Senior Corporate Counsel 1 - Commercial

Snowflake Snowflake · Data AI · NY-New York, United States · Legal

This role is for a Senior Corporate Counsel specializing in commercial transactions for a SaaS company. The candidate will partner with sales teams, negotiate agreements, provide legal advice, manage risk, and support process improvements, including the use of AI tools. Experience with regulated customers and generative AI offerings is a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Work closely and partner with Sales teams on SaaS transactions that drive company revenue
  2. Structure, negotiate, and close complex sales transactional agreements
  3. Provide sound advice and guidance on legal and business-related issues to senior business leaders
  4. Manage risk and ensure business and compliance needs are accurately reflected in agreements
  5. Support continuous improvements of forms, policies and processes to help streamline, simplify and automate our contracting processes (including through the use of AI tools)

Skills

Required

  • At least 6 years of relevant in-house commercial legal experience, preferably with a successful, high-growth enterprise SaaS company
  • Law degree from an accredited U.S. law school and license to practice law in the U.S.
  • Outstanding analytical, drafting, negotiation, collaboration, written and communication skills
  • Strong background with SaaS-centric issues (e.g., revenue recognition, tax, security, data privacy, intellectual property), professional services and various go-to-market programs
  • Exceptional and pragmatic organizational, project management, problem-solving and prioritization skills
  • Flexibility and eagerness to work hard in a fast-paced environment and meet tight deadlines (especially at quarter end).
  • The ability to think and execute both strategically and tactically
  • Highly effective interpersonal skills with the ability to work with a wide variety of people at all levels inside and outside the organization
  • Service-oriented, responsive, professional and strong integrity

Nice to have

  • Experience working with highly regulated cloud customers (e.g., FinServ, healthcare, etc.)
  • experience supporting the sale of generative AI offerings (and negotiation of associated terms)
  • Familiarity with contract lifecycle management (CLM) solutions and AI-enabled tools

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-native thinkers
  • reinvent how they work
  • treating AI as a high-trust collaborator
  • accelerate your impact
  • rapidly test emerging capabilities
  • discover simpler, more powerful ways to deliver results
  • support continuous improvements of forms, policies and processes to help streamline, simplify and automate our contracting processes (including through the use of AI tools)
  • supporting the sale of generative AI offerings