Description:
Role Summary:We are looking for a super sharp, highly-motivated, hard-working, team-spirited, business-minded attorney with commercial contracting experience to join our commercial legal team. This job will involve interfacing with our commercial (sales) team to provide creative, proactive and pragmatic legal guidance and white-glove deal support. We are looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, with the ability to capture complex legal and business concepts clearly, concisely and to stay calm under pressure. We strongly prefer candidates who are able to be based in Little Rock or Boston.
Key Responsibilities:
- Negotiate and draft a wide variety of commercial agreements including terms of service agreements, data processing agreements, services schedules, and some bespoke commercial agreements;
- Align with Data Ethics team to provide tangible advice to commercial stakeholders on data privacy issues arising in commercial transactions;
- Collaborate cross-functionally with internal stakeholders to drive commercial transactions to close;
- Support the continuous improvement of standard form contracts and legal processes
Key Minimum Requirements:
- A JD degree and admission to at least one state bar.
- 5-7 years of hands-on experience drafting commercial contracts and providing legal guidance to commercial business teams, which can be obtained through working at an in-house legal department (experience in an Adtech/Martech, SaaS, data, or similar technology company is an advantage) or handling similar matters at a law firm.
- Self-motivation, an aptitude for technology, quick-learning abilities, proactiveness, and an eagerness to explore the business and technology domains.
- Being comfortable with ambiguity, multi-tasking, hard work, and independence.
- Excellent communication skills, both internally and externally.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- A customer service mindset and prioritizing the customer's needs.
- A sense of humor and a positive attitude to maintain a healthy work environment and foster positive relationships.
- Grit and resilience to handle challenging situations and persevere through obstacles with no drama.
