Senior Legal Counsel

Overview

A technology company specializing in location analytics is seeking a Senior Legal Counsel to join a lean, high-performing legal team. This role involves working closely with business units on revenue, product, data, and strategic decisions. Reporting to the General Counsel, the initial focus will be on complex commercial contracting and data partnerships, with opportunities for broader legal leadership as the candidate gains context and trust.

Responsibilities

Commercial Contracting and Data Partnerships

• Lead complex commercial negotiations including enterprise customer MSAs, license agreements, government reseller agreements, professional services agreements, vendor agreements, and strategic partnership agreements.
• Serve as a senior escalation point for high-value or complex deals.
• Manage inbound data provider agreements, addressing data rights, licensing structures, and intellectual property issues critical to product infrastructure.
• Collaborate with go-to-market, deal desk, partnerships, security, product, and compliance teams on deal structuring, escalations, and process improvements.
• Enhance playbooks, templates, fallback positions, and standards while providing practical risk guidance.

Strategic Legal Generalist Work

• Lead or support legal workstreams including corporate governance, employment and HR matters, equity and compensation, pre-litigation disputes, policy development, and outside counsel management.

Privacy, AI, and Product Counseling

• Advise on privacy and data protection matters related to the location analytics platform.
• Partner with compliance, product, security, and engineering teams on privacy-by-design practices.
• Translate privacy, data, and AI governance developments into practical business guidance.
• Collaborate on new feature launches, AI-related functionality, data use questions, and product risk assessments.

Legal Operations and Technology

• Utilize and help develop AI tools and legal technology to improve the speed, scale, and quality of legal work, including contract review, research, and workflow automation.
• Identify recurring legal and business friction points and develop scalable workflows.

Requirements

• Minimum 8 years of legal experience, including significant in-house experience at a technology, SaaS, data, or other high-growth B2B company.
• Strong expertise in commercial contracting and technology transactions with the ability to lead complex negotiations independently.
• Broad knowledge of legal issues common in scaling tech companies, with deep experience in at least one area such as privacy, product counseling, corporate governance, employment, equity, or disputes.
• Ability to operate as a senior resource on a lean team and as a strong individual contributor with sound judgment and ownership.
• Excellent legal judgment and communication skills, capable of distinguishing real risk from theoretical risk and explaining complex legal issues clearly.
• Practical fluency with AI and legal technology, including experience building AI-powered workflows and understanding where human review or controls are necessary.
• Juris Doctor (J.D.) from an accredited law school and active membership in at least one U.S. state bar in good standing.
• Candidates must be based in the U.S. as this is a fully remote position.

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual total on-target earnings range: $200,000 - $240,000 USD (base salary plus bonus target).
• Compensation varies based on skills, experience, education, licenses, work location, and market data.
• Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible time off, 401(k), and equity awards for certain roles.
• Fully remote work arrangement.

Location

• This is a fully remote position.
• Candidates must be based in the United States.

Additional Information

• The role offers a high level of ownership and the opportunity to work on sophisticated commercial, data licensing, privacy, AI, product, and strategic partnership issues.
• The legal team is closely integrated with business leaders and involved in key projects across multiple legal areas.
• The organization is committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and promoting a safe, healthy working environment.
• Equal opportunity employer; applicants are considered solely based on qualifications without regard to disability or need for accommodation.