: With the recent FedRAMP authorization, a major focus is expanding into federal and state government programs.
- **Platform Expansion**: Integrating the Effectiv acquisition to offer a more comprehensive suite covering identity, payments, and credit risk.
- **AI Innovation**: Continuing to leverage AI on "offense" to keep pace with the fast-moving AI threat landscape (deepfakes, synthetic identity fraud).

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: Socure is a remote-first company with talent hubs in San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Washington DC, Miami, London, Chennai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad. Employees have flexibility and autonomy.
- **High-Impact Work**: The company tackles hard problems in digital identity and fraud, which are central to trust in the digital world. The culture emphasizes high performance and purpose.
- **Benefits**: 
    - Market-competitive base salary and performance bonuses.
    - Equity for all full-time employees.
    - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance.
    - Mental health support.
    - 401(k) with company match.
    - Flexible PTO and generous paid parental leave.
    - Professional development stipend.
    - Work-from-home stipend and Deskpass access for coworking.
    - Hackathons to fuel innovation.
- **Growth & Development**: Internal mobility and career pathing opportunities, access to the latest technology.
- **Team Size**: Approximately 386 total employees (per Built In), with 100 open positions signaling strong growth.

## Sources
1. [socure.com](https://www.socure.com/)
2. [socure.com](https://www.socure.com/company/careers)
3. [socure.com](https://www.socure.com/company)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/socure?source_page=%2Fcompany%2Fcareers)
5. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/socure)

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