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Legal Counsel, EMEA Commercial

Databricks
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LondonPosted 5mo ago

About the role

Legal Counsel to support Databricks' EMEA commercial activities, focusing on reviewing and negotiating customer agreements, enabling revenue-generating activities, and improving processes at pace.

Responsibilities

  • Reviewing, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, such as MCSAs, SOWs and Order Forms, ensuring that Databricks' risk position is protected and internal compliance requirements are met
  • Supporting the end-to-end contract management lifecycle, providing practical, commercially-minded advice to sales and professional services teams on contractual risks and commercial matters
  • Actively testing and adopting AI tools to improve the efficiency of contract review and the wider legal function, and contributing to process improvements and good practices that help us scale
  • Providing support and enablement to sales teams on key contractual requirements, best practices and contract management
  • Developing a strong understanding of Databricks' internal structures, product offerings, technology, security/data protection positions and policies to give you a foundation for providing support across Databricks' lines of business
  • Building your understanding of Databricks' commercial offerings to support sales teams (and customers where needed) during negotiations
  • Applying critical thinking and problem-solving skills to propose business solutions which can meet the business' and customers' needs
  • Cultivating strong cross-functional relationships with key stakeholders to support the Company's go-to-market efforts across EMEA
  • Contributing as a team player to help further the status of the legal department as a respected and valued partner within the company
  • You will report to the Director & Assistant General Counsel, EMEA Commercial Legal, and will be a valued part of the team responsible for reviewing and negotiating customer agreements, providing legal support for revenue-generating activities of Databricks, and helping the business to improve processes and scale at pace

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree (or equivalent)
  • Qualified lawyer (or equivalent), with approximately 3 years' PQE
  • Experience gained in-house at a leading SaaS company (or in private practice supporting one) with a regular/quarterly sales cycle
  • Solid experience negotiating MSAs, NDAs, Order Forms and legal amendments with enterprise customers
  • Familiarity with, or willingness to quickly learn, large CRM systems (like Salesforce) and contract management systems (like Ironclad)
  • A genuine willingness to test and adopt AI tools to improve the efficiency and quality of legal work
  • Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritise time and business needs in the face of competing demands
  • Experience working with sales teams
  • A real appetite for the challenge of supporting a world-leading data and AI company operating at hyper-growth scale

Skills

Required:Contract negotiationAI tooling in legal workflowContract lifecycle managementSales collaborationCommercial awareness
Last updated Sep 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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