Writer

Commercial Counsel

Writer

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States • Illinois

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Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • Review and negotiate inbound and outbound commercial contracts, including inbound and outbound SaaS licensing agreements, strategic partnership agreements, data processing agreements and other contracts with enterprise customers and suppliers
  • Draft and negotiate SaaS agreements that power growth and keep partnerships strong
  • Develop and manage contract templates and negotiation playbooks; improve efficiency of sales contracting processes in collaboration with Sales Operations
  • Create and implement processes that benefit the business and support internal stakeholders as the company grows and scales
  • Enable and train go-to-market teammates by giving practicable advice and guidance
  • Act as trusted legal partner to sales and procurement; report to Head of Commercial Legal; work on fast-paced negotiations with large enterprise companies

Requirements

  • A law degree from an accredited law school and admitted to practice law in the U.S.
  • 5+ years of experience negotiating commercial contracts, ideally at a SaaS company and/or law firm servicing tech industry clients
  • Experience contracting with large enterprise companies and strategic partners, often in heavily-regulated industries (finance, healthcare, insurance)
  • Bonus points if you’ve supported a global sales team with international offices
  • Exposure to privacy, IP, and/or AI-specific legal issues, with a basic understanding of generative AI
  • Experience using contract management tools, in particular to help legal teams continue to be data-driven
  • Familiarity with legal operations, project management and CLM tools like Asana, Salesforce, Linksquares, Ironclad
  • Strong work ethic, ability to think on your feet, and a sense of humor
  • Ability to explain complex legal concepts in a non-legal way
  • Efficiency under tight deadlines; ability to prioritize and multi-task
  • Self-starter who finds ways to add value without being told
  • Partner-oriented approach (not a roadblock); collaborative and low ego