Corporate Counsel

Overview

This role will serve as the organization’s first dedicated Legal hire, owning the commercial legal function and acting as a business partner to Sales, RevOps, Finance, and Product. Responsibilities include evaluating risk in customer and vendor agreements, efficiently handling redlines, and providing clear guidance to help deals move forward. The position requires independent judgment, including negotiating routine matters, knowing which issues to escalate, and engaging outside counsel when specialized expertise is needed.

Responsibilities

• Own the Contract Lifecycle: Primary reviewer and negotiator for inbound commercial agreements, including customer MSAs, order forms, NDAs, and vendor contracts. Manage redlines, track open issues, and move agreements through to signature.
• Partner with the Business: Collaborate with Sales, RevOps, Finance, and Product on commercial decisions, deal structures, and risk tradeoffs. Translate legal issues into clear, actionable guidance.
• Support Data Privacy and Security Compliance: Review and advise on DPA requirements, security exhibits, and privacy-related contractual obligations across customer and vendor agreements. Keep standard positions current as the regulatory landscape evolves.
• Build and Maintain Legal Infrastructure: Develop and maintain a library of standard agreement templates, negotiation playbooks, and fallback positions to ensure consistent guidance on routine matters.
• Direct Outside Counsel: Scope and manage outside counsel engagements for matters requiring specialized or deeper expertise; keep work well-defined and costs controlled.
• Streamline Legal Workflows: Establish contract intake, tracking, and storage processes that provide visibility into deal status and reduce friction across teams.

Requirements

• J.D. from an accredited law school and licensed to practice in at least one U.S. jurisdiction.
• 3–5 years of in-house legal experience, including meaningful experience with commercial contracts in a SaaS or technology company environment.
• Comfortable running early rounds of commercial negotiations independently; strong instincts on standard SaaS terms and sound judgment on when to push back versus accept markups.
• Hands-on experience with Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) and working knowledge of GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable privacy frameworks.
• Ability to recognize when to engage outside counsel and manage those relationships without over-reliance.
• Strong business judgment to balance legal risk reduction with operational goals.
• Ability to communicate legal concepts in plain language to non-lawyers while maintaining precision.
• Highly organized and able to manage multiple open deals simultaneously.
• Strong skills in negotiations, problem solving, verbal and written communication, and task management/prioritization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience establishing and scaling contract lifecycle processes, including templates and playbooks.
• Experience partnering cross-functionally in a lean, fast-paced environment.

Compensation & Benefits

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Location

This is a hybrid role if based in Seattle, WA, or remote for West Coast based candidates.