Array Labs

Array Labs

Senior Commercial Counsel

Redwood City, CA · Senior · Full-time

Work authorization required$265k-$280kDetected 20 days ago
ComplianceBusiness DevelopmentNegotiationSupply ChainCompensationCorporate LawHardware DesignSensorsPublic Speaking

About the role

  • Traditional satellite sensing is slow, expensive, and hard to use.
  • About the Job Array Labs is looking for our first internal legal hire who is ready to step into a true zero-to-one environment.
  • Rather than functioning as a traditional gatekeeper, you will act as a strategic advisor and enabler who helps us solve complex business problems while appropriately calibrating risk.

Responsibilities

  • Partner hand-in-hand with the business development and sales teams to draft, review, and negotiate commercial contracts.
  • You will take the lead on structuring agreements across our core revenue streams: imagery and data licensing, radar hardware, and payloads.
  • Help build our commercial legal function from the ground up.
  • You will draft standard templates, establish scalable contracting processes, and work with capture teams to develop negotiation playbooks that will serve as the foundation for the company's long-term legal infrastructure.
  • Stay curious, collaborate openly, push boundaries as one team

Requirements

  • Experience with government contracting is highly desirable.
  • You have a track record of offering constructive solutions that find a way to "yes" without compromising critical legal protections.
  • Familiarity with the regulatory and IP landscape governing hardware development, with experience directing external counsel on IP and compliance matters ensuring legal strategy remains aligned with operational realities.
  • Prior legal experience in aerospace, satellite, or Earth observation, with a particular emphasis on commercializing geospatial data or Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) products.
  • Experience operating within a high-growth, venture-backed environment, including supporting corporate governance and venture financing rounds in close coordination with outside corporate counsel.

Nice to have

  • Preferred Skills & Experience

Compensation

  • find uncommonly good people and pay them uncommonly well.
  • We offer high flexibility between salary and equity-based compensation.
  • Equity is a significant component of total compensation, and we aim to provide meaningful ownership for this role.
  • Final candidates can choose from three compensation mixes: low, medium, or high equity.

Benefits

  • low, medium, or high equity.
  • Full-time employees also enjoy a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, a 401(k) with company match, commuter benefits, and more.

Company info

  • Array Labs makes the physical world easier to understand. We build the satellites, software, and analytics that help commercial, government, and military users know what is happening across Earth and space.
  • Traditional satellite sensing is slow, expensive, and hard to use. Array is different. We're developing a coordinated fleet of radar satellites to create dynamic understanding of the Earth at any given moment, in all weather, day and night.
  • We design and build our satellites end-to-end, from the hardware in orbit to our data processing and analytics software on the ground, so that defense, disaster response, infrastructure, and commercial operators can act with greater speed, confidence, and precision.
  • About the Job
  • Array Labs is looking for our first internal legal hire who is ready to step into a true zero-to-one environment.
  • You will partner directly with our business development and sales teams to help structure and close agreements across our diverse business lines, including imagery and data licensing, radar hardware/payload sales, and government contracting.
  • In addition to deal work, you will build out our foundational legal infrastructure and serve as the central liaison for our specialized outside counsel.
  • Array Labs makes the physical world easier to understand.
  • We build the satellites, software, and analytics that help commercial, government, and military users know what is happening across Earth and space.
  • Array is different.
  • We're developing a coordinated fleet of radar satellites to create dynamic understanding of the Earth at any given moment, in all weather, day and night.
  • Create technology that serves customers and advances humanity

Equal opportunity

  • Employer
  • Array Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made on the basis of merit, competence, and job qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by gender, color, race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, religion, age, gender identity, veteran status, disability status, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.
  • If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, please let us know.
  • Array Labs is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U
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