The Senior Contracts Manager will lead the commercial contracting function, managing a diverse portfolio of agreements while advising cross-functional teams on risk and negotiation strategies.
Senior Commercial Counsel – Remote (991-SLS)
📜 Description
- Lead commercial counsel for the Go-to-Market team, structuring and negotiating enterprise agreements involving AI services, PaaS, SaaS, and IaaS.
- Provide business-focused guidance on risk allocation and legal requirements to Sales and stakeholders.
- Build and improve commercial legal infrastructure, including templates and contract lifecycle management tools.
- Partner with Finance, Sales, and Operations on Quote-to-Cash processes and legal tooling improvements.
- Advise on marketing and communications, addressing legal and regulatory risks.
- Participate in special projects with senior leadership and cross-functional teams.
🛠️ Requirements
- Approximately 8+ years of legal experience, including significant in-house experience handling complex commercial transactions in the technology sector.
- Proven experience structuring and negotiating sophisticated enterprise and partnership agreements, ideally involving enterprise software, cloud services, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, or AI offerings.
- Experience building and scaling commercial legal processes and infrastructure, including templates, playbooks, CLM systems, and legal operations workflows.
- Strong business judgment and negotiation skills, with the ability to assess legal and commercial risk and translate complex issues into practical advice.
- Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Sales/GTM and other cross-functional stakeholders and senior leadership.
- Proactive, collaborative, low-ego approach and comfort taking substantial ownership in a fast-paced environment.
- Familiarity with AI-related regulatory trends, marketing and advertising law, or other emerging technology issues is a plus.
- J.D. from an accredited law school and active bar admission in at least one U.S. state.
Full job description
Our client, an innovative publicly traded cloud infrastructure and AI compute company in an exciting stage of growth, has exclusively retained Solutus Legal Search to assist in its search for a Senior Commercial Counsel. Reporting to the Associate General Counsel, this attorney will serve as a key legal partner to the company’s sales organization, negotiating sophisticated commercial agreements and helping build a scalable go-to-market legal function.
This is a high-impact role within a small, dynamic legal team at the forefront of cloud computing and artificial intelligence. The attorney will work closely with sales leadership and senior stakeholders across the business on complex transactions while helping develop the processes and tools needed to support continued growth.
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