Senior Commercial Counsel - North America

The posting, as Incode Technologies wrote it

POWER A WORLD OF TRUST

Incode is the leading provider of world-class identity solutions that is reinventing the way humans authenticate and verify their identities online to power a world of digital trust.

Through our revolutionary identity solutions, we are unleashing the business potential of universal industries including finance, government, retail, hospitality, gaming, and more, by reducing fraud and transforming human interactions with data, products, and services.

We’re in the process of rapidly scaling our diverse global team and we’re looking for entrepreneurial individuals and leaders who are curious, driven, and excited by ownership to join a Unicorn-status scale-up!

About Incode

Incode is a Series B unicorn ($1.25 B valuation) rewriting how the world proves identity. Our AI-powered platform lets leading banks, fintechs, marketplaces, and governments deliver friction-free experiences while defeating fraud and safeguarding privacy. Customers such as Citi, AirBnB, Block, Chime, Sixt, and TikTok rely on Incode to power their identity verification and security. Recently named a leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Identity Verification, we’re scaling fast—and we need a product-marketing leader who can turn breakthrough technology into a category-defining narrative.

The Impact You'll Have

As our Senior Commercial Counsel, North America , you will own customer-facing commercial contracting across the U.S. and Canada taking deals from inception to signature. You will be the legal partner our Sales, Account Management, and Customer Success teams turn to for fast, commercially minded, risk-balanced negotiation of Proof of Concept (POC) Agreements, Master Services Agreements (MSAs), Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), order forms, renewals, and amendments.

This is a hands-on, high-volume role for a senior commercial lawyer who is energized by closing deals, comfortable as the single point of accountability for a contract, and fluent in the data privacy and regulatory issues that come with selling identity, biometric, and fraud-prevention technology into highly regulated industries. You will work daily with business stakeholders and counterparties, and partner with our Privacy, InfoSec, and Product teams to land agreements that protect Incode while keeping deals moving. Beyond the deal table, you'll counsel Product and Engineering on new products and features and go-to-market, keeping Incode's launches and customer commitments aligned.

What You’ll Own & Drive

Product & Go-To-Market (GTM)

• Advise Product and Engineering teams on new products and features, from design stage through launch and across the full product lifecycle.
• Identify and mitigate legal and regulatory risk across new and existing products and features.
• Monitor evolving privacy, biometric, and AI-related legal and regulatory developments across the U.S. and Canada and proactively flag changes that affect Incode's products or contracting positions.
• Rev

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atutes such as BIPA, and Canadian frameworks including PIPEDA and Québec's Law 25), and the ability to apply it in a commercial contracting context with the support of the Privacy Legal Team.

• Experience supporting customers in highly regulated environments financial services and banking, government/public sector, gaming, gambling, adult entertainment, medical/healthcare, or similar and comfort with the heightened diligence those deals require across the U.S. and Canada.
• Excellent drafting, negotiation, and judgment; able to distinguish must-have protections from nice-to-haves and to take clear positions under deal pressure.
• Highly responsive, organized, and able to manage a high volume of simultaneous deals and stakeholders in a fast-paced, high-growth environment.

The Qualities That Set You Apart

• Qualification to practice law in Canada.
• Experience with CLM tooling and Salesforce.
• Familiarity with identity, biometrics, or fraud-prevention technology.

Aspects of our Culture

• High performance
• Freedom & responsibility
• Context, not control
• Highly aligned, loosely coupled
• Continuous Feedback
• Promotions & Development
• Learn more about Life at Incode !

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible Working Hours & Workplace
• Open Vacation Policy

Equal Opportunities

Incode is an equal opportunity employer, committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment. We take great pride in having an inclusive, diverse, and global team, and we are always looking for talented and passionate individuals from all backgrounds and walks of life. As part of our commitment to inclusion, we ensure that reasonable accommodations are available throughout the hiring process. If you require any accommodation due to a disability or specific need, please let our Talent Acquisition team know—we’ll do our best to support you.

Applicant Data Privacy

We will only use your personal information concerning Incode’s application, recruitment, and hiring processes.