Counsel, Commercial Transactions

Posting Type

Remote/Hybrid

Job Overview

Primary Objective: Draft, review, negotiate, and advise on a broad range of customer-facing and strategic commercial transactions, with a primary focus on SaaS, software licensing, go to market arrangements, cloud services, AI-enabled offerings, data processing, and other commercial arrangements.

Secondary Objective: Partner cross-functionally with Sales, Partner, Customer Success, Security, Finance, Procurement, and other business stakeholders to enable growth, manage legal risk, develop scalable contracting processes, and support strategic initiatives.

Job Description and Requirements

Welcome to a different kind of legal team.

We don't slow business down - we help it move forward. This is a team of legal professionals who are as invested in outcomes as the business teams we support. We're looking for an attorney who is excited to work at the intersection of law and business - someone who is motivated to help find a path forward using their legal expertise and by collaborating with others. You draft and negotiate with confidence, you're energized by complexity, and you want to bring solutions to the table. The ideal candidate looks at issues like puzzles to solve, knows how to turn ambiguity into clarity, surfaces issues early, and comes ready with recommendations. You treat process improvement as a competitive advantage and approach every challenge with a positive, collaborative instinct. If you're a critical thinker with a genuine love for the craft of legal work, this is your team.

Role Responsibilities

• Lead customer, procurement, strategic commercial negotiations,transactions,and technology-related legal work by drafting, reviewingand negotiating software, SaaS and hybrid, cloud services, AI-related offerings, and strategic partnership agreements. Collaborate with the sales, finance, security, ITand compliance teams to provide timelydeliverables, clarify expectationsand problem-solve; managing stakeholder and customer communications.

• Be a reliable and trusted advisor to our internal stakeholders by providing legal advice and business counsel on commercial, and operational legal issues, as well as providing timely and accurate responses, and negotiating a challenging volume of contracts - with issues ranging from straight-forward to complex. Identifythe issues and then solveforthem.

• Engage with our customers - make sure they feel listened to and heard, and above all, deliver.

• Suggest and work on improvements in processes, e.g.new standard forms or variations to enhance efficiency and align tobusiness and product requirements.

• Exhibit agility and enjoyment working with AI legal technology tools by thriving on the efficiency they create- be flexible about trying out new ones.

• Supportstrategic pricing initiatives, pricing governance projects, and commercial model optimization efforts, while partnering with Finance, Global Business Operations, and business stakeholders

• Participate in our internal approval workflow system, prioritize contracts, and respond to questions from stakeholders and clients.

• Skilled knowledge working with AI tools (including legal technology tools), Microsoft O365, Salesforceand Ironclad.

Preferred qualifications:

• Four (4) to six (6) years of relevant experience in-house and/or at a law firm supporting technology transactions.

• Required: Experience negotiating SaaS, software, cloud services, professional services, data processing, and enterprise commercial agreements.

• Required: Experience supporting complex commercial contracting environments.

• Understanding oftechnology, including legal technology, cloud services, software licensing models, information security, privacy, intellectual property, and regulatory considerations.

• Required: Experience supporting AI-enabled products, and emerging technology issues.

• Required: Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Required: Intelligence, flexibility, creativity, diligence, resourcefulness, responsiveness, and strong communicationsskills.

• Desirable but not required: Basic knowledge of data privacy issues and common practices in a SaaS context involving the security and processing of customer data that may include personal information.

• Desirable but not required: Experience with government technology procurement contracting, including at state, federal and local levels, includingGSA, SEWP, and FAR; basic knowledge of FedRAMP and application to SaaS offerings and operations.

• Desirable but not required: Understanding ofsoftware development, computer technology, SaaS infrastructure and services, open-source communities, and intellectual property concepts and laws.

• JD degree from an accredited law school and license to practice in the United States

• Ability to research and analyze legal issues

• Solid proficiencywith AI tools, legal technology tools, MS Officeand legal research platforms and tools. Familiarity with Salesforce, Ironclad and Asana.

Minimum qualifications:

• Juris Doctor from an accredited law school.

• Active bar membership in good standing

• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

• Intelligence, flexibility, creativity, diligence, responsiveness, and strong communicationsskills.

• Reasonable exposure to computer and software technology concepts.

• Solid proficiencywith MS Office, Salesforce, and Contract Management Software

Relativity is committed to competitive, fair, and equitable compensation practices.

This position is eligible for total compensation which includes a competitive base salary, an annual performance bonus, and long-term incentives.

The expected salary range for this role is betweenfollowing values:

The final offered salary will be based on several factors, including but not limited to the candidate's depth of experience, skill set, qualifications, and internal pay equity. Hiring at the top end of the range would not be typical, to allow for future meaningful salary growth in this position.

Required Skills: