Interim Senior Legal Counsel (Remote)

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.

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.

Engagement Type: Interim engagement (Epiq Counsel model)
Hours: Full-time, approximately 40 hours per week; Fully remote (U.North American business hours, with occasional coordination with EMEA and APAC counterparties
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; Healthcare, paid vacation, paid holidays, paid bar dues, plus engagement support and coaching

Draft, redline, and negotiate retail, carrier, reseller, distributor, and enterprise channel agreements for consumer hardware products, from first redline through signature
Carry two to three material deals at a time with oversight, growing in autonomy as you learn the client’s playbooks and risk framework
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
Support other attorneys on the team across a varied portfolio of commercial matters
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
Strong commercial judgment; Comfort with volume, ambiguity, and deadlines set by product launches rather than legal calendars
Excellent English-language drafting, negotiation, and communication skills
Exposure to competition law issues in distribution — unilateral pricing policies, MAP, exclusivity
Prior work inside a large, matrixed technology company

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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