Corporate Counsel
As a Corporate Counsel at vCluster, your role will put you at the center of every deal that matters. We are looking for a commercially sharp, pragmatic lawyer who knows how to hold the line on a redline without blowing up a deal, and who is excited to grow into the company's key legal voice as we scale. This is not a paper pushing role. You will own real negotiations, work directly with leadership, and use tools to move fast across dimensions that most in house counsel would slow down on.
As a Corporate Counsel, your role will include:
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Contract Negotiation: Reviewing and negotiating customer and vendor agreements including MSAs, DPAs, NDAs, information security annexes, and supplier codes of conduct, holding vCluster's position professionally without alienating the counterparty.
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Deal Volume: Managing a high and steady volume of enterprise contracts across major customers and vendors without becoming the bottleneck to closing.
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Cross Discipline Judgment: Using tools to research law outside your core focus area so you can give the business a fast, well-reasoned answer. Being able to separate where you can find answers and where you need to work with specialized outside counsel.
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Stakeholder Partnership: Working closely with the sales team to protect the company's position without stalling momentum.
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Process and Templates: Building and maintaining contract templates, redline playbooks, and internal guidance so lower risk paperwork can move quickly without a full legal review every time.
What you bring:
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Commercial Contracting Experience: You have experience as a contract lawyer or commercial counsel, comfortable with SaaS, enterprise, and vendor agreements, and you understand the mechanics of a real negotiation.
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Enterprise Agreement Expertise: You have negotiated large, complex enterprise sales agreements.
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Pragmatic, Professional Pushback: You know how to hold firm on a position and push back hard when it matters, but you do it in a way that keeps the relationship intact and gets the deal done.
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AI Native: You are comfortable using tools to accelerate research and drafting, especially in areas outside your primary expertise.
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Bias to Action: You do not escalate everything to outside counsel or hide behind uncertainty. You give the business a clear, good enough answer quickly and flag real risk when you see it.
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International Exposure: You have some experience with international or EU commercial contract law.
Bonus points:
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Startup Background: You have worked in house at an early or growth stage startup.
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Infrastructure and Cloud Agreements: You have handled agreements specific to enterprise cloud, hosting, or bare metal infrastructure vendors and customers.
About vCluster Labs
We are a venture-backed tech startup and the company pioneering Kubernetes virtualization for the AI era. We raised +$30M from top-tier VCs such as Khosla Ventures (first investor in OpenAI, GitLab, Stripe, Doordash) and are in a hyper-growth phase looking for motivated people to complement our team. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower), but our team is distributed around the globe and we have a remote-first work culture.
We are the leading platform for operating GPU infrastructure, enabling AI Cloud providers to deliver a hyperscaler-like experience to their customers and AI factories that need to build that same experience for their internal teams. Our platform delivers the full operational stack operators need to run their GPU data centers — managed Kubernetes, fast isolated tenant provisioning, and automated node provisioning and lifecycle management — enabling them to accelerate time to value, reduce operational burden, and maximize the ROI of every GPU.
We're the company behind vCluster, an open-source technology for virtualizing Kubernetes (10k+ GitHub stars, 40M+ virtual clusters created since 2021). Open source is part of our DNA. At KubeCon North America 2025