About the role
<h2><strong>About Black Forest Labs</strong></h2> <p>We're the team behind Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX—foundational technologies that changed how the world creates images and video. We’re creating the generative models that power how people make images and video—tools used by millions of creators, developers, and businesses worldwide. Our FLUX models are among the most advanced in the world, and we're just getting started.</p> <p>Headquartered in Freiburg, Germany with a growing presence in San Francisco, we're scaling fast while staying true to what makes us different: research excellence, open science, and building technology that expands human creativity.</p> <h2><strong>Why This Role</strong></h2> <p>We are looking for a sharp, motivated, and commercially minded Commercial Counsel to join BFL's legal team. You will support a broad range of commercial transactions spanning our US and EU go-to-market deals, with the majority of deal volume in the United States. This is a high-ownership role in which you will draft and review agreements, lead negotiations, and serve as a trusted advisor to the business on all things commercial.</p> <p>This is an exciting opportunity for a lawyer who wants to work at the cutting edge of AI — advising on novel agreement structures for foundational generative AI models, negotiating complex licensing and API deals, and helping build the legal and commercial infrastructure of a high-growth company.</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Work On</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Draft and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, including API licensing, enterprise SaaS, model access and deployment, partnerships, vendor agreements, and NDAs</li> <li>Support US and EU commercial transactions, with a primary focus on US deals across a variety of industry verticals, and advise on matters of German corporate law</li> <li>Partner closely with the GTM, Marketing, FDE, Infrastructure, and Finance teams to provide practical, deal-enabling legal guidance</li> <li>Advise on AI-specific legal considerations, including IP ownership and licensing, training data rights, and evolving regulatory requirements for generative AI</li> <li>Develop and maintain scalable legal frameworks, contract templates, playbooks, and approval workflows</li> <li>Engage with outside counsel on complex or specialized matters and manage those relationships efficiently</li> <li>Contribute to company-wide compliance and legal operations initiatives as the legal team scales</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What We’re Looking For</strong></h2> <ul> <li>7+ years of legal experience, with time spent on commercial transactions in the technology sector; ideally spanning both in-house and external firms. Star