Associate General Counsel Director, Collibra
$200-275k
+ Equity ownership at every level and bonus potential
2-5 days a week in office
Data intelligence cloud
Be an early applicant
Data intelligence cloud
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$200-275k
+ Equity ownership at every level and bonus potential
2-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To change how organizations use data, so that they can change the world.
Role
Who you are
- Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school and active bar membership in good standing
- 8+ years of legal experience with a strong focus on commercial transactions, including significant in-house experience (preferably at a technology, SaaS, or B2B company)
- Extensive experience negotiating and managing complex commercial agreements, including enterprise customer contracts, SaaS agreements, and strategic partnerships
- Demonstrated ability to lead and scale a commercial legal function, including building processes, playbooks, and managing internal or external legal teams
- Strong business acumen and collaborative mindset, with the ability to balance legal risk with strategic business objectives in a fast-paced environment
- A business-friendly and pragmatic attorney skilled at creative problem-solving
- Open to expanding beyond your primary responsibilities to work on additional legal matters that arise from the operations of a dynamic and fast-growing global company
- Collaborative and service-oriented
- Always looking to get to “yes,” while continuing to protect your client’s interests
- A strong and decisive leader, willing to make decisions on the fly
- Able to organize, prioritize, and manage deadlines in a fast-paced and demanding work environment
- Excited to work in a fast-paced, stimulating environment
What the job involves
- Reporting to the General Counsel, you will manage a team of talented commercial contracting attorneys in the US and Europe, and collaborate with our global sales leadership to ensure our customer contracting process both protects Collibra’s interests and enables customers to purchase our products and services with ease
- The role presents a significant opportunity for a motivated attorney to gain high-profile leadership experience and a deep understanding of the data privacy, AI, intellectual property, liability, and compliance considerations that inform a trailblazing SaaS company serving some of the most sophisticated and highly regulated organizations in the world
- Lead and manage the Global Commercial Legal team and function, overseeing all legal aspects of the company’s customer, vendor, and strategic partner agreements globally
- Draft, review, and negotiate complex commercial contracts, including SaaS agreements, licensing, procurement, partnership, distribution, NDAs, and professional services agreements
- Develop and implement scalable contract templates, playbooks, and negotiation strategies to drive efficiency, consistency, and risk mitigation across the commercial function. Provide training to the sales organization to ensure alignment with these strategies
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Procurement, Finance, Product, Marketing, and Operations teams to align legal support with business objectives and timelines
- Provide strategic legal advice and risk assessments to internal stakeholders on contract terms, including those addressing AI, data privacy, intellectual property, and regulatory considerations
- Support international expansion and cross-border transactions, ensuring commercial contracts comply with local laws and international legal standards
- Mentor and train commercial legal team members to facilitate each member’s career development
- Within your first month, you will...familiarize yourself with Collibra’s product, contracting processes and risk appetite
- Within your third month, you will...negotiate (complex) contracts with enterprise customers and vendors
- Within your sixth month, you will...provide support on legal projects or help implement systems and projects to improve the team’s efficiency and work product
Our take
Collibra wants to help firms understand data governance. As companies gather ever more data, Collibra helps them understand what data they have, who has access to it and how to move it through a workflow of data analysis tools.
Historically, large corporations have not thought much about the data they collect and how to use it. In this day and age, however, data is super valuable so everyone wants to make the most of it, which has made businesses turn to products such as Collibra's. The company has secured many big-name clients including T-Mobile, Lloyds Banking, and Equifax.
The company's growth has been helped by increasing data privacy legislation like GDPR, which means companies have a legal obligation to be in control of the data they're collecting and giving their employees access to. In 2022, the company was named an Innovation Summit Honoree by the Bank of America’s annual Technology Innovation Summit. It has continued to add new features and integrations to maintain its offering's premium status, including a new data marketplace, which provides a shopping-like experience from which users can access a company’s internal datasets.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Nov 2021
$250m
SERIES G
Apr 2020
$112.5m
SERIES F
Total funding: $605.6m
Company benefits
- {Be}Healthy: Healthcare for yourself and eligible dependents (inclusive of partners/domestic partners), mental health resources and care, tax-advantaged accounts, income protection, discount programs and more! Additionally, we encourage employees to treat their whole self by offering a bi-monthly calendar of events and programming dedicated to our {Be}well initiatives which focus on wellbeing areas including emotional, professional & social, financial, physical, allyship & belonging and giving back.
- {Be}With Family: We offer multiple types of leave so that you can spend time with loved ones, including parental leave, caregiver leave and our annual family day. These are all complementary to our culture in which we value output over hours.
- {Be}Kind: Collibra For Good, Unconscious Bias & Allyship training, Manager Racial Injustice training and Collibra-led fundraisers.
- {Be}Unplugged: Our paid time off programs include vacation, holidays, sick time and compassionate/bereavement leave. We also offer remote-friendly meditation sessions and cooking lessons – all of which you’re actively encouraged to use!
- {Be}Informed: Competitive compensation, bonus potential, private company equity, merit reviews and promotion cycles, company pension, discounts programs, access to LinkedIn Learning, employee referral program, employee rewards & recognition, development programs and more!
- {Be}Together: Community and belonging with our Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and personal interest groups, ERG-driven events, speaker series, and celebrations, a dedicated DEI council, the virtual Collibra cafe, trivia, bingo games and much more.
- When in-person (office) life resumes, we look forward to more snacks, catered lunches, team offsites and social events (think holiday gift exchange, fundraising events, happy hours, celebrations and more)!
- Unlimited paid time off policy
- Work from home opportunities
Company HQ
Financial District, New York, NY
Leadership
Felix Van De Maele
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously studied Computer Science and founded Collibra straight after university.
Pieter De Leenheer
(Co-Founder)CTO at 1upHealth. Started Collibra after completing a PhD in Computer Science. Also held the post of Professor of Computer Science at VU Amsterdam. Board Observer at Zenoptics.
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