Senior Commercial Counsel
Synthesia
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • United States
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Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Work closely with our Sales, Marketing, Finance, Business Operations, and Go-To-Market organizations.
- Draft, review, and negotiate a variety of commercial agreements to support sales, partnerships, and our purchase of software and services from vendors.
- Advise on a variety of areas ranging from intellectual property, data privacy, data security, software licensing agreements, and go-to-market strategy.
- Provide input on processes, policies, and playbooks to help scale the organization and make our team more effective and efficient.
- Provide effective advice by staying up-to-date on relevant industry, commercial, open source, IP, privacy, employment, and other laws, regulations, and developments.
- Develop the company’s knowledge in areas of special interest, including intellectual property, data protection, financial services, healthcare, and other regulatory matters.
- Operate independently and provide practical, decisive guidance to our business teams that balances business objectives with legal risk, considering company policies and practices negotiation positions.
Requirements
- Completion of a law degree from an accredited institution, and qualified to practice law as an in-house attorney;
- 6+ years of post-qualification experience working on different kinds of commercial transactions (e.g., strategic alliance, SaaS, IP licensing, software licensing, product resale and distribution, working with contractors, outsourcing, facilities, etc.), including with large enterprise companies, companies in regulated industries (e.g., financial services, healthcare, etc.), government, and edu companies;
- Experience working in an in-house legal department, ideally in the tech sector.
- Comfortable negotiating data processing agreements, including a working knowledge of GDPR and CCPA as they relate to commercial contracts;
- Clean and concise drafting of documents, policies, Slack messages, emails, and other communications in a manner that is digestible for non-lawyers;
- Experience negotiating with enterprise customers, including on the customer’s form;
- Understanding of cloud services, technology, and professional services contracts;
- Knowledge of non-legal business processes gained in-house relating to sales operations and revenue recognition;
- Experience managing workload on tight timelines with multiple competing demands;
- Exposure and experience negotiating artificial intelligence terms, including an understanding on AI models and the use of training data for building such models.
Benefits
- PTO & Holiday Entitlement Policy
- Work from Abroad
- Team Meet ups & Company Socials
- Work From Home Budget
- Referral Scheme
- Enhanced Parental Leave
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
law degreecommercial agreementsintellectual propertydata privacydata securitysoftware licensingGDPRCCPAcloud servicesartificial intelligence
Soft Skills
negotiationeffective communicationindependent operationdecisive guidanceworkload managementdraftingadvisory skillscollaborationorganizational skillsproblem-solving
Certifications
qualified to practice law