What are the responsibilities and job description for the Commercial Counsel position at Rogo?
Why Rogo
At Rogo, we are building Wall Street's first true AI analyst. Our mission is to empower finance professionals at the world’s top investment banks, private equity funds, and investment firms with AI that delivers unparalleled speed, accuracy, and insight. We are not just improving financial workflows; we are redefining them from the ground up.
This is a unique opportunity to join a generational company at a key inflection point. With a rapidly growing 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 the mission. We operate with intensity, 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.
What You’ll Do
At Rogo, we are building Wall Street's first true AI analyst. Our mission is to empower finance professionals at the world’s top investment banks, private equity funds, and investment firms with AI that delivers unparalleled speed, accuracy, and insight. We are not just improving financial workflows; we are redefining them from the ground up.
This is a unique opportunity to join a generational company at a key inflection point. With a rapidly growing 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 the mission. We operate with intensity, 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Exceptional traction: strong PMF with the world's largest investment banks, hedge funds, and private equity firms.
- World-class team: we take talent density seriously. We like working with incredibly smart, driven people.
- Velocity: we work fast, which means you learn a lot and constantly take on more.
- Frontier technology: we're developing cutting-edge AI systems, pushing the boundaries of reinforcement learning and published research, redefining what's possible, and inventing the future.
- Cutting Edge Product: Our platform is state-of-the-art and crazily powerful. We're creating tools that make people smarter, reinventing finance works.