What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Commercial Counsel position at Salsify?
About the Opportunity
We are looking for a motivated Senior Commercial Counsel to join Salsify’s legal team to continue to play a key role in our outstanding legal, security, and compliance program. As the Company enters into its next stage of hypergrowth, this person will provide end-to-end legal advice and support on a broad range of company initiatives, including commercial transactions, product development, data privacy, and legal operations. This person will report directly to our Chief Legal Officer.
This role requires a hands-on approach to cross-functional collaboration with internal teams to engage proactively the appropriate key stakeholders and will support the development, operation, sales, and marketing of our solutions and services.
The ideal candidate will have experience with pragmatically leading customer contract negotiations and balancing competing priorities and demands.
**Preference will be given to candidates living in the Eastern or Central time zones of the U.S.
How You'll Make an Impact:
- Draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of commercial agreements, such as SaaS agreements, professional services agreements, consulting agreements, data processing addendums, vendor agreements, and partner agreements
- Serve on cross-functional working groups crafting go-to-market strategy, including drafting contractual language for new products, features, and functionality; advising on packaging and pricing, and ensuring order forms are enabled in advance of launch
- Design and implement tools to enhance processes for scalability, such as developing and delivering training sessions and materials to empower various company stakeholders
- Play a key role in advising on and implementing controls, policies, and processes to scale the business
- Partner with InfoSec and engineering teams to implement data protection controls, and to support privacy standard practices for customer, employee, partner, and vendor personal information
You'll Enjoy This Role If You Have:
If you’re worried about checking all of the boxes, don’t be! We encourage you to apply or reach out with questions!
- 7 years of meaningful relevant experience, including in-house experience (SaaS
- preferred), with a focus on driving to closure a broad range of commercial transactions
- and advising on related privacy and data security issues
- A J.D. from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one state bar
- At least some knowledge of global and domestic privacy laws and regulations, including
- GDPR and CCPA
- A desire to improve processes, rather than to shy away from such opportunities, to
- enable business growth at scale
- A proven track record of working collaboratively, proactively identifying opportunities to
- improve processes, and managing multiple priorities effectively
