Senior Legal Counsel

Senior Legal Counsel, Technology Procurement
About the company:
Our client builds and operates large-scale data centers and AI cloud infrastructure for some of the world's leading hyperscalers and AI companies. Its campuses supply the power, space and compute behind some of the largest AI workloads being built today.

The company is growing fast, but it is still early. The legal team is being built now, and the people who join will shape how it works for years to come.

The Role:
Our client is hiring a Senior Legal Counsel to lead the legal side of its technology procurement. You will draft and negotiate the strategic supply agreements that bring hardware into the company's data centers. GPUs are the top priority, alongside servers, networking equipment and the other technology that goes into a modern AI data center.

This is a hands-on role for a lawyer who has personally run these deals. You will lead negotiations with major suppliers and work closely with the company's procurement, engineering, finance and operations teams.

Responsibilities:

Draft, negotiate and close strategic hardware supply agreements, with a focus on GPUs

Lead legal work on purchases of servers, networking equipment and other data center technology

Run negotiations directly with major hardware suppliers and manufacturers

Advise on supply chain risk, including allocation, delivery, warranties, pricing and liability

Build the templates, playbooks and processes that the procurement function will run on

Partner with procurement, engineering, finance and operations to keep deployments on schedule

Manage outside counsel where needed

Experience:

15+ years of experience, ideally a mix of in-house work and training at a top-tier law firm

Direct experience drafting and negotiating strategic hardware supply agreements as the buyer

GPU or AI infrastructure procurement experience strongly preferred

A background on a global supply chain, hardware sourcing or infrastructure procurement legal team at a leading technology company

Experience leading negotiations with major suppliers and manufacturers

Sound commercial judgment and the ability to work at the pace of a fast-growing business

Get in on the ground floor.

The company is on a steep growth curve but still early enough that you can define how its procurement legal function works.

Work at the center of AI infrastructure.

Your deals will directly decide how quickly the company can bring new compute online for its customers.

Own high-stakes work.

You will lead some of the most strategic supplier relationships in the business, not support them from the sidelines.

Shape the team.

As the function grows, you will help set its processes, standards and priorities.

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