Kong Inc.

Senior Legal Counsel, EMEA – Commercial

Kong Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

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About the role

  • Serve as a trusted advisor and business partner to all levels of Kong’s EMEA sales team, from VP to Account Executive
  • Support our AMER and APAC sales team as needed
  • Lead complex cross-border commercial transactions with sophisticated counterparties located across EMEA
  • Review, draft, and negotiate a wide variety of other commercial agreements
  • Help ensure compliance with a variety of laws and regulations impacting our enterprise software and SaaS offerings, including intellectual property, privacy, security, compliance and government contracting
  • Partner with Finance, Sales Ops and Deal Ops to support the end-to-end contract negotiation and close process
  • Advise internal teams on legal matters and provide general commercial legal advice, as well as providing training and enablement to our growing Go to Market organization
  • Assist in building out AI tools and processes to assist with our growth and scale
  • And any additional challenges and tasks to help support Kong’s growth

Requirements

  • Law degree, and member in good standing in England and Wales (or if France, CAPA and registration with local bar association)
  • Experience with UK or US headquartered companies, and strong English technical drafting skills
  • Minimum 4-6 years of experience practicing law both with a law firm and in-house (preferably with late-stage private and/or early-stage public technology companies)
  • Demonstrated experience in negotiating and closing complex software and SaaS contracts with large, sophisticated customers
  • Great judgment and bedside manner with customers, and an ability to build and maintain strong professional relationships within the company, with customers, and others
  • Working knowledge of intellectual property, AI, data governance, EMEA regulation and privacy matters
  • High professional and personal standards, and a commitment to inclusiveness
  • Attention to detail and an ability to view legal issues within the context of business objectives
  • A passion for team work, collaboration and customer success - at Kong we win together
Benefits
  • Some limited international work travel will be required.
  • Health insurance
  • Retirement plans
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Hard Skills & Tools
law degreetechnical draftingnegotiating contractsclosing contractscomplianceintellectual propertydata governanceprivacy mattersAI toolsSaaS agreements
Soft Skills
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Certifications
member in good standing in England and WalesCAPAregistration with local bar association