Paid Search Manager
Idea Evolver
Director, Commercial Legal
Vanta
full-time
Posted on:
Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California
Visit company websiteSalary
💰 $285,000 - $335,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Run Vanta’s commercial legal function and manage the commercial legal team
- Oversee and negotiate key customer, partner, and vendor deals in collaboration with global sales and procurement
- Own all aspects of negotiations with customers and vendors and associated processes
- Develop new processes and improve existing ones; institute policies while maintaining hypergrowth
- Manage escalations, collaborate across teams, and develop solutions to enable closing deals
- Provide counsel to the business regarding environment, challenges, and objectives
- Oversee management and maintenance of company legal templates (MSA, Privacy Policy, DPA, etc.)
- Ensure contracts deliver company objectives and mitigate risk
- Stay up to date on laws and regulations and communicate necessary changes to controls, policies, and procedures
- Evaluate risk factors impacting business decisions and anticipate unique legal issues
- Communicate and negotiate with external parties and build trusted relationships
- Oversee legal operations and address ad-hoc or specialized legal issues
- Report to the Head of Legal
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience and JD degree from an accredited school with experience negotiating SaaS agreements
- 5+ years of experience managing a commercial legal team at a hypergrowth technology company
- Commitment to spend three days per week in our beautiful new San Francisco office
- Direct experience with strategic business agreements, information security and compliance, privacy, intellectual property rights, international expansion, and management of affiliates
- Strong negotiating skills with both legal and financial/commercial issues
- Excellent knowledge and understanding of contract & corporate law and procedures
- Willingness to support teammates across a range of time zones
- Demonstrated ability to create legal, defensive, or proactive strategies
- Proven ability to build operationally excellent processes and practices
- Strong interpersonal and presentation skills
- Willingness to roll up sleeves and take on tasks both big and small
