Senior Commercial Counsel

Overview

A remote contract opportunity is available for a Senior Commercial Counsel to support a Commercial Legal team on a 6-month basis. This role focuses on managing complex customer deal negotiations primarily within the Financial Services and Healthcare & Life Sciences sectors.

Responsibilities

• Lead the review, drafting, and negotiation of complex commercial customer agreements, including Master Service Agreements (MSAs), Data Processing Agreements (DPAs), order forms, and related documents
• Act as the primary legal lead on assigned transactions from intake through execution
• Provide strategic legal support for enterprise transactions in Financial Services and Healthcare & Life Sciences verticals
• Address regulatory, data privacy, information security, AI, and intellectual property issues during customer negotiations
• Collaborate closely with Sales to advance deals while balancing and mitigating legal risk
• Work cross-functionally with Finance, Information Security, Privacy, Product, and other internal teams to facilitate transaction closure
• Manage a high volume of matters efficiently in alignment with quarterly sales cycles

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in technology transactions, including significant in-house experience partnering directly with Sales and cross-functional teams in a high-growth SaaS or cloud environment
• Strong expertise in drafting and negotiating complex enterprise SaaS agreements, including consumption- and commit-based commercial models
• Proven success managing sophisticated transactions with Financial Services and Healthcare & Life Sciences customers such as banks, insurance companies, asset managers, fintech firms, health systems, payors, pharmaceutical, biotech, and digital health organizations
• Solid working knowledge of data privacy, information security, AI-related terms, and intellectual property (including open source)
• Ability to independently drive complex negotiations while balancing legal risk with revenue goals
• Comfortable working with minimal supervision in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with competing priorities
• Exposure to U.S. Public Sector contracting frameworks is a plus but not required
• Juris Doctor (JD) degree and active license in good standing in at least one U.S. jurisdiction

Location

• Remote

Duration

• 6 months contract