Commercial Counsel

About the role

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Why us?

Insurify is one of America's fastest-growing MIT FinTech startups and has been recognized as one of Inc. 5,000's fastest-growing private companies in America in 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021, Forbes Fintech 50 List for 2023, 2022, and 2021, Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups of 2022 global and Top 100 InsurTech company. We're changing the way millions of people compare, buy and manage insurance with artificial intelligence, technology, and superior product design.

Our company vision is to be recognized as the preeminent and most trusted digital agent for insurance comparison, purchase, and management. Our team is critical to achieving our vision and fostering the right culture is essential to our team's success.

Join us if you like

• $1.3 Trillion market opportunity
• MIT alumni founders
• Female-led startup
• $130M total funding
• Strong leadership team with experience from many successful startups around the world

Insurify is scaling its legal function to keep pace with its growth. The Commercial Counsel is a generalist attorney who serves as Legal's subject-matter expert across commercial, marketing, and product: owning commercial contracting end-to-end, embedding with Marketing on advertising and consumer-protection compliance, and partnering with Product on feature launches and tools before they ship.

This role requires candidates to work on a hybrid schedule out of our Cambridge, MA office.

How you will make an impact

• Draft, review, and negotiate SaaS, insurance carrier, agency, and vendor agreements, owning the deal desk queue end-to-end.
• Serve as embedded legal counsel to Marketing, providing guidance on advertising, marketing, and consumer-protection compliance.
• Serve as embedded legal counsel to Product, reviewing new features and AI-driven quoting/underwriting tools pre-launch.
• Structure and negotiate distribution and partnership agreements, including carrier appointments, affiliate/lead-generation arrangements, and white-label distribution.
• Review consumer-facing marketing collateral, advertising claims, and rate/quote disclosures for compliance with state consumer-protection and unfair-or-deceptive-practices statutes.
• Build and maintain a contract playbook and template library, and lead rollout and administration of the company's CLM platform.
• Serve as Legal's generalist point of contact for day-to-day commercial, marketing, and product risk guidance across the business.

This is a hybrid position that requires candidates to be able to come into our Cambridge, MA office.

Who you are

• J.D. and active bar membership in good standing.
• 4-8 years of relevant experience, with significant in-house or transactional experience preferred.
• Demonstrated track record negotiating commercial, SaaS, and vendor agreements independently.
• Working familiarity with state consumer-protection and unfair-trade-practice laws.
• Strong drafting, negotiation, and business judgment; comfortable operating with minimal oversight in a fast-moving environment.
• Comfortable working as a generalist across multiple business functions and prioritizing across competing demands.
• Excellent cross-functional communication skills, with the ability to explain legal risk in business terms to Commercial, Marketing, and Product stakeholders.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Generous stock options
• Health, Dental Coverages
• 401K plan with match
• Unlimited PTO
• Generous company holiday calendar
• Learning & Development Stipends
• Paid Family Leave
• Social impact volunteer time
• Catered lunches in the office

Insurify is committed to offering a fair, competitive, and transparent compensation program that supports our mission to attract, retain, and motivate top talent. Our compensation philosophy is guided by several factors including a candidate's relevant experience, education/training, job-related skills, and location.

In addition to the base salary our total compensation package includes health coverage, retirement contributions, and additional wellbeing benefits. Some positions may be eligible for company equity.

Below is the base compensation range candidates working out Cambridge, MA:

$132,000-$155,000 plus bonus and equity