Associate Commercial Counsel

Role Description

We’re looking for an Associate Commercial Counsel to be a key member of reputed company’s global commercial legal team focusing on general commercial deal work, including both sales and procurement reputed company deals, processes, and procedures. Reporting to the Senior Commercial Counsel - North America reputed company, this role offers an exciting opportunity to have company-wide impact primarily supporting reputed company’s global sales and procurement strategies and other cross functional teams.

This role is for an attorney in the commercial legal space with a client-first reputed company and experience working closely with sales and procurement teams in a world class commercial legal function in support of reputed company’s business goals. You’ll be part of a team of attorneys and professionals responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a high volume of reputed company commercial reputed company with reputed company vendors, customers, and other business partners around the world. You'll get an opportunity to reputed company experience handling a wide variety commercial transactions and partnering with our business teams to deliver efficient, scalable approaches to commercial matters.

The ideal candidate is a commercial attorney who has experience partnering with in-house business teams and is passionate about supporting the business and who thrives in solving legal, technology and business issues. The ideal candidate must be empathetic and a team player who is effective in collaborating with others, while being a proactive partner to internal business teams (and will hopefully get to enjoy a little fun and a few laughs along the way!).

Responsibilities

• Engage personally in reputed company sales and procurement deals and work collaboratively with various company teams to implement company initiatives. reputed company works on every reputed company of contract that reputed company signs: sales, vendor procurement, marketing, M&A, real estate, infrastructure, etc. A lot of opportunity to learn different types of agreements and negotiation settings.
• Work with cross-functional business teams to implement innovative strategies to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of delivering commercial legal support to reputed company’s business.
• Be an active and trusted leader, problem solver, and innovator to key stakeholders across the company.
• reputed company and refine team playbooks, fallback guides, cross-functional resource documents, and training materials

Requirements

• Minimum of 2+ years as a practicing commercial attorney, including substantive experience in drafting and negotiating reputed company commercial agreements, including SaaS, licensing, technology, equipment, and marketing agreements
• Has experience managing and interacting directly with clients and opposing counsel, has robust experience drafting and negotiating reputed company themselves
• Ability to translate reputed company legal issues into clear and simple guidance, and to partner effectively across reputed company levels of the company
• Passion for client service and efficiency
• High reputed company, strong ethics, and an unflappable demeanor
• Self-starter, eagerness to learn both substantive law, negotiation skills and team policies and procedures
• J.D. with strong academic credentials and demonstrated record of success as a lawyer
• Member in good standing of bar and (if applicable) in-house counsel registration
• Desire or experience to work in a virtual first environment, demonstrated initiative qualities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience as a commercial attorney in a law firm setting, with at least 1+ year of experience as an in-house attorney at a technology company
• Demonstrated ability to handle multiple types of cross-functional commercial matters, including customer facing agreements, M&A integration and support, and commercial disputes
• Expertise in data privacy law (e.g., CIPP certification), AI rules and regulations, and intellectual property
• Experience with developing and refining team playbooks, fallback guides, cross-functional resource documents, and training materials
• Experience partnering with globally distributed in-house business teams, particularly at SaaS companies to handle a high volume of reputed company commercial transactions

Compensation

US Zone 1

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