Senior Commercial Counsel
Lyten is leading an industrial revolution through Lyten 3D Graphene™, a breakthrough supermaterial unlocking a new generation of products — from lithium–sulfur batteries and energy storage systems to concrete admixtures, lightweight composites, and next-generation sensors that are revolutionizing industries. Together, these innovations are making a massive global improvement and driving real-world impact across energy, mobility, construction, and defense.
At Lyten, we believe the most meaningful careers begin with purpose — and with people who want to make a difference. We’re not just developing advanced supermaterials — we’re about to change the world as we know it, reshaping how energy is stored, how products are built, and how progress is made.
We’re entering an exciting growth phase, scaling production across the U.S. and Europe and expanding our team of engineers, scientists, and innovators.
Apply now to join our team and be part of something bigger than yourself — where collaboration, creativity, and purpose come together to build the technologies that will define the next century.
Lyten is seeking to hire its first Commercial Counsel to be the lead attorney for the company's commercial contracting function across all of its product groups, including battery, concrete, composites, and sensors. This role will draft, negotiate, and manage the full range of commercial agreements supporting some of Lyten's domestic and international operations.
The successful candidate will work closely with Sales, Procurement, Product, and Engineering to move deals forward efficiently while protecting the company's legal and commercial interests.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as primary commercial counsel advising on contract risk, liability, indemnification, warranty, IP, and termination provisions across customer-facing, enterprise, and OEM agreements.
- Draft, review and negotiate a high volume of commercial agreements, including supply, distribution/reseller, manufacturing/services, purchase orders and vendor contracts.
- Provide practical, business-oriented legal guidance that enables deal velocity while maintaining appropriate risk controls.
- Build out contract templates, playbooks, clause libraries, and workflows, in coordination with paralegal and operations team; drive continuous improvement of the contracting process.
- Advise on export control, trade compliance, and data protection issues arising in commercial agreements, escalating specialized questions to outside counsel as needed.
- Support M&A workstreams as needed.
- Lean into legal matters outside core commercial scope as needed to support the broader legal team given its lean size.
Required Qualifications
- J.D. and active license to practice law in the jurisdiction where the candidate resides.
- Minimum 7 years of legal experience, with time spent on commercial transactions in the technology sector, ideally spanning both in-house and law firms; start-up or high-growth company experience is a plus.
- Excellent drafting, redlining, negotiation, and issue-spotting skills, with the ability to manage multiple contracts and stakeholders at once while keeping deals moving and communicating clearly to non-lawyers.
- Low ego, high accountability, and comfort operating independently in a lean, fast-moving legal function with evolving process and reporting lines.
- Sound business judgment and the ability to distinguish legal issues from commercial issues, communicating risk clearly and practically without over-lawyering.
- Comfort with contract lifecycle activities beyond negotiation, including intake, routing, approvals, signature tracking, repository hygiene, and contract status management.
- Comfort using and implementing AI tools across the contracting lifecycle.
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience supporting both U.S. and EU commercial transactions, with comfort navigating cross-border transactions and a strong awareness of key jurisdictional