Legal, Partnerships & Strategic Transactions

Baseten
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: HybridFull timeUSD 275,000 - 350,000 annuallyFunction: Business Development & PartnershipsExperience: 8+ yearsEducation: professionalSkills: ["Clear communication","Structural thinking","Commercial grounding","Builder mentality","Technical fluency"]

Lead the legal workstream for Baseten’s model-lab relationships, including distribution agreements, hosted API/early access arrangements, and token/capacity commitments. Structure strategic platform and channel deals with hyperscalers and enterprise partners, and build frameworks for open-weight and custom model licenses across deployment models. Serve as the legal voice on licensing interpretation, indemnity/risk allocation, and cross-border compliance, partnering with regulatory, policy, and security teams while supporting M&A diligence.

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Legal, Partnerships & Strategic Transactions

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Job Summary

Lead the legal workstream for Baseten’s model-lab relationships, including distribution agreements, hosted API/early access arrangements, and token/capacity commitments. Structure strategic platform and channel deals with hyperscalers and enterprise partners, and build frameworks for open-weight and custom model licenses across deployment models. Serve as the legal voice on licensing interpretation, indemnity/risk allocation, and cross-border compliance, partnering with regulatory, policy, and security teams while supporting M&A diligence.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Business Development & Partnerships
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead the legal workstream for model lab relationships, including distribution agreements, hosted API/early access arrangements, token/capacity commitments, and related renegotiations.
  • •Lead strategic platform and channel deals such as hyperscaler marketplace/gateway agreements, white label/reseller structures, co-sell/referrals, and enterprise partnerships.
  • •Build and own licensing frameworks for open weight and custom model licenses, including deployment-model application, customer confirmations, and indemnity boundaries.
  • •Engage directly with customer counsel on licensing interpretation, attribution/threshold mechanics, and responsibility allocation among Baseten, the lab, and the customer.
  • •Advise leadership on channel strategy and conflicts (exclusivity, information flow, and structural protections) and partner on cross-border compliance dimensions of partnership paper.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 275,000 - 350,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVisionParental Leave401kFertility Stipend

Key Requirements

  • •JD and active bar membership in good standing.
  • •8+ years of technology transactions or partnerships experience, including meaningful in-house time leading partnership, licensing, or platform deals at an AI, cloud, or developer infrastructure company.
  • •Deep familiarity with open source and open weight model licenses, including custom licenses, and the ability to interpret them across deployment models.
  • •Experience structuring strategic partnerships where counterparties are also customers or competitors (channel, reseller, marketplace, co-sell).
  • •Direct experience allocating IP and indemnity risk in AI or platform agreements and explaining that allocation to sophisticated counterparties.
Experience:8+ yearsAICloudDeveloper infrastructureOpen sourceOpen weight modelsML startups
Education:Professional (JD, MD, etc.)
Skills:Clear communicationStructural thinkingCommercial groundingBuilder mentalityTechnical fluency
Licenses:Active bar membership

Company Brief

Baseten
Baseten provides an inference-first ML infrastructure platform that lets engineering and ML teams deploy, serve, and scale machine-learning models with optimized performance, autoscaling, and GPU-backed hosting for production AI applications. ([crunchbase.com](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/baseten?utm_source=openai))
Industry: AI & Machine Learning
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2019
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