Senior Commercial Counsel
Location
San Francisco, CA
Employment type
Full-time
About us
We're building the creative layer for modern communication. Every month, over a billion people make presentations — but the tools they use to make them haven't evolved in decades. We're changing that, using AI to disrupt a massive market.
📈 Millions of people rely on Gamma to create, teach, and persuade, creating more than 1 million gammas every day.
💻 We see Gamma as the next great workplace tool, combining viral B2C love with a massive B2B opportunity. We believe AI can be a true creative partner: one that understands context, clarity, and taste.
💸 We’ve reached a $2.1B valuation, crossed $100M in annual recurring revenue, and have been profitable since 2023.
💙 We're an imaginative, passionate team who takes our work seriously, but not ourselves. Our culture is warm, a little quirky, and fueled by curiosity.
About the role
You’ll be Gamma's second lawyer, reporting to the Head of Legal, with a mandate to own commercial and privacy work that comes with scaling an AI-powered platform. This is a high-autonomy role: you’ll run enterprise deal cycles end to end, assist in building out our privacy compliance program, and advise cross-functional teams.
Gamma has over 70 million users, is profitable with $100M+ ARR, and is making a major push into B2B enterprise sales. That means the volume and complexity of our legal work is growing fast: sophisticated customer negotiations, heightened privacy and security expectations, and increasing regulatory attention on AI products. We need someone who can keep pace.
Our team has a strong in-office culture and works in person 4–5 days per week in San Francisco. We love working together to stay creative and connected, with flexibility to work from home when focus matters most.
What you'll do
  • Draft, review, and negotiate the full range of commercial agreements: customer MSAs, order forms, DPAs, vendor contracts, NDAs, and partnership deals on both the sell side and buy side
  • Run enterprise deal cycles alongside the GTM, including negotiations with sophisticated legal teams at large counterparties
  • Evolve Gamma’s data privacy compliance program
  • Advise Product and Engineering on privacy-by-design, AI compliance (including EU AI Act readiness), and data handling practices
  • Help build scalable legal processes, playbooks, and templates to support Gamma’s growing B2B motion
What you'll bring
  • JD and active bar membership (California preferred)
  • 4–7 years of legal experience, including meaningful time at a major law firm and at least 2-3 years in-house at a SaaS or technology company
  • Deep experience negotiating SaaS commercial agreements with enterprise customers
  • Working knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, and data protection frameworks sufficient to handle DPA negotiations and day-to-day privacy operations without close supervision
  • Familiarity with AI/ML regulatory developments (EU AI Act, state-level AI legislation) and an ability to translate regulatory requirements into practical product guidance
  • Sharp judgment on when to protect and when to clear the path—you understand that legal risk management serves the business
  • Direct, clear communication: you can explain a complex redline position to a sales rep or a privacy obligation to an engineer without losing the audience
Nice to have
  • Experience at a high-growth startup navigating the transition from consumer/prosumer to enterprise
  • Hands-on experience with international data transfers and multi-jurisdictional privacy compliance
  • Exposure to security compliance frameworks (SOC 2, security questionnaires) in a vendor-facing context
Compensation range:
$180K - $260K, plus competitive equity.
Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including but not limited to experience and expertise in the requirements listed above.
If you're interested in this role but you don't meet every requirement, we encourage you to apply anyway! We're always excited about meeting great people.
Life at Gamma
🤝 You’ll fit right in if…
  • You get energy from small teams doing big things.
  • You love when design, code, and storytelling overlap.
  • You default to action, even when the answer isn’t clear yet.
  • You value details, but know when to ship and move on.
  • You bring both the spreadsheets and the sparkle, equal parts workhorse and unicorn.
  • You believe AI should amplify creativity, not replace it.
  • You know kindness and intensity are not opposites.
  • You like working with people who care deeply: about their craft, their teammates, and the users on the other side of the screen.
💙 Who we are
Gamma is full of imaginative, passionate people who take their work seriously but not themselves. The culture is warm, a little quirky, and fueled by curiosity. It’s the kind of place where you’ll debate a pixel on Monday, laugh over someone’s keyboard setup on Tuesday, and ship something remarkable by Friday.
We care about craft, move with intention, and don’t mind getting a little scrappy. It’s fast, creative, and occasionally chaotic — but that’s what makes it interesting.
💬 Here’s a bit about what it’s like to work here, from people on the inside:
We asked the team what makes Gamma, Gamma. Here were some of their answers:
  • "quirky, inspiring, fun, a little wild in the best way"
  • "You can have an idea and just run with it."
  • "Everyone’s talented and humble — the mix keeps you sharp."
  • "We ship cool stuff, learn a ton, and laugh a lot doing it."
Meet the team
We're a team of dreamers and doers building in beautiful San Francisco 🌉
We're kabbadi enthusiasts, pickleballers, dog herders, woodworkers, keyboard nerds, potters, and more — and we can't wait to meet you!