Ambient.ai is a computer vision intelligence company revolutionizing enterprise security by preventing incidents before they occur. With a global presence and F500 clients, Ambient AI enhances physical security by using AI and computer vision to detect real-time threats through existing camera infrastructure. It reduces false alarms by over 95%, enabling security teams to focus on real threats. The future of security is data-driven, intelligent, and proactive, allowing companies to improve their security posture while doing more with less.
Founded in 2017 by Shikhar Shrestha and Vikesh Khanna. Ambient AI is a growth-stage company backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), SV Angel, YCombinator, and investment angels like Jyoti Bansal, Mark Leslie, and Elad Gil.
Named on the YC Top Companies List 2021, 2022, 2023, and the Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars, we are turning the impossible into the inevitable. We always seek passionate people who enjoy solving the toughest problems with cutting-edge AI/ML.
Position Overview
We are seeking an Attorney to serve as our Contract Counsel or Contract Manager to drive our contracting efforts with our enterprise customers. You’ll be the go-to expert for complex commercial contracts, especially in the exciting and ever-evolving enterprise SaaS landscape, shaping the legal framework that supports our company’s growth and innovation.
The impact you’ll make:
- Owns Ambient’s commercial contracting with corporate customers, including MSAs, Data Processing, Order Forms, NDAs, and channel agreements
- Act as a liaison between legal, sales, finance, product, and other departments, ensuring all parties are aligned and informed on contractual obligations and key terms
- Lead negotiations with a broad range of Enterprise customers, balancing expansive growth of our internal needs with risk considerations
The amazing skills you’ll bring to Ambient.ai:
- 5+ years of contracts experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating Enterprise Saas contracts in a professional environment
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken, is essential, with a strong emphasis on grammar, clarity, and accuracy in all communications
- Enjoys negotiation and brings creative pragmatism to balancing company risk with contract velocity
- Builds strong relationships with legal and procurement teams, finding common ground quickly
- Sharp and meticulous, you learn fast and know when to escalate issues to the CFO or external counsel
- Comfortable navigating both customer-provided and Ambient’s own MSA and DPA documents
- You’re a builder at heart, improving processes and creating scalable legal operations and playbooks
- You thrive in dynamic environments, making yourself invaluable through your ability to adapt and contribute
- Excited to be the first member of our legal team, with ample opportunities for growth and special projects
Why join us:
- We are creating an entirely new category within a 120+ billion-dollar physical security industry and looking for team members who are also passionate about our mission to prevent every security incident possible
- We have an impressive customer roster of F500 companies, including Adobe, VMware, and SentinelOne
- Enjoy a full range of opportunities to connect with your awesome co-workers
What We Do
Ambient.ai is a computer vision intelligence company transforming enterprise security operations to prevent security incidents before they happen. The Ambient.ai platform applies AI and computer vision intelligence to existing sensor and camera infrastructure to deliver continuous physical security monitoring and automate the immediate dispatch of human resources. Ambient.ai is the first platform that goes beyond basic motion detection and image recognition to achieve near-human perception with automated situational context.
With physical security incidents on the rise and physical security organizations left under-resourced, Ambient.ai’s computer intelligence platform comes at a time of critical need, which is why the company has raised over $50 million from venture capital investors led by a16z. Today, large enterprises, schools and organizations – including many of the largest US tech companies and other Fortune 500 companies – use Ambient.ai to secure property, people, and assets from the most harrowing physical security threats.
The company was founded in 2017 by experts in artificial intelligence from Stanford who previously built iconic products at Apple, Google, Microsoft and Dropbox. We are backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), SV Angel, Y Combinator, and visionary angels like Jyoti Bansal, Mark Leslie and Elad Gil.
