What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vice President, Commercial & Privacy position at cerebrassystems?
Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip, 56 times larger than GPUs. Our novel wafer-scale architecture provides the AI compute power of dozens of GPUs on a single chip, with the programming simplicity of a single device. This approach allows Cerebras to deliver industry-leading training and inference speeds and empowers machine learning users to effortlessly run large-scale ML applications, without the hassle of managing hundreds of GPUs or TPUs.
Cerebras' current customers include global corporations across multiple industries, national labs, and top-tier healthcare systems. In January, we announced a multi-year, multi-million-dollar partnership with Mayo Clinic, underscoring our commitment to transforming AI applications across various fields. In August, we launched Cerebras Inference, the fastest Generative AI inference solution in the world, over 10 times faster than GPU-based hyperscale cloud inference services.
About The Role
As VP, Commercial & Privacy at Cerebras, you will negotiate high-impact commercial transactions supporting our global revenue team, as well as our procurement, engineering and information security functions. You will also own and scale our privacy compliance program as we expand globally. This role is pivotal to enabling scalable enterprise growth and ensuring legal integrity across complex, fast-evolving deal structures. You’ll work closely with cross-functional teams—including sales, product, engineering, and procurement—to close deals while managing risk.
As part of a team that supports cutting-edge AI and cloud technologies, you’ll help shape the legal frameworks that underpin our enterprise offerings. Your work will directly influence how we deliver value to customers and partners, ensuring that our contracts are not only compliant and enforceable, but also aligned with strategic business goals. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to transformative deals and help operationalize legal strategy in a high-growth environment.
Executives are in-office, which enables critical business knowledge and organizational decisions in a fast-paced environment. So, this attorney will be required to join their colleagues in-office to maximize success in the role.
Responsibilities
- Lead, structure and negotiate the company’s most significant revenue and vendor agreements, including enterprise revenue contracts and strategic partnerships with major cloud and infrastructure providers.
- Support global sales and revenue teams on AI compute services agreements, including licensing, data use, and performance SLAs.
- Develop and drive legal strategy for cloud inference, SaaS, and hardware integration transactions, enabling scalable enterprise growth.
- Partner with engineering, product, procurement, and information security teams to align deal structures with business and technical objectives.
- Oversee privacy, product, and commercial compliance across the company’s AI and cloud offerings, including issues relating to international expansion.
- Lead and mentor a small commercial legal team, fostering professional growth and alignment with company goals.
- Build and refine legal operations systems, templates, playbooks, and negotiation frameworks to accelerate deal execution and consistency.
- Collaborate with senior leadership on cross functional projects, including IPO readiness.
Skills & Qualifications
- 12 years of combined law firm and in-house experience, including significant leadership of complex commercial and technology transactions.
- Deep familiarity with cloud computing, AI infrastructure, and enterprise technology deal structures, as well as international data privacy, information security and procurement issues.
- Proven ability to manage high-value, multi-stakeholder transactions across enterprise and public-sector clients.
- Exceptional commercial judgment and confidence advising C-suite executives and business leaders.
- Experience managing and developing attorneys or commercial legal teams.
- Skilled at balancing risk and business priorities in a fast-moving, high-growth environment.
- Exposure to data, privacy, or procurement issues preferred.
- D. and active bar membership required (California preferred).
The targeted base compensation range is $280,000 to $325,000, with a generous bonus and equity. Individual total compensation will depend on the candidate’s seniority and directly relevant experience.
Why Join Cerebras
People who are serious about software make their own hardware. At Cerebras we have built a breakthrough architecture that is unlocking new opportunities for the AI industry. With dozens of model releases and rapid growth, we’ve reached an inflection point in our business. Members of our team tell us there are five main reasons they joined Cerebras:
- Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
- Publish and open source their cutting-edge AI research.
- Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
- Enjoy job stability with startup vitality.
- Our simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.
Read our blog: Five Reasons to Join Cerebras in 2025.
Apply today and become part of the forefront of groundbreaking advancements in AI!
Cerebras Systems is committed to creating an equal and diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate different backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We believe inclusive teams build better products and companies. We try every day to build a work environment that empowers people to do their best work through continuous learning, growth and support of those around them.
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