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Senior Counsel
Location
United States
Posted
9 days ago
Salary
$175K - $225K / year
Bachelor Degree6 yrs expEnglish
Job Description
• Lead drafting, negotiation, and management of a wide range of commercial agreements (enterprise SaaS contracts, data processing agreements, strategic partnerships, vendor contracts, and more).
• Negotiate directly with large enterprise customers and strategic partners, balancing speed-to-close with thoughtful risk mitigation.
• Collaborate closely with our Head of Legal Operations to create scalable commercial processes, templates, and systems.
• Provide practical and actionable guidance on privacy, product, employment, and compliance matters as they arise.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to shape the roadmap with privacy and regulatory considerations in mind.
• Enable sales, customer success, and other go-to-market functions through playbooks, trainings, and templates.
• Collaborate directly with the General Counsel on strategic initiatives, Board matters, and scaling the legal function.
Job Requirements
- 5–7 years of legal experience, with meaningful in-house experience at a high-growth B2B SaaS, AI or data infra company.
- Extensive experience successfully negotiating complex enterprise SaaS agreements with Fortune 500 or other large global companies.
- Demonstrated ability to get deals done while mitigating legal and business risk in a meaningful, scalable way.
- Track record of partnering with legal operations and cross-functional teams to scale a commercial contracting function.
- Admission to practice law in at least one US state.
- Familiarity with global data privacy and AI regulations, including comprehensive (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) and sectoral (HIPAA, GLBA, WA My Health My Data, etc.) frameworks.
- CIPP/US and/or CIPP/E.
- Ability to make quick, pragmatic decisions and clearly distinguish between business-critical and lower-priority issues.
- A self-starter who thrives in ambiguity, enjoys working remotely, and is excited to roll up their sleeves and build from scratch.
- Intellectual curiosity, willingness to learn across disciplines, and a sense of humor.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Flexible PTO
- Parental leave
- Employee equity