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BigID

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Commercial Counsel

General CounselGeneral CounselFull TimeRemoteMid LevelTeam 201-500Since 2016H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Worldwide

Posted

6 days ago

Salary

$150K - $185K / year

Seniority

Mid Level

No structured requirement data.

Job Description

Commercial Counsel

BigID

Role Description We’re looking for a Commercial Counsel to join our tight-knit legal team. 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. - 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. - 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. Qualifications - 6+ years of experience, transactional expertise, but intellectual curiosity and desire to expand areas of knowledge and participation as the business might require. - 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. - Ability to work on multiple issues simultaneously, to set appropriate priorities with clients, and to deliver results efficiently. - 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. - A passion to get deals done with ownership, urgency, and optimism. Requirements - Experience in, or good instincts and desire to learn/participate in, other operational areas such as labor/HR, equity management, IP, Board matters, pre-litigation dispute resolution and investigations, policy creation, entity management. - Experience and knowledge of Privacy Laws, AI, and Data Security concepts. - Foreign language skills (especially Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Hebrew, French). - Government contracts experience. - Technical savvy. - Experience in "zero leverage" sell-side negotiation with large enterprise-class customers. Benefits - Work from home with a global remote-first community. - Global Culture Corner. - Flexible PTO and Quarterly Volunteer Days. - Equity Participation. - 100% employer-covered medical, dental, and vision options are available to you. - Fidelity Employer Sponsored 401K. - Paid Parental Leave. Company Description BigID is an innovative tech startup that focuses on solutions for data security, compliance, privacy, and AI data management. We're leading the market in all things data: helping our customers reduce risk, drive business innovation, achieve compliance, build customer trust, make better decisions, and get more value from their data. At BigID, our team is the foundation of our success. Join a people-centric culture that is fast-paced and rewarding: you’ll have the opportunity to work with some of the most talented people in the industry who value innovation, diversity, integrity, and collaboration.

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