Legal Counsel (Commercial)

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Advising the business on a broad range of commercial matters, with a primary focus on global procurement, supply chain, technology, and vendor management, as well as general US commercial work
• Drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements, including procurement, supplier, services, software/SaaS, data, licensing, consulting, and other operational contracts
• Supporting large, complex strategic transactions involving OEM partnerships and Tier 1 suppliers, including development, proofs of concept, integration, deployment, production, and related commercial arrangements
• Advising on product, marketing, intellectual property, data privacy, and general corporate matters on an ad hoc basis, in partnership with other members of the Legal Team and external counsel where required
• Partnering closely with engineering, procurement, finance, privacy, communications, commercial, and operational teams to provide practical and commercially focused legal advice
• Helping to develop scalable processes, templates, playbooks, and governance structures to support Wayve’s growth and contracting volume
• Managing external counsel and coordinating cross-border legal advice where required
• Supporting strategic initiatives, market expansion, and new product deployments from a commercial legal perspective