Higgsfield is seeking a Commercial Counsel to serve as a key legal partner to our Sales team.

This role sits within the company's commercial legal function, supporting enterprise sales, strategic partnerships, and other initiatives across a rapidly growing global business. You will also help build and optimize our contracting processes and controls to keep pace with accelerating revenue and business growth.

The ideal candidate is an exceptional, detail-oriented commercial attorney who thrives in fast-paced, demanding environments with a high volume of deals. He or she must intuitively understand how to balance legal risk with business objectives and can communicate guidance in a highly practical way.

What You'll Do

Drive Commercial Transactions

• Lead the negotiation, drafting, and execution of complex commercial agreements, with a strong focus on enterprise sales agreements

• Partner directly with GTM leadership to support sales cycles and remove legal bottlenecks that impact revenue generation.

• Provide practical legal guidance that balances risk management with business growth objectives.

• Support international commercial expansion and evolving go-to-market strategies.

• Work closely with our distributed workforce across timezones and legal jurisdictions.

Partner with Business Teams

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to adapt our sales agreements to reflect our new product launches, features, target clients, and strategic initiatives.

• Advise leadership on commercial risk management and strategic transactions, and propose pragmatic solutions.

• Support special projects and emerging business priorities as the company continues to scale.

Build Scalable Legal Infrastructure

• Develop and maintain contract templates, negotiation playbooks, fallback positions, and approval frameworks.

• Improve contracting processes and workflows to increase efficiency and shorten deal cycles.

• Partner with business stakeholders to optimize and scale contract management systems and reporting.

• Monitor legal and regulatory developments impacting AI, digital media, content generation, advertising technology, consumer protection, and enterprise software businesses.

What We're Looking For

• J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar.

• 7-10 years of legal experience, including substantial experience negotiating and advising on commercial transactions.

• Combination of top law firm and in-house experience strongly preferred.

• Exceptional drafting, negotiation, and communication skills.

• Strong expertise in sales transactions and strategic partnerships, with the legal knowledge required to understand the issues underlying the provisions.

• Experience advising high-growth technology businesses.

• Strong business judgment with the ability to provide practical, actionable advice.

• Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate independently in a fast-moving, demanding environment. This role will handle a high volume of contracts.

• Collaborative, low-ego, and highly execution-oriented mindset.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting AI, machine learning, creator economy, digital media, advertising technology, or content platforms.

• Experience building commercial legal processes in a high-growth startup environment.

• Familiarity with data privacy, intellectual property, liability assessments, and remedies.

• Substantial experience working with Ironclad strongly preferred.

The deal

• Competitive salary in USD.

• On-site role in Almaty office.

• Full-time position.