Legal Counsel

Role Summary

Higgsfield is seeking a Legal Counsel to serve as a key legal partner to our Sales team.

This role sits within the company's commercial legal function, supporting enterprise sales, strategic partnerships, and other initiatives across a rapidly growing global business. You will also help build and optimize our contracting processes and controls to keep pace with accelerating revenue and business growth.

The ideal candidate is an exceptional, detail-oriented commercial attorney who thrives in fast-paced, demanding environments with a high volume of deals. He or she must intuitively understand how to balance legal risk with business objectives and can communicate guidance in a highly practical way.

THE DEAL

• Competitive salary in USD.
• On-site role in Almaty office.
• Full-time position.

Responsibilities

DRIVE COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS

• Support the negotiation, drafting, and execution of commercial agreements, with a strong focus on enterprise sales agreements.
• Support the Sales and Growth teams across creative initiatives.
• Support international commercial expansion and evolving go-to-market strategies.
• Work closely with our distributed workforce across timezones and legal jurisdictions.

PARTNER WITH BUSINESS TEAMS

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to adapt our sales agreements to reflect our new product launches, features, target clients, and strategic initiatives.
• Support the development and scaling of B2B operations as the company continues to grow.
• Conduct legal research across emerging business areas and provide legal support for new Sales and Marketing initiatives.

BUILD SCALABLE LEGAL INFRASTRUCTURE

• Develop and maintain contract templates, negotiation playbooks, fallback positions, and approval frameworks.
• Improve contracting processes and workflows to increase efficiency and shorten deal cycles.
• Partner with business stakeholders to optimize and scale contract management systems and reporting.
• Monitor legal and regulatory developments impacting AI, digital media, content generation, advertising technology, consumer protection, and enterprise software businesses.

Requirements

• 6-8 years of legal experience, including substantial experience negotiating and advising on commercial transactions.
• Combination of top law firm and in-house experience strongly preferred.
• Exceptional drafting, negotiation, and communication skills.
• Strong business judgment with the ability to provide practical, actionable advice.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and operate independently in a fast-moving, demanding environment. This role will handle a high volume of contracts.
• Collaborative, low-ego, and highly execution-oriented mindset.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience supporting AI, machine learning, creator economy, digital media, advertising technology, or content platforms.
• Experience building commercial legal processes in a high-growth startup environment.
• Familiarity with data privacy, intellectual property, liability assessments, and remedies.
• Substantial experience working with Ironclad strongly preferred.
• Experience advising high-growth technology businesses.

About the Company

WHY WORK AT HIGGSFIELD AI?

We're building at the absolute frontier of AI-powered video creation and next-generation creative tools. Joining Higgsfield means becoming part of a high-impact team shaping the future of AI-native experiences, at a company that isn't just moving fast, but rewriting what fast looks like.