Description:
CM Group has experienced tremendous growth in the last few years as a family of marketing technology brands. As we continue to grow, we are looking to add another Commercial Counsel to join our legal team. The right candidate will be a proactive, collaborative, business-minded, creative team player with experience drafting and negotiating agreements, including agreements with customers, vendors, resellers and other general corporate agreements.If you are looking for an incredible opportunity to make a high impact contribution we would love to speak with you.
What will a Commercial Counsel at CM Group do?
- Support the global sales team and internal business teams in structuring, drafting and negotiating commercial agreements and vendor agreements.
- Identify contractual risks and suggest alternatives that lead to optimal solutions.
- Work cross-functionally with sales, finance, and operations teams to ensure that contractual terms are compliant with legal, regulatory, and company policies and risk preferences.
- Optimize contract templates, draft global corporate policies and processes, and develop sales training materials and customer-facing collateral.
- Suggest and implement improvements to make legal operations more efficient.
- Help with ad hoc projects as needed.
What does the qualified candidate look like?
- Holds a Juris Doctorate and a license to practice law in the U.S.
- Has 2+ years of contract review/negotiation experience and sales team support.
- Demonstrates superior communication, negotiation, people, and organizational skills, and is comfortable and confident in dealing directly with customers, sales teams, and all levels of management.
- Has excellent legal and contract negotiation skills and experience, ideally negotiating with enterprise customers for SaaS/web-based technology product
- Has strong business acumen and ability to build relationships across the business and collaborate cross-functionally to solve problems.
- Is highly self-sufficient; can operate with little guidance, while still escalating issues/seeking guidance appropriately.
- Is intellectually curious, seeking to thoroughly investigate any situation to find creative solutions.
- Prioritizes organized thinking and recordkeeping.
Bonus points:
- Experience working in the start-up environment
- Product compliance (i.e. privacy) experience/exposure
What are the perks and benefits?
- Competitive salary + medical/dental/vision benefits
- An awesome work environment using the best available equipment
- Adjustable desks so you're comfy
- Daily catered meals and loads of snacks and drink options
- Paid time off to volunteer in our community
