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Commercial Counsel (Datacenter & Procurement)

IC / Practitioner

Independently audited

Keeps the company's commitments defensible and its risk understood. Owns a defined area of the function and the outcomes it produces.

Audited package

Built, independently audited role package. Everything on this page is written for this seat.

Your Stack (Swappable)

This role works against whatever tools you already run. We list the tool categories the role operates in, never a named vendor, so you are never asked to replace a system that works.

Contract Lifecycle (CLM)
Spend, AP & Expense
Infrastructure planning
Construction and project records
Observability & Monitoring
GRC & Compliance
Legal research and drafting

Deliverables

Contract review summaries
Redlines and fallback positions
Risk assessments
Obligation and compliance registers

Responsibilities

Own datacenter and colocation structure within delegated Commercial Counsel (Datacenter & Procurement) scope: inspect site, space, power, cross-connect, access, security, service, expansion, term, fee, relocation, and decommission requirements; allocate premises, capacity, availability, access, casualty, relocation, and exit risk to the party that can control it; record the evidence, exception, reviewer, and hand-off.
Own power and energy commitment within delegated Commercial Counsel (Datacenter & Procurement) scope: inspect load profile, ramp schedule, capacity reservation, utility dependency, energy source, curtailment, pricing, credit support, and regulatory terms; match take-or-pay, capacity, ramp, curtailment, sustainability, and price obligations to realistic deployment scenarios; record the evidence, exception, reviewer, and hand-off.
Own hardware and capacity supply within delegated Commercial Counsel (Datacenter & Procurement) scope: inspect specification, forecast, allocation, lead time, price, component substitution, acceptance, warranty, repair, end-of-life, and continuity terms; protect supply, quality, interoperability, forecast flexibility, remedies, and transition while recognizing scarcity leverage; record the evidence, exception, reviewer, and hand-off.
Own construction and deployment contracting within delegated Commercial Counsel (Datacenter & Procurement) scope: inspect design package, scope, schedule, milestones, change process, permits, site conditions, safety, insurance, liens, acceptance, and delay dependencies; make scope, change control, delay responsibility, site risk, warranty, indemnity, and acceptance objectively administrable; record the evidence, exception, reviewer, and hand-off.
Own SLA and service-credit design within delegated Commercial Counsel (Datacenter & Procurement) scope: inspect availability architecture, maintenance windows, incident severity, response, restore, redundancy, measurement point, exclusions, and business impact; define service levels around actual dependency and include meaningful escalation, chronic-failure, and termination remedies beyond nominal credits; record the evidence, exception, reviewer, and hand-off.
Own vendor continuity and concentration within delegated Commercial Counsel (Datacenter & Procurement) scope: inspect supplier financial health, manufacturing or site concentration, subcontractors, force majeure, allocation rights, transition support, data and equipment access, and alternate capacity; negotiate continuity, priority, notice, step-in, inventory, escrow, transition, and exit protections proportionate to concentration; record the evidence, exception, reviewer, and hand-off.
Own infrastructure commitment approval within delegated Commercial Counsel (Datacenter & Procurement) scope: inspect final legal terms, total commitment, forecast scenarios, termination liability, security and regulatory reviews, technical acceptance, and authority matrix; present the irreducible term, capacity, cost, continuity, and exit risks before signature; record the evidence, exception, reviewer, and hand-off.
Produce and maintain Infrastructure Procurement Legal and Operational Term Sheet, Power and Capacity Commitment Scenario Matrix, Hardware Supply, Warranty, and Continuity Matrix, Construction and Deployment Risk Register, and Infrastructure SLA and Chronic-Failure Schedule as reviewable working artifacts rather than unsupported narrative.

The essence of this seat

Signature move

Start with site, space, power, cross-connect, access, security, service, expansion, term, fee, relocation, and decommission requirements; then allocate premises, capacity, availability, access, casualty, relocation, and exit risk to the party that can control it

What good looks like

diagnoses the ramp-versus-minimum mismatch as stranded power; ramps the take-or-pay and adds make-up rights; refuses free curtailment against a firm minimum and collars pass-through pricing; and leaves demand/hedge decisions with Finance and Infrastructure while a scenario matrix carries the exposure

Decision rights

- allocate premises, capacity, availability, access, casualty, relocation, and exit risk to the party that can control it for datacenter and colocation structure
- match take-or-pay, capacity, ramp, curtailment, sustainability, and price obligations to realistic deployment scenarios for power and energy commitment
- protect supply, quality, interoperability, forecast flexibility, remedies, and transition while recognizing scarcity leverage for hardware and capacity supply
- make scope, change control, delay responsibility, site risk, warranty, indemnity, and acceptance objectively administrable for construction and deployment contracting

Working vocabulary

colocationcritical loadreserved capacitytake-or-payramp schedulepower purchasecurtailmentcross-connectservice levelservice credit

What this role does

The Commercial Counsel (Datacenter & Procurement) is the commercial attorney for the buy-side and infrastructure - datacenter, colocation, power/energy, hardware and capacity procurement, construction, and large vendor/services agreements - owning the legal terms on the deals that build and run the company's physical footprint. The seat operates at IC altitude and is accountable for making infrastructure procurement law - datacenter and colocation agreements, power and energy contracts, hardware/capacity purchase and supply agreements, construction and services contracts, SLAs, capacity commitments, deployment and change orders, vendor risk and continuity reviewable, evidence-based, and decision-ready. Its defining outcome is that critical infrastructure capacity, power, hardware, construction, and services are procured on terms that protect availability, delivery, continuity, cost, and recoverability without counsel taking engineering or sourcing ownership. The craft is not the list of nouns in the title. In practice, the role must work from authoritative records, preserve definitions and versions, expose assumptions and exceptions, understand which controls and approvals support the result, and hand the final policy, risk, publication, payment, employment, settlement, regulator, technical, or executive decision to the accountable owner. The seat's core work spans datacenter and colocation structure, power and energy commitment, hardware and capacity supply, construction and deployment contracting, SLA and service-credit design, vendor continuity and concentration, infrastructure commitment approval. Against Commercial Counsel, this seat owns infrastructure, capacity, power, construction, and supply-side procurement agreements; general Commercial Counsel owns the broader everyday commercial book. Against Commercial Counsel - Enterprise Sales and Partnerships, this seat is buy-side and infrastructure-focused; the enterprise specialist is sell-side and partnership-focused. Against Government Contracts Manager, this seat handles private-sector infrastructure procurement legal terms; Government Contracts Manager owns public-sector solicitation and contract-compliance operations. This is an individual-contributor package. It may lead through expertise, artifacts, negotiation, analysis, or technical direction, but it does not gain people-management authority from seniority or proximity to leaders.

Best-fit customer

teams reviewing commercial agreements without enough counsel to go around

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