Legal Director – Legal Transactions

Five9

Commercial attorney negotiating complex agreements for Five9, a leading provider of cloud contact center software. Partnering with sales and legal teams on day-to-day transactions.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeSan Ramon • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $156,000 - $324,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

The attorney will own the execution of day-to-day sales and commercial legal process activity.
This role will partner closely with the sales team, as well as reseller-, finance-, sales-operations-, account management and other teams to execute on company business objectives and drive legal departmental initiatives.
The attorney will leverage their experience negotiating and drafting complex sales transactions, including SaaS (or Contact Center as a Service) agreements with a variety of customers and partners including financial companies, healthcare providers, retail companies and insurance companies of different scale and sizes (SMB and Enterprise).
This role will counsel work across team members within Legal and Compliance, as well as with business partners on matters involving telecommunications, service level agreements, artificial intelligence, and data privacy frameworks, including GDPR, CCPA and HIPPA.
The ideal candidate will also have a proven record negotiating a high volume of transactions per quarter and can equally manage legal requests from multiple internal clients.
This attorney will also have the opportunity to negotiate a variety of other commercial agreements including vendor, reseller and distribution partner agreements.
The candidate will assist in the continuous improvement of standard form agreements, create playbooks and clauses for inclusion in the company’s CLM tool.

Requirements

What you’ll need

JD plus 10-15 years combined law firm and in-house legal department experience with at least 6 years of experience in drafting and negotiating complex agreements in a high-pressure tech sales environment
Substantial experience negotiating SaaS agreements, Data Protection Agreements, Business Associate Agreements, vendor/supplier contracts, and reseller agreements for technology companies
Familiarity working across the globe, to support multiple time zones and cultures
Experience with telecommunications law, artificial intelligence and data privacy frameworks, including GDPR, CCPA and HIPPA, is strongly preferred
A passion for developing strong, collaborative working relationships with Legal and Compliance teammates and peers
Strong working knowledge of business processes for Cloud business capabilities like go-to-market, customer experiences, finance processes, and operational efficiencies
Dedication to and compassion for the customer experience is a mustSelf-motivated, energetic, excellent interpersonal, organizational, conflict-resolution skills
Gravitas and the proven ability to develop collaborative working relationships with a strong team of sales and other company business units
Demonstrated experience working efficiently with attention to responsiveness
A self-starter who possesses a strong work ethic
High degree of flexibility, independence, initiative, and detail orientation
Ability to present complex ideas in easy-to-understand language
Highly organized and able to handle multiple activities and manage high volumes simultaneously
Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and continuously changing environment

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health, dental, and vision coverage, beginning on the first day of employment. Five9 covers 100% of the employee portion of the health, dental and vision coverage and shares a high portion of the dependent cost. We also offer Short & Long-Term Disability, Basic Life Insurance, and a 401k saving plan with employer matching.
Access to an innovative mental health support platform that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
Generous employee stock purchase plan.
Paid Time Off, Company paid holidays, paid volunteer hours and 12 weeks paid parental leave.

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Hard Skills & Tools

JDnegotiating complex agreementsdrafting complex agreementsSaaS agreementsData Protection AgreementsBusiness Associate Agreementsvendor contractsreseller agreementstelecommunications lawdata privacy frameworks

Soft Skills

collaborative working relationshipsinterpersonal skillsorganizational skillsconflict-resolution skillsself-motivatedstrong work ethicflexibilityinitiativedetail orientationability to present complex ideas