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Senior commercial counsel

WRITER· Legal
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Hybrid (San Francisco, CA), Hybrid (Chicago, IL), Hybrid (Seattle, WA), Hybrid (New York City, NY), Hybrid (Austin, TX)$223k - $263kFull-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Senior commercial counsel who thrives on deal-making and turns legal complexity into business clarity, partnering with sales and procurement to draft and negotiate SaaS agreements and related contracts for enterprise customers and partners.

Responsibilities

  • Review and negotiate inbound and outbound commercial contracts, including inbound and outbound SaaS licensing agreements, strategic partnership agreements, data processing agreements and other important contracts with our enterprise customers and suppliers.
  • Develop and manage various contract templates and negotiation playbooks and improve efficiency of sales contracting processes in collaboration with sales operations.
  • Create thoughtful processes that benefit the business (not just legal) and how we support our internal stakeholders as we grow and scale - If you see something that doesn’t work, or could be better, we want you to help fix it!
  • Enable and train our go-to-market teammates by giving them practicable advice and guidance.

Qualifications

  • A law degree from an accredited law school and admitted to practice law in the U.S.
  • 7+ years of experience negotiating commercial contracts, ideally at a SaaS company and/or law firm servicing tech industry clients
  • Experience contracting with large enterprise companies and strategic partners, often in heavily-regulated industries (finance, healthcare, insurance)
  • Bonus points if you’ve supported a global sales team with international offices
  • Exposure to privacy, IP, and/or AI-specific legal issues, with a basic understanding of AI
  • Experience using contract management tools, in particular to help legal teams like ours continue to be data-driven
  • Familiarity with legal operations, project management and CLM tools like Asana, Salesforce, Linksquares, etc.
  • A strong work ethic, the ability to think on your feet, and a sense of humor
  • You are: a business person first that also happens to be a lawyer; able to explain complex legal concepts non-legally; a redline machine with fast work under tight deadlines; a self-starter; a partner not a roadblock; curious, reliable, comfortable moving uncomfortably fast, and have a low ego.

Skills

Required:Commercial contract negotiation

Benefits

  • Generous PTO, plus company holidays
  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
  • Paid parental leave for all parents (16 weeks)
  • Fertility and family planning support
  • Early-detection cancer testing through Galleri
  • Flexible spending account and dependent FSA options
  • Health savings account for eligible plans with company contribution
  • Annual work-life stipends for Wellness, and Learning and development
  • Company-wide off-sites and team off-sites
  • Competitive compensation, company stock options and 401k
Last updated Sep 24, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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