Senior Commercial Counsel, BigID

• Our ideal candidate is someone who has hands-on global enterprise software transaction experience and is able to drive an efficient negotiation process that all sides feel is fair and balanced
• Someone with commercial and complex, high-touch tech transaction experience, coming from in-house at a high-tech growth company, or at a law firm, ideally a combination of both
• 8+ years of experience, complex tech transactional expertise, but intellectual curiosity and desire to expand areas of knowledge and participation as the business might require, e.g. privacy, product, HR, corporate matters
• J.D., with strong academic credentials and membership in at least one U.S. state bar
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to advocate for a position while maintaining a collaborative and open-minded approach
• Highly organized, reliable, detail-oriented, and diligent with an ethos of project ownership
• Ability to work on multiple issues simultaneously and set appropriate priorities with clients and deliver results
• Proven ability to provide entrepreneurial, pragmatic, business-oriented advice, with a dedication to superior customer service
• Ability to operate autonomously while being a team player who brings a positive attitude to the job

Desirable

• We’re looking for a Sr. Commercial Counsel to join our growing, but tight-knit legal team
• Draft, negotiate, and advise cross-functional teams on various commercial agreements, including software/ SAAS licenses, NDAs, evaluation agreements, ecosystem partnership agreements, DPAs, and vendor contracts
• Provide thoughtful and practical product, business, and legal counseling on various legal risks, business strategies, and other issues related to product features, commercial transactions, and general operations
• Manage and resolve complicated issues related to commercial deals, and drive alignment with various cross-functional teams
• Be ready to own the entire contracting cycle--from initial draft to execution--and collaborate with business, privacy and product teams to drive contract negotiations to timely and successful completion
• Help build, streamline, and operationalize the company’s contracting process to help us scale as a Legal team and as a company
• Support HR, Marketing, Product Development, and other internal constituencies as needed in contracts, research, deal structuring, and risk counseling
• Get tagged in by the GC where needed as a utility player/problem solver. This is an “everyone does everything” team, where we learn from each other