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Rogo

Commercial Counsel

Rogo is hiring a Commercial Counsel in New York, United States. It pays $190k-$230k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Rogo.

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  • Level rates this role Little AI ●○○○: aI is not part of the work.
  • Tools and skills the posting cites include Legal Tech, contract negotiation and commercial law.
  • Level classifies it as a senior role.
  • Level lists 100 other open roles at Rogo.

AI in this role

Lead commercial contracting, negotiations, and legal infrastructure for a financial AI platform company.

Legal Tech
contract-negotiationcommercial-lawip-licensingprivacy

Why Rogo

Our mission is to transform global finance by empowering professionals at the world's top investment banks, private equity funds, and investment firms with AI that delivers unparalleled speed, accuracy, and insight. We're not just improving financial workflows; we're redefining them.

This is a unique opportunity to join a generational company driving transformation in one of the most important industries in the world. With a rapidly growing, global client base, proven product-market fit, and backing from world-class investors, we are scaling quickly and defining a new category of enterprise AI.

Our team is sharp, motivated, and deeply committed to Rogo’s mission. We take ownership of complex problems and stay relentlessly focused on our users. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, demand excellence, and want to help build the future of finance, we invite you to join us.

The Role

Rogo is hiring a Commercial Counsel to partner with our Head of Legal and scale the company’s contracting function. This is a high‑impact role for a business-minded attorney who’s able to work independently and build the legal infrastructure that enables Rogo to scale with speed and consistency.


What You’ll Do

  • Advise stakeholders on legal issues and concepts.

  • Lead end-to-end negotiations of high-value MSAs and other commercial agreements with major banks and financial institutions.

  • Own negotiations with data and content providers, including data‑licensing and partnership agreements.

  • Partner closely with the Sales, Product, Security and Operations teams to structure business-aligned agreements and translate complex legal concepts into clear, actionable guidance.

  • Implement and manage Rogo’s commercial contracting infrastructure: operationalize legal tech tools to increase efficiency and design negotiation templates, playbooks and approval workflows.

  • Partner with the Head of Legal on high-impact strategic initiatives.

What You’ll Need

  • Must be licensed to practice law in at least one jurisdiction.

  • A JD from a top law school and 3–6 years of legal experience, with a strong preference for top-tier law firm training in a technology transactions, IP or emerging companies practice group and/or in-house experience at a high-growth SaaS, data or AI company.

  • Demonstrated experience owning and closing commercial agreements independently and strong working knowledge of IP licensing, privacy, data-use rights and AI.

  • Prior experience implementing and managing legal tech tools and enthusiasm about building scalable systems and processes from scratch.

  • Genuine interest in new technologies, software and finance.

  • Sound commercial judgment and comfort making decisions in a fast‑moving start-up environment.

Who You Are

  • You thrive in fast-paced environments. You are high-intensity and care a lot about what you do, and you're ecstatic to work at a startup.

  • You are ambitious. You have fun solving problems that others think are impossible.

  • You are curious. You find joy in learning about AI, technology, and finance.

  • You are an owner. You are autonomous, self-directed, and comfortable working with ambiguity.

  • You are collaborative, organized, thoughtful, and kind.

Who You Are

  • You are curious. You find joy in learning about AI, technology, and finance.

  • You are collaborative, organized, thoughtful, and kind.

Why Join Rogo?

  • Up and to the right: Rogo has strong product adoption with the world's leading financial institutions, and we are still early. The upside is enormous.

  • Extraordinary team: we take talent density seriously. You'll do the best work of your career alongside some of the sharpest people in AI and finance.

  • A one-of-one problem: bringing AI to the core of how Wall Street works is one of the most ambitious, technically demanding, and consequential problems today. There is nowhere else you can work on it at this scale.

  • Real ownership: You'll own real surface area and watch the world's most sophisticated users rely on your work.

  • Always at the frontier: we work at the edge of what the best models can do and turn it into products people trust. If you're obsessed with AI, this is where it's happening.

How we rate this

Commercial Counsel at Rogo rates 10 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

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Contract NegotiationCommercial LawIp LicensingPrivacyLegal Tech

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  1. Tell me about a project where contract negotiation was part of your work. What did you do?
  2. Tell me about a project where commercial law was part of your work. What did you do?
  3. Tell me about a project where ip licensing was part of your work. What did you do?
  4. Tell me about a project where privacy was part of your work. What did you do?
  5. Walk me through how you've used Legal Tech in your day-to-day work.

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