[Hiring] Commercial Counsel @Viktor

Role Description

You are Viktor's first dedicated legal hire. You own the legal work that helps Viktor do business:

• Hands-on commercial contracts under US law
• AI-specific contracting
• Practical data protection
• External counsel management

You review, draft and negotiate yourself and stay on a matter until it is signed or resolved. You report to Raje, our CFO. Warsaw is preferred; remote within Europe works.

AI contracting raises questions most templates do not answer:

• What happens to a customer's data?
• Who owns the output?
• Where responsibility sits when the product acts for a customer?

You take positions on these in live customer, supplier and partner negotiations, then turn them into templates and negotiation positions the team can reuse.

The role combines judgment with routine drafting, obligation tracking, and administrative follow-through across a cross-border business with US, Polish, and German entities. Vendor-contract volume is growing, and legal reviews are getting harder to handle ad hoc. You make them manageable before they become urgent.

What You'll Actually Do:

• Review, draft and negotiate customer, supplier and partner agreements under US law: SaaS terms, order forms, NDAs and DPAs.
• Give clear recommendations and remain involved until signature or resolution.
• Own AI-specific contracting issues: data use and training, output ownership, liability and warranties.
• Lead legal readiness for enterprise deals and diligence.
• Maintain usable templates, negotiation positions, and an organised contract archive.
• Own practical data-protection work and translate regulatory or specialist advice into actions with owners and deadlines.
• Manage external counsel: briefs, budgets and advice, coordinating other jurisdictions and specialist matters through the right people.
• Support fundraising and corporate transactions.
• Help Finance keep records, approvals, filing deadlines and authorities current across the US, Polish and German entities.
• Improve legal intake, drafting and tracking with approved AI tools and human review.

Qualifications

• Admitted to practise in a US state, with hands-on experience drafting and negotiating US-law commercial contracts.
• Commercial judgment: distinguish material business risk from a drafting preference and propose workable alternatives.
• End-to-end ownership of matters: negotiation, resolution, obligation tracking, administrative follow-through, and early escalation.
• Ability to run the US-law core and coordinate other jurisdictions, especially the EU.
• Precise written and spoken English with customers, founders, and advisers.
• Organised, discreet and proactive: raise an issue together with a proposed next step.

Requirements

• This is a hands-on commercial counsel role.
• If you want a primarily corporate or governance remit, expect to delegate the drafting and negotiation, or treat every drafting preference as a blocker, this is not the right fit.

Benefits

• Top-of-the-market salary.
• Ownership that only exists at this stage.
• Warsaw preferred; remote within Europe is possible.

Company Description

Viktor is the AI employee. He lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams, connects to thousands of tools, and does real work for real companies: finance, marketing, ops, engineering. We're building the product that replaces half the SaaS stack.

The team is small. The scope is not.