Deputy General Counsel, Altana AI
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Office located in Brooklyn, NY
Supply chain visibility platform
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Supply chain visibility platform
101-200 employees
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More information about location
Office located in Brooklyn, NY
101-200 employees
Company mission
Altana AI's mission is to improve global commerce.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 10 years of combined experience in a highly ranked law firm and the in-house legal department of a technology company
- Extensive expertise in commercial contracting and corporate transactions, particularly in delivering SaaS agreements and M&A deals at speed and scale
- Proven track record of successfully building and scaling contracting processes and teams
- Deep understanding of software and data licensing transactions, data protection, commercial contracting, and intellectual property
- Exceptional problem-solving skills, with the ability to approach issues from first principles and draft novel contracts
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to work independently and collaboratively
- Active membership in good standing with the New York Bar Association
- Experience with contract lifecycle management tools is preferred
What the job involves
- As the Deputy General Counsel - Commercial, you will lead Altana’s commercial legal function with responsibility for all aspects of commercial contracting and corporate transactions, focusing on the drafting, review, and negotiation of revenue-generating contracts, partnerships, and M&A deals
- You will serve as a strategic advisor to commercial and company leadership on all commercial legal matters, enhancing and scaling the commercial contracting function to support Altana’s continued growth
- Oversee and manage a high volume and velocity pipeline of customer-facing commercial contracts (SaaS) and corporate transactions, including complex partnerships and M&A transactions
- Develop and refine processes, runbooks, and systems to ensure efficient and scalable contracting operations
- Provide strategic legal advice to commercial and company leadership on complex commercial matters and corporate transactions
- Proactively identify opportunities to increase the speed and efficiency of the customer sales cycle and corporate deal processes
- Drive continuous improvement of standard form agreements and contracting practices
- Serve as a trusted advisor and strategic partner to key stakeholders in sales and business development teams
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure compliance with applicable laws and regulations
Our take
Altana AI’s platform provides a shared source of truth for the global supply chain. The idea is that this will help businesses and governing powers optimize global commerce which, over the past few years, has shot up on the list of international priorities. With three quarters of businesses reporting recent supply chain disruptions, and governments increasingly concerned with mitigating security threats, data-driven visibility is more sought after than ever before.
Crucially, the platform doesn’t require data sharing to create global intelligence, instead using a federated machine learning approach. This is a nut many big-data companies have been trying to crack, and Altana AI’s success has attracted the company interest from top-tier investors like Google Ventures and Floating Point alongside contracts with the UK Department of Business & Trade. A number of other headline enterprises and government agencies are already on the company's customer roster.
With companies looking to recoup some of the $4 trillion reportedly lost in supply chain disruptions over recent years, and the push for global databases getting stronger, logistics startups are having a fruitful investment period. Altana is crafting a remarkable product at a highly marketable time, and with good uptake so far. Backed by substantial funding, Altana is set for a strong few years.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jul 2024
$200m
SERIES C
Oct 2022
$100m
SERIES B
Total funding: $323.5m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive healthcare package
- Paid parental leave of 3 months for the primary caregiver and 1 month for the secondary caregiver
Company values
- We focus on value creation, not value capture
- We amaze our clients
- We foster diversity and embrace difference
- We get things done
- We embrace reality
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
Raphael Tehranian
(COO)Previously an analyst with J P Morgan, pivoting to engagement at Cleantech Group and then corporate tech strategy with Suncor Energy. After a spell as an investor at Fuller Smith, spent time with global supply chain analytics company Panjiva as a management advisor.
Peter Swartz
(Chief Science Officer)An MIT grad in political science who went on to work as Head of Data Science at Panjiva.
Evan Smith
(CEO)A Yale economics graduate with experience in renewables at Imperium Renewables and Verno Systems, the latter of which they co-founded. Served as a partner at Fuller Smith, before moving on to work in a management advisor role at Panjiva.
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