Commercial Counsel - New York - Taktile

Description

About the Role

About the Role: We at Taktile are seeking our first US-based Legal hire. As (Senior) Commercial Counsel, you will be the primary legal architect for our North and South American operations. You will sit at the intersection of law, sales, and product, ensuring our agentic decision platform scales safely and rapidly. This is a "player-coach" role: you will draft the contracts today while building the legal operations that will support the company for years to come. This role reports into our CFO.

What You'll Do

• Lead the Deal: Own the end-to-end sales contract lifecycle for the Americas. Draft and negotiate high-stakes MSAs, SaaS agreements, DPAs and NDAs with sophisticated fintechs and global banks.
• Build the Machine: As the first US legal hire, you will design and implement Taktile's US sales-legal workflow. This includes creating playbooks, fallback positions, and self-service tools for our GTM team.
• Partnership Expansion: Lead legal strategy for our burgeoning reseller and partner ecosystem, ensuring our indirect sales channels are robust and compliant.
• Vendor & Procurement: Review and negotiate key vendor and technology agreements.
• Regulatory Landscape: Advise on US privacy laws, AI and automated decision-making regulations, financial services requirements (FCRA, ECOA, GLBA, AML/BSA, UDAP/UDAAP), and data security standards as they impact Taktile's platform and customer contracts.
• Bridge the Atlantic: Coordinate with our German HQ (Taktile GmbH) regarding IP licensing and intercompany agreements under the Taktile Holding umbrella.

Who You Are

• Qualified: JD from an accredited law school and active bar membership.
• Experienced: 5+ years of experience in tech transactions, with significant time spent in-house at a high-growth SaaS or Fintech company.

Ideal, But Not Required

• Fintech-Fluent: You understand the nuances of credit risk, lending data, and the regulatory scrutiny our customers face.
• Systems Thinker: You don't just want to review redlines; you want to implement a CLM and automate the 80% so you can focus on the strategic 20%.

What we offer

• Work with colleagues that lift you up, challenge you, celebrate you and help you grow. We come from many different backgrounds, but what we have in common is the desire to operate at the very top of our fields. If you are similarly capable, caring, and driven, you'll find yourself at home here.
• Make an impact and meaningfully shape an early-stage company.
• Experience a truly flat hierarchy and communicate directly with founding team members. Having an opinion and voicing your ideas is not only welcome but encouraged, especially when they challenge the status quo.
• Learn from experienced mentors and achieve tremendous personal and professional growth. Get to know and leverage our network of leading tech investors and advisors around the globe.
• Receive a top-of-market equity and cash compensation package.
• Get access to a self-development budget you can use to e.g. attend conferences, buy books or take classes.
• Use the equipment of your choice including meaningful home office set-up.

Our Stance

• We're eager to meet talented and driven candidates regardless of whether they tick all the boxes. We're looking for someone who will add to our culture, not just fit within it. We strongly encourage individuals from groups traditionally underestimated and underrepresented in tech to apply.
• We seek to actively recognize and combat racism, sexism, ableism and ageism. We embrace and support all gender identities and expressions, and celebrate love in its many forms. We won't inquire about how you identify or if you've experienced discrimination, but if you want to tell your story, we are all ears.

About Us

Taktile helps financial institutions make smarter, safer decisions with the power of AI. Our software gives teams the tools to automate complex decisions — like who to onboard, how to underwrite, or when to flag suspicious activity — with full visibility and control.

By combining AI with a rich ecosystem of financial data, Taktile enables companies to adapt their decision-making in real time as markets, customer behavior, and risks evolve.

Our mission is to build the world's leading platform for automated decision-making in financial services — setting the standard for how AI is applied responsibly and effectively in this industry.

We were founded by machine learning and data science experts with deep experience in financial services. Today, our team works across Berlin, London, and New York, bringing together engineers, entrepreneurs, and researchers from companies like Google, Amazon, and Meta, as well as fast-growing startups and enterprise leaders.

Backed by top investors including Y Combinator, Index Ventures, Balderton Capital, and Tiger Global, along with the founders of Looker, GitHub, Mulesoft, Datadog, and UiPath - we're building a world-class organization across all functions and levels to power the next generation of AI-driven decision-making in financial services.

Compensation Range: $180K - $225K