Sr. Commercial Counsel

📋 Description

• Draft, negotiate, and advise cross-functional teams on various commercial agreements, including software/ SAAS licenses, NDAs, evaluation agreements, ecosystem partnership agreements, DPAs, and vendor contracts.
• Provide thoughtful and practical product, business, and legal counseling on various legal risks, business strategies, and other issues related to product features, commercial transactions, and general operations.
• Manage and resolve complicated issues related to commercial deals, and drive alignment with various cross-functional teams.
• Be ready to own the entire contracting cycle--from initial draft to execution--and collaborate with business, privacy and product teams to drive contract negotiations to timely and successful completion.
• Help build, streamline, and operationalize the company’s contracting process to help us scale as a Legal team and as a company.
• Support HR, Marketing, Product Development, and other internal constituencies as needed in contracts, research, deal structuring, and risk counseling.

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of experience, complex tech transactional expertise, but intellectual curiosity and desire to expand areas of knowledge and participation as the business might require, e.g. privacy, product, HR, corporate matters.
• J.D., with strong academic credentials and membership in at least one U.S. state bar.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to advocate for a position while maintaining a collaborative and open-minded approach.
• Highly organized, reliable, detail-oriented, and diligent with an ethos of project ownership.
• Ability to work on multiple issues simultaneously and set appropriate priorities with clients and deliver results.
• Proven ability to provide entrepreneurial, pragmatic, business-oriented advice, with a dedication to superior customer service.
• Ability to operate autonomously while being a team player who brings a positive attitude to the job.

🎁 Benefits

• Work from home with a global remote-first community
• Global Culture Corner
• Flexible PTO and Quarterly Volunteer Days
• Equity Participation
• 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision options available to you
• Fidelity Employer Sponsored 401K