Commercial Counsel, Posit
$146-292.7k
+ Annual profit-sharing bonus
Open-source tools for data science
Be an early applicant
Open-source tools for data science
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$146-292.7k
+ Annual profit-sharing bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create free and open-source software for data science, scientific research, and technical communication.
Role
Who you are
- Qualified Legal Professional: JD (or equivalent) and member in good standing of a state bar
- Commercial Expertise: Proven experience drafting, reviewing, and negotiating a broad range of commercial contracts, including software, SaaS, and professional services
- Experience: 4+ years experience working in-house legal and/or for a law firm is a plus
- AI Enthusiast: Experience with, or a strong desire to learn and implement, AI solutions in our products and in legal activities and processes
- Business Partner Mindset: Experience in cross-functional work and communication, focusing on improving the customer experience and supporting company growth
- Adaptable & Entrepreneurial: Comfortable joining a small, growing team where you will need to build processes from the ground up
What the job involves
- Posit Legal is a trusted and impactful business partner, providing proactive, practical, and solution-oriented legal advice to support our open-source mission and commercial objectives
- As the second lawyer to join our Posit legal team, you will play a foundational role in building a modern, tech-forward legal function
- Because our products encompass software, open source and SaaS solutions and tools, you will navigate a range of legal matters—from standard software licensing to complex inquiries about data privacy, AI and security
- We strive to transform complex legal requirements into a positive experience that impresses every customer and internal stakeholder with our business focus, kindness, and technical expertise
- Working in this role will provide you with the opportunity to lead commercial negotiations, inform product improvements based on legal trends, be at the forefront of AI, and help scale a creative and collaborative team
- Contract Management: Structure, draft, and close a variety of commercial transactions, including software licenses, SaaS agreements, NDAs, and SOWs
- AI Integration: Actively experiment with and implement AI-enabled tools to automate routine legal tasks and improve contract lifecycle management
- Sales Partnership: Act as the primary legal point of contact for the sales organization to ensure deals are closed efficiently and responsibly
- Corporate Support: Assist with corporate governance, development of internal policies, and Board of Directors matters, including preparing meeting materials and maintaining corporate records
- Employment Matters: Partner with our incredible People Operations team on a wide variety of US and international employment matters
- Ownership: Independently manage the commercial contract queue and leading negotiations, as well as identify opportunities for meaningful improvement to legal templates, process and/or AI workflows
- Cross-Functional: In order to be an effective and valued advisor, develop strong relationships with leaders and team members in Sales, Customer Success, People Operations, Product, Engineering and Finance
- Department Strategy: Setting the direction for the legal function and fostering a culture of psychological safety, technical excellence, and continuous improvement
- Scalable Processes: Creating team-wide processes that allow the legal function to scale alongside our global growth
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Communicating with other teams across the company to ensure legal strategies are aligned with product and business planning
Our take
In a data-driven world, having reliable and accessible software is key to optimizing functionality. Posit provides R and Python-based tools to help improve the speed and quality of analysis, created "for data scientists by data scientists", with uses in data science, scientific research, and technical communication.
By creating universal data processing capabilities, Posit is helping to create new pathways in the digital age. Many of the company's products, including Posit Team for enterprises, are open sourced and accessible to all. Those looking for more advanced products can access programs such as Posit Server Pro and Shiny Server Pro for workspace management.
Given its unique approach to data management, entities from Liberty Mutual to Walmart and NASA have been incorporating Posit's technology. The company has received considerable amounts of funding, which has been used to expand its services. And, as the demand for open-source services continues to grow, Posit should continue to capture market share.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
41% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
May 2021
$161.3m
LATE VC
Total funding: $161.3m
Company benefits
- 100% remote (or come in to one of our offices in Seattle or Boston)
- Pick your hardware — we want to equip you with what you need to do your best work
- All our full time employees are given an allowance to outfit their home office
- We have a flexible environment with a “take what you need” vacation policy
- Positive, passionate culture working with a world-class team committed to data science and the R language
Company HQ
South Boston Waterfront, Boston, MA
Leadership
JJ Allaire
(Founder & Executive Chair)Founded Allaire, where they served as CEO and then Chairman. JJ also founded Onfolio, which was acquired by Microsoft. They founded FitNow in 2008 before starting RStudio in January 2010.
Tareef Kawaf
(CEO)Previously SVP of Engineering and Operations at Brightcove, VP of Engineering at Ruckus Network and Director of Engineering and Commerce at ATG.
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