Commercial Counsel

Databricks Databricks · Data AI · Seattle, WA +1 · Legal

Experienced commercial attorney to join Databricks' growing commercial and go-to-market legal team. Responsible for reviewing and negotiating customer agreements and providing legal support for Databricks' revenue-generating activities. Requires 4+ years of experience in complex technology transactions, SaaS commercial transactions, and counseling on legal issues related to data privacy, information security, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property.

What you'd actually do

  1. Become an important member of the commercial and go-to-market legal team responsible for reviewing and negotiating commercial customer agreements.
  2. Cultivate strong relationships with field sales by providing sound, strategic counsel to close sales transactions and support ongoing go-to-market efforts.
  3. Help maintain and update our legal agreements, ensuring that terms and internal policies are positioned to continue enabling rapid revenue growth and maintaining long-term stability for the company.
  4. Serve as a solutions-oriented business partner by providing pragmatic, sound legal counsel to internal Databricks clients and our growing customer base based on your understanding of Databricks' technology, product portfolio, information security architecture, and data privacy/compliance policies.
  5. Work cross-functionally with our business partners (e.g., Finance, Information Security, Product, and Privacy) to align, communicate, and enforce applicable policies and controls to our global contracting processes.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of relevant commercial legal transactional experience
  • Meaningful experience negotiating SaaS commercial transactions
  • Strong knowledge/experience counseling on legal issues related to data privacy, information security, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property
  • JD and good standing to practice law in the relevant jurisdiction
  • Experience drafting, negotiating, and closing complex software sell-side transactions

Nice to have

  • Experience working for and/or supporting cloud-based software companies
  • Understanding of consumption/commit-based business models and the quarterly sales cadence
  • Proven ability to successfully navigate and counsel on complex legal issues while balancing and/or mitigating material risk
  • Able to prioritize competing demands and be responsive to client expectations in a fast-paced environment within a limited time period
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
  • Growth mindset, strong attention to detail, excellent critical thinking, and problem-solving abilities
  • Teaming approach with a focus on building a strong interlock with clients, business partners, and key stakeholders

What the JD emphasized

  • strong knowledge/experience counseling on legal issues related to data privacy, information security, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property
  • Demonstrated experience drafting, negotiating, and closing complex software sell-side transactions and a strong understanding of contractual issues related to information security, data privacy, artificial intelligence, and intellectual property