Senior Commercial Counsel - North America

United States

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!

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 Tik Tok 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.

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 counter parties, and partner with our Privacy, Info Sec, 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.

• 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.
• Review and approve product-related marketing and external communications, with a focus on consumer protection, unfair/deceptive practices, and privacy posture.
• Act as the trusted, responsive legal partner to Sales, Account Management, and Customer Success setting expectations, communicating ETAs, and unblocking deals against quarter-end and go-live timelines.
• Translate complex legal and privacy concepts into practical guidance business teams can act on and elevate novel or high-risk issues to the General Counsel with a clear recommendation.
• Integrate emerging AI governance and AI-ethics frameworks into responsible product development.
• Develop deep fluency in Incode's proprietary technology and product architecture to provide…