Commercial Counsel

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>We're transforming the grocery industry</strong></p> <p><span class="im">At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.</span></p> <p>Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we’re building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you’re ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.</p> <p><strong>Instacart is a Flex First team </strong></p> <p>There’s no one-size fits all approach to how we do our best work. Our employees have the flexibility to choose where they do their best work—whether it’s from home, an office, or your favorite coffee shop—while staying connected and building community through regular in-person events. <a href="https://instacart.careers/remote/" target="_blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://instacart.careers/remote/source=gmailust=1651869232122000usg=AOvVaw37OlxP8hAKN7nq4YwHQH7e">Learn more about our flexible approach to where we work.</a></p></div><p> </p> <p><strong>Overview </strong></p> <p>As Commercial Counsel, you’ll work closely with teams like business development, partnerships, product, and operations to help solve thorny legal problems and enable the business to scale and grow. You’ll be drafting and negotiating a wide variety of commercial arrangements with partners including retailer, partnerships, and vendor agreements. </p> <p>You’ll also provide sound legal advice to business partners with respect to commercial terms and business strategy. You’ll need to be proactive and engaged, able to work well cross-functionally both internally and externally, excited about technology and e-commerce, and ready to roll your sleeves up and dig into tough legal problems to reach a creative solution.</p> <p>We're looking for an attorney who is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with broad responsibilities. You must have the ability to operate independently and work proactively with various teams across the organization. </p> <p>Every day we solve incredibly hard problems to create an experience for our customer that is absolutely magical. Join us!</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>About the Job</strong></p> <ul> <li>Draft, negotiate, and implement major partner agreements, across all areas of the business </li> <li>Provide strategic and legal advice to your internal business clients </li> <li>Lead and take charge of special legal projects from start to finish </li> <li>Implement best practices for integrating AI into your work </li> <li>Remain up-to-date on relevant industry, advertising, competition, IP, consumer protection, the gig economy, international, and privacy laws and regulations to ensure an ongoing ability to provide sound compliance advice</li> <li>Draft terms, policies, and disclosures, and create and implement related processes</li> <li>Advise internal clients on the application of executed agreements </li> <li>Create and update our form legal agreements </li> <li>Train clients and colleagues on various legal issues</li> <li>Think ahead, see around corners, and help to prepare for legal issues that may arise in the future</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>About You</strong></p> <p>We rely on our <a href="https://careers.instacart.com/">values</a> to guide our decisions: Solve for the Customer, Every Minute Counts, This is Your Baby, Go Far, Together and Of Course, But Maybe. What does this mean for your role? We are looking for someone who has:</p> <p class="p1">Minimum Qualifications</p> <ul> <li>A J.D. from a top-tier law ... (truncated, view full listing at source)