Head of Legal, Commercial

About OLIX AI is growing faster than any technology in history and the explosion in demand has created a massive infrastructure gap; we can no longer build chips or power stations fast enough to keep up. The industry is still leaning on a ten-year-old hardware blueprint that has reached its limit. A new paradigm that is faster and more efficient will be the biggest economic opportunity of the next century and create the most important company of the next decade. The OLIX Decode Accelerator 1 (DX-1) is the first accelerator architected specifically for decode. Rack-scale co-design of logic, data movement, packaging, optics and interconnect enables a step change in system level performance. The Role We are hiring our Head of Legal, Commercial to lead and scale the commercial legal function at OLIX. Reporting to the Chief Legal Officer, you will own commercial contracting end to end as OLIX moves from a small legal team to a function that supports a rapidly scaling business. You will be the lead lawyer on some of our most important projects and largest and most complex deals, the person the business comes to to help them make clear and quick risk decisions and, as the company grows, you will have the opportunity to recruit team members. You will define the playbooks, standards, and tooling that let OLIX scale faster than legal headcount. This is a player-coach role for a technically excellent, experienced lawyer who wants to own a function in an environment accelerating and changing quickly, work hands-on with engineers and commercial leaders, and shape how commercial legal works at one of the most ambitious deep-tech companies in Europe. You will not be sitting above the work. You will be leading the toughest negotiations yourself, making judgement calls where the law, the facts, and the commercial picture are all still moving, and building the team that handles everything else. OLIX moves quickly, priorities shift, and there is often no precedent to lean on. You need to have worked in an environment like this before, or be able to show you would thrive in one. Open to UK-based candidates and US-qualified attorneys willing to relocate to London. We provide full visa sponsorship and relocation support. Responsibilities Lead the commercial legal function end to end: strategy, team, deal flow, tooling, and standards. Personally lead negotiations on OLIX’s largest and most complex commercial deals, including customer agreements with hyperscalers, manufacturing, and other supply chain agreements with contract manufacturing partners, NREs, JDAs, technology licences, and strategic partnerships. Build and scale the commercial legal team as OLIX grows. You will be hands-on as the main lawyer on your own projects from day one and, in time, hire, develop, and line-manage additional team members. Set commercial legal standards, playbooks, fallback positions, and templates across the function. Working with the CLO, make risk decisions, and help the business make them. Cut through ambiguity, frame legal and commercial risk in plain terms, recommend a position, and own the call, including where the facts, the law, or the commercial context are developing and moving quickly. Design and build scalable legal workflows using AI tooling and automation, so the legal function scales faster than headcount. Integrate AI deeply into day-to-day contracting: triage, first-pass review, redline generation, clause extraction, precedent search, and playbook enforcement. Set OLIX’s positions on key commercial terms including liability caps, indemnities, IP ownership and licensing, data protection, warranties, termination, and service levels. Own the IP dimension of commercial work: structure and negotiate IP ownership, background and foreground IP, licensing, confidentiality, and know-how provisions in JDAs, NREs, and manufacturing and supply arrangements, working closely with engineering and IP counsel to protect OLIX’s core tech