Senior Legal Counsel, Shopify

• Qualified lawyer entitled to practice in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany or France
• 5+ years of relevant legal experience, having a mix of law firm and in-house experience
• Substantial experience drafting and negotiating complex legal agreements, preferably in the technology sector, such as sales, software and other licensing arrangements, including those related to SaaS, and other cloud-based services and technology-related offerings
• Experience supporting a large sales organization
• Experience leading and managing projects and multiple priorities, stakeholders and deadlines
• The ability to both work collaboratively as part of a team and on an individual basis without a lot of guidance or oversight, always with a view towards being of service to clients and other legal team members
• Exceptional business judgment, relationship-building skills and creativity
• A keen interest in creative legal problem solving, including researching novel and ambiguous areas of law
• The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and entrepreneurial environment
• Strong written and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to match your tone to your audience
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and entrepreneurial environment

Desirable

• Within the Shopify Legal Team, the Commercial Revenue Legal Team is focused on supporting Shopify’s revenue and sales organization
• The Commercial Revenue team targets small, medium, and enterprise merchants worldwide in connection with a number of sales product offerings, including Shopify Plus, Commerce Components by Shopify, Shopify Payments and Shopify POS
• As a Senior Legal Counsel on the Commercial Revenue Legal Team you will draft and negotiate various sales and SaaS agreements with some of the worlds biggest brands
• Provide general legal advice to various Commercial Revenue team members
• Assisting with expansions into new jurisdictions and product verticals
• Advising on a diverse range of merchant issues that arise over the course of our merchants’ life cycle, some of which may require mediation of sensitive and high impact issues
• To be successful on our team, collaboration and engagement is key
• Our team members regularly collaborate with each other and with internal stakeholders, effectively guiding business strategies and communicating legal risk
• We build trust with the internal business team, and show up for our clients both proactively, to ensure our business teams don’t run into problems, and reactively, when issues do come up