[Remote] Commercial Legal Lead

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mantel Capture, Inc is developing innovative molten-salt-based carbon capture technology aimed at achieving net-negative emissions. The Senior Commercial Counsel will manage the company's contracts function, drafting and negotiating various agreements while contributing to commercial strategy and deal structuring.

Responsibilities

• Own Mantel's commercial contracts end-to-end: draft, negotiate, and close MSAs, NDAs, engineering service agreements, term sheets, licensing agreements, offtake agreements, strategic supply agreements, strategic partnership agreements and project-level commercial contracts
• Take and defend clear positions on representations and warranties, indemnification, liability caps, IP ownership & governance, and dispute resolution - and know when to hold firm and when to negotiate
• Develop and maintain standard form agreements and negotiation playbooks that keep Mantel's contracting process efficient and consistent
• Maintain a clean contracts repository and ensure Mantel's obligations, rights, and key dates are tracked and enforced
• Develop and manage external counsel relationships where specialized expertise is needed, keeping scope and cost tight
• Contribute to the strategic framing of commercial deals, not just the legal terms, but the structure, risk allocation, and commercial logic behind them
• Help Mantel build scalable commercial structures as the company moves from demonstration to full deployment
• Support due diligence processes for partnerships, project financing, and government grants
• Serve as a trusted, accessible internal legal resource across the organization - fast, practical, and easy to work with
• Work closely with the commercial, engineering, and finance teams to understand the deals Mantel is pursuing and the legal risks that actually matter
• Draft and negotiate term sheets that set the right commercial and legal foundation before full agreements are executed
• Own Mantel's licensing strategy from a contracts and legal perspective — understanding how IP rights, exclusivity provisions, grant-back clauses, and royalty structures interact with commercial objectives
• Identify and push back on terms that create undue legal risk or limit Mantel's flexibility as the business scales

Skills

• 5+ years of transactional legal experience, in private practice or in-house at a technology, energy, or industrial company
• Law degree required
• Experience negotiating real commercial contracts
• Ability to take a position, defend it, and close deals
• Ability to give practical advice that moves deals forward and is solution oriented
• Genuine curiosity about carbon capture, industrial decarbonization, and the commercial landscape Mantel is operating in
• Comfortable being Mantel's primary legal voice on commercial matters in a company where the legal function is still being built
• Startup or early-stage company experience or exposure is a strong asset

Benefits

• Highly competitive pay based on experience, including equity
• 90% subsidized medical and dental healthcare coverage for employees, 50% for dependents
• Unlimited vacation policy, mental health personal days, generous sick leave, plus a week-long winter break at the end of December
• Health/Fitness and cell phone stipend
• Paid parental leave

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