Senior Legal Counsel

About the Opportunity

Epiq Counsel is seeking a Commercial Counsel to support our client, a global technology leader, on the legal team for its consumer hardware business.

This is an interim engagement for a mid-level commercial attorney who likes being close to the sale. You’ll negotiate the downstream agreements that get hardware into customers’ hands — retailers, carriers, resellers, and enterprise channels — working inside established templates and playbooks, embedded with a go-to-market organization that runs on launch dates. It is a hands-on, deal-facing role: you’ll own negotiations with oversight from the lead counsel, make practical risk calls, and help sales find a workable path to yes on a compressed timeline.

About the Client

Our client is one of the world’s leading technology companies, and this team supports the go-to-market and in-market activity for its consumer hardware lines — including AI-enabled wearables, virtual reality devices, and upcoming product launches. Legal is embedded directly with the commercial organization, and this role will be shared across a small team of attorneys, with a varied mix of channel work and the opportunity to grow into more bespoke partnership and business-development matters over time.

Key Details

• Engagement Type: Interim engagement (Epiq Counsel model)
• Duration: Longer-term, 1–2 years
• Hours: Full-time, approximately 40 hours per week; peaks around product launches and Q4
• Work Model: Fully remote (U.S.-based); North American business hours, with occasional coordination with EMEA and APAC counterparties
• Start Date: Mid-to-late October 2026
• Client Exposure: Day-to-day work with the lead commercial counsel and other attorneys on the team; direct partnership with sales, channel, and go-to-market leaders; regular negotiation with retailer, carrier, and reseller counsel
• Compensation: $200,000 to $250,000 (annualized), W-2 through Epiq Counsel
• Benefits: Healthcare, paid vacation, paid holidays, paid bar dues, plus engagement support and coaching

Responsibilities

Channel & Distribution Negotiation (60%)

• Draft, redline, and negotiate retail, carrier, reseller, distributor, and enterprise channel agreements for consumer hardware products, from first redline through signature
• Negotiate on both the client’s paper and counterparty paper, including with large retailers and carriers with their own templates
• Carry two to three material deals at a time with oversight, growing in autonomy as you learn the client’s playbooks and risk framework
• Support a steady deal flow of one to two agreements per week, with volume spikes around launches

Go-to-Market Counseling (25%)

• Partner day to day with sales, channel partnerships, and commercial leadership on deal structure, pricing and promotion terms, and non-standard requests
• Spot and escalate pricing-policy, exclusivity, and other competition-sensitive terms to the right specialists before they go out
• Make real-time risk calls on launch timelines and help stakeholders get to a workable outcome

Playbooks, Templates & Team Support (15%)

• Learn and apply the client’s templates, playbooks, and fallback positions, and improve them where you see the opportunity
• Support other attorneys on the team across a varied portfolio of commercial matters
• Over time, cross-train into bespoke collaboration work — joint go-to-market, joint product development, and business-development agreements

Qualifications

• JD and active U.S. law license in good standing
• Approximately 5–9 years of experience, with significant hands-on experience drafting and negotiating commercial agreements in-house or in a sophisticated commercial practice
• Sell-side experience supporting a sales or go-to-market organization — enterprise, retail, or telco — with a real understanding of how sales teams work and the pressure they operate under
• Strong commercial judgment; able to make sound calls quickly and know what to escalate
• Comfort with volume, ambiguity, and deadlines set by product launches rather than legal calendars
• Excellent English-language drafting, negotiation, and communication skills
• A collaborative, solutions-focused style — effective with internal business teams and credible across the table

Preferred Experience

• Retail, reseller, distributor, or carrier channel agreements for physical products
• Consumer electronics, hardware, or consumer products industry experience
• Exposure to competition law issues in distribution — unilateral pricing policies, MAP, exclusivity
• Experience with marketing, promotion, and advertising review tied to product launches
• Prior work inside a large, matrixed technology company

Why This Role

This is a chance to do real deal work on products people actually use, inside one of the most sophisticated commercial legal functions in technology. It’s ideal for a mid-level commercial attorney who wants to own negotiations rather than review from the sidelines, enjoys the pace of a launch calendar, and wants a path into more complex partnership work — with the flexibility and support of the Epiq Counsel model.

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