Elliptic

Associate Legal Counsel

Elliptic

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • New York • United States

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About the role

  • Independently manage and negotiate commercial contracts across the Americas, with a strong focus on SaaS customer agreements with enterprise and financial institution (representing ~90% of your workload), as well as supplier and partnership agreements
  • Be the primary legal business partner for our Americas Sales and Revenue teams, supporting the entire contract lifecycle from RFI through to execution, while managing legal risk in a balanced, business-focused way
  • Work directly and effectively with Senior Leadership, Sales, and Revenue Operations teams
  • Provide clear, practical legal advice to non-legal stakeholders.
  • Provide occasional support to the UK-based Head of Legal on non-commercial legal matters

Requirements

  • **Our ideal candidate has:**
  • - Detail-oriented and highly organized.
  • - Comfortable being the only legal representative in the US, with regular collaboration with the UK Legal team.
  • - Thrive in a high-autonomy environment and enjoy taking ownership of your domain.
  • - Pragmatic, commercial, and solutions-oriented.
  • - Has at least three years of post-bar / legal experience(or similar relevant experience), with a strong background in SaaS and commercial contracts
  • - Has proven experience negotiating SoWs, DPAs, and commercial agreements with enterprise clients and/or financial institutions
  • - Understands key issues of intellectual property and data protection in the US context
  • - Has excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • - Is based in New York and available to attend the New York office at least two days a week
  • **Bonus Points for:**
  • - Prior in-house experience
  • - Experience working with SaaS technology contracts
  • - Familiarity with legal tech tools such as CLM’s.
  • - An interest in cryptocurrency
Benefits
  • - **How we work**
  • - Hybrid working and the option to work from almost anywhere for up to **90 days per year**
  • - $500 remote working budget to set up your home office space
  • - **Learning & Development**
  • - $1,000 annual Learning & Development budget to use on anything (agreed with your manager) that contributes to your growth and development
  • - **Vacation / Leave**
  • - Holidays: **25 days of annual leave + public holidays** (federal holidays observed in the US)
  • - An extra day off for your birthday
  • - Enhanced parental leave: we provide eligible employees, regardless of gender or whether they become a parent by birth or adoption, 16 weeks fully-paid leave
  • - **Benefits**
  • - Competitive salary, along with share options
  • - Private health insurance and access to Spill Mental Health Support
  • - Work pension scheme (401k)
  • - $100 worth of crypto for you!

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
commercial contractsSaaS agreementsnegotiating SoWsnegotiating DPAsintellectual propertydata protectionlegal experiencecontract lifecycle management
Soft skills
detail-orientedhighly organizedpragmaticcommercialsolutions-orientedexcellent written communicationexcellent verbal communicationability to work autonomously