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Salary: USD 186,000 - 278,000 / annual
Relativity Space is building rockets to serve today's needs and tomorrow's breakthroughs. The Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting growing demand for launch capacity. The company is in a formative, high-growth phase where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level.
The Legal team is nimble, entrepreneurial, and deeply collaborative, working across many departments to support Relativity's ambitious goals. The Senior Commercial Counsel will serve as strategic legal counsel supporting the company's buy-side commercial transactions and disputes.
Key Responsibilities:
- Structure and negotiate transactions that enable maturity of technology and manufacturing, ensuring alignment with company objectives, financial plans, and legal positions. Lead high-stakes negotiations for significant transactions, providing strategic counsel on commercial terms, risk allocation, financial implications, and executive alignment.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of contracts and transaction documents, including agreements for technology development, rocket parts, manufacturing services, commodities, and capex purchase and lease arrangements.
- Provide strategic counsel that empowers leadership and cross-functional teams to make practical, well-informed decisions by translating legal complexity into clear business guidance.
- Develop, implement, and scale strategies, standards, and playbooks for negotiation, risk mitigation, and dispute resolution for buy-side commercial transactions.
- Manage post-contract execution risks and disputes in close partnership with business stakeholders.
- Create a foundation of standards and practices that enable effective and sound scaling of the contract management function to support rapid growth.
Requirements:
- JD from an accredited law school, active bar membership in at least one U.S. state, and 5+ years of post-JD experience (including 2+ years at a law firm).
- Depth in commercial transactions, such as supplier contracts, technology agreements, equipment purchase and lease, manufacturing agreements, or service agreements.
- Strong commercial judgment and the ability to develop strategic approaches and lead novel, high-stakes negotiations. Not merely review routine contracts or apply standard playbooks.
- Experience handling commercial disputes and pre-litigation matters, arbitration, and litigation, including developing resolution strategy and balancing legal risk against business objectives.
- Systems thinker who thrives in a fast-paced, innovative environment and can design scalable processes.
- Motivated self-starter who can lead cross-functional projects independently and thrive in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.
Nice to haves:
- Experience with supply chain legal issues, tariffs, and international transactions.
- Knowledge of financial analysis and ability to evaluate commercial terms from a financial perspective.
- Experience implementing contract lifecycle management (CLM) systems and legal technology tools.
