Senior Counsel

Mainspring Energy

Versatile attorney supporting commercial contracts for power generation technology company Mainspring Energy. Collaborating with various teams and vendors, crucial for negotiating agreements, offers strategic legal advice.

Posted 6/7/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $212,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provide thoughtful, risk-balanced, and business-minded advice to internal stakeholders on a wide range of complex contracts, such as equipment and project sale agreements, operation and maintenance contracts, development services agreements, EPC Agreements, financed offerings, and various supporting agreements
Work closely with stakeholders across the company to architect and refine contract forms, templates, and playbooks, as well as scalable processes to support these tools
Partner deeply with Sales, Finance, Project Delivery, Operations and other teams to drive execution of high-stakes commercial agreements
Lead end-to-end contract negotiations for various commercial agreements with customers in the commercial and industrial, data center, governmental, and utility sectors, balancing legal protection with business velocity
Develop and deliver training and other materials to elevate the legal IQ of the organization on contract terms and other legal issues

Requirements

What you’ll need

JD degree and admitted to practice in the U.S
Minimum 8 years of transactional experience (ideally a combination of) global law firm and/or in-house legal department experience, with a mastery of contract drafting and negotiating
Technical Proficiency: Experience with contract management systems and a desire to optimize legal tech stacks and workflows.
Executive Presence: Experience serving as a trusted business partner to senior leaders
Domain Expertise: Comprehensive understanding of complex capital purchase and financed commercial transactions, operation and maintenance agreements, and a strong grasp of the interrelatedness of deal contracts

Benefits

Comp & perks

pre-IPO stock options

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Hard Skills & Tools

contract draftingcontract negotiationtransactional experiencecapital purchase transactionsfinanced commercial transactionsoperation and maintenance agreementslegal protectionbusiness velocitycontract management systemslegal tech optimization

Soft Skills

business-minded advicestakeholder collaborationexecutive presencetrusted business partnertraining developmentcommunication skillsorganizational skillsrisk managementproblem-solvingleadership

Certifications

JD degreeadmitted to practice in the U.S.