Counsel, Commercial
<p><strong>About the Role:</strong></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">We are immediately hiring a </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Counsel, Commercial</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> to join our legal team in </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">New York</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> on a hybrid schedule.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">You will be an integral part of our legal team, focusing on commercial contract negotiations, contract structuring, and simplifying complex legal matters for various stakeholders. Your expertise will help guide our business teams through legal challenges and opportunities in a dynamic Ad Tech environment.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p>
<p><span data-contrast="auto">This role offers a rare combination of opportunities: use AI and legal operations best practices to scale and improve an established, high-volume commercial contracting practice on our sell-side business, including streamlining workflows and improving templates and playbooks, while helping build new legal processes from the ground up as PubMatic expands into demand-side and full-stack ad tech offerings. You'll work on emerging legal issues in a company at the forefront of applying AI, including agentic AI, across the advertising supply chain. We're looking for someone curious, energetic, and adaptable who wants to grow with the business.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></p>
<p><strong>What You'll Do:</strong></p>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Contract Negotiations & Structuring: </span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">Negotiate and draft commercial agreements with publishers, buyers, and partners, ensuring alignment with business objectives and legal requirements.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Legal Advisory: </span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">Provide practical guidance on commercial matters, including emerging issues as PubMatic expands beyond the sell side into demand-side and AI-driven products.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Complex Legal Topics:</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> Translate complex legal concepts into plain language for stakeholders, ensuring clarity and understanding across the organization.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Compliance & Risk Management: </span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">Identify where privacy and advertising regulation shape the commercial terms we can offer, and mitigate legal risk across our agreements</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Product Partnership:</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> Work closely with the Product team to stay ahead of product changes that affect our agreements, reflect product nuances in negotiations, and channel product requests and feedback surfaced during negotiations back to the Product team.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="4" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Cross-functional Collaboration: </span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">Work closely with sales, marketing, product, and engineering teams to support business initiatives and provide legal insights.</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li>
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<p><strong>Who You Are:</strong></p>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="1" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">J.D. from an accredited law school and admission in good standing to at least one U.S. state bar (New York admission or eligibility for New York in-house counsel registration preferred).</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="2" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">2-7 years of relevant experience at a law firm, in-house, or a combination of both</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="3" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Solid commercial contracting experience, including data protection and privacy contracting (e.g., DPAs, data licensing and usage terms), and the ability to issue spot for business risks</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="4" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Comfort using generative AI tools in day-to-day legal work, and genuine interest in legal ops: building efficient, AI-enabled contracting, negotiation, and workflow processes</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="5" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Curiosity, energy, and adaptability; you enjoy learning new technologies and business models and thrive when the ground is shifting</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="6" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Ability to negotiate positively and proactively (internally and externally) and close transactions efficiently</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="7" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Good business, risk, and legal judgment and the ability to work flexibly with a variety of teams</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="8" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Excellent communication (verbal and written) and drafting skills</span><span data-ccp-props="{"335559738":240,"335559739":240}"> </span></li>
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<li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="1" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol","469769242":[8226],"469777803":"left","469777804":"","469777815":"hybridMultilevel"}" data-aria-posinset="9" data-aria-level="1"><span data-contrast="auto">Strong work ethic with high level of productivity while still maintaining a high
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