Description:
The Role and the TeamBased in our Pittsburgh, PA office this is a Hybrid role going into the office 3 days per week. An Enterprise Security Company is dedicated to providing expert legal advice in a fast-paced business environment and supporting An Enterprise Security Company crucial mission of enabling organizations across the world to defend, protect, archive and govern their most sensitive data. This position will report to a Director, Legal. The Commercial Counsel role is an important part of building the culture and success of the legal function to help drive An Enterprise Security Company growth.
The Commercial Counsel will join a collaborative and experienced legal team and will interact with cross-functional teams, peers, junior colleagues, and staff to enable their development and the enhancement of our commercial legal support processes. The successful candidate will be comfortable leading An Enterprise Security Company teams on deals, interacting with internal and external executives, and making agile and practical decisions that comply with company standards, policy and strategy.
Your Day to Day:
- Draft, review and negotiate a broad range of commercial, revenue-generating agreements, including SaaS, software, channel, and other service agreements (Data Processing, Business Associate and Non-Disclosure Agreements) (~80%)
- Provide legal analyses of applicable laws, regulations and industry guidance that impact customer license and services agreements and assist the team in strengthening its capabilities and services efficacy through Legal Operations guidance and implementation of best practices (~10%)
- Assist in development and implementation of various legal templates, forms, communications and operational systems to improve the delivery and scalability of legal resources to a worldwide, distributed client base by working collaboratively with other legal team members and internal constituents (~5%)
- Proactively communicate issues back to leadership and drive sound business, legal and operational processes and practices throughout the organization; drafting and implementing related policies; travel as requested (~5%)
The How:
- Excellent negotiation and diplomacy skills, including ability to build consensus, “soft” skills to encourage, motivate and influence at all levels of the organization and those of our customers and partners
- Strong analytical and drafting skills with keen attention to detail and the ability to improve our forms and demonstrate flexibility in using customer or partner paper
- Effective communication in person, in groups, over email and in more formal documentation
- Highest degree of personal and professional integrity and ethics
- A practical, creative, and proactive problem solver who is confident and poised and a consummate team player.
What you bring:
- Experience with commercial technology transactions (SaaS and Software) with Fortune 1000 companies and Channel (Reseller, VAR, MSP, etc.) programs and relationships required
- Experience partnering (and developing rapport) with sales teams in a fast-paced environment that requires sound judgment, excellent counseling skills and ability to prioritize matters
- 5+ years+ experience as an attorney, with previous in-house experience strongly preferred
- Law firm (AMLAW 200 or equivalent) experience preferred, especially in business transactions, litigation, intellectual property and/or licensing
- Experience handling data privacy and information security matters
- Member in good standing of the Pennsylvania State Bar
- Member in good standing of the applicable State Bar.
